Published: December 4, 2024
Quality assurance (QA) on construction projects can quickly go awry if you don’t have the right construction project management tools at your disposal.
Here are some things that can go wrong and how the Forms module on Ctrldoc’s app can help address these risks.
Missing Inspections at Critical Stages
When stakeholders like QA managers, project managers, site managers, project engineers, and installers don’t have the right tools at their fingertips, it can be easy to overlook crucial inspections at key stages or locations in complex projects, especially those with multiple sections.
Missing these inspections increases the risk of unaddressed quality issues that might only become evident later, leading to costly rework.
Having a tool like Forms on hand can help prevent this by providing comprehensive tagging of inspection and test plans (ITPs) to specific locations and stages of the project, ensuring that every inspection is planned and recorded as needed.
Incomplete and Disorganised Documentation
Documentation is crucial for compliance and accountability when delivering a construction project—not only for regulatory authorities but also for stakeholders. However, relying on manual and inconsistent systems can result in incomplete or lost records, creating serious compliance issues, complicating QA audits, and making tracking progress on QA processes unnecessarily difficult.
With a tool like Forms, you can ensure that documentation remains consistent, organised, and centralised, making the data necessary for QA easily accessible and available at every step.
Inaccurate Data Collection Due to Delayed Recording
Many construction projects make the mistake of recording data after inspections have taken place rather than in real time. This approach invites errors, omissions, and forgotten details, which can seriously compromise data integrity and reliability.
Stakeholders on construction projects—such as QA managers, project managers, site managers, project engineers, and installers—need an easily accessible system that allows them to record data in real time. Delaying until later risks inaccuracies.
Forms allows you to record real-time data on-site—even when offline—and syncs it to the cloud once reconnected to ensure accurate and timely records.
Not Effectively Tracking QA Progress
When tracking QA progress manually as a team, it can quickly become difficult to know where you are in the different inspection stages, which inspections are still pending, and which are complete—often leading to scheduling issues and delays.
This lack of visibility makes it tough to identify and prioritise problem areas, creating bottlenecks and complicating the workflow, which in turn increases the likelihood of errors.
On the other hand, having access to a real-time overview of your QA status with visual tracking capabilities allows you to see at a glance where you are in the process, whether tasks are completed, pending, or delayed. This visibility helps you make more accurate and informed decisions.
If you’re interested in exploring the capabilities of Forms from CtrlDoc, contact us today. Our construction project management tools are essential for ensuring smooth and accurate QA management.
