Quality
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BIM Coordination
The disciplined process of combining the 3D models produced by design and trade contractors, detecting conflicts, and resolving them in a virtual environment before steel, ductwork, or pipe is fabricated and installed.
Concrete Cube Testing
The sampling, curing and crushing regime that proves a concrete pour actually reached its design strength — and the auditable chain of custody that makes those results defensible.
Jidoka
The lean principle of 'autonomation' — building quality into the process by empowering people and machines to stop the line the moment a defect is detected, rather than passing the problem downstream.
Non-Conformance Report (NCR)
A formal record of work that does not meet the specification, the drawings, or an approved procedure — logged, dispositioned, closed out and trended to expose systemic quality problems.
Non-Functional Requirements
The quality attributes a system must exhibit — performance, reliability, security, scalability, accessibility — that often determine success or failure more decisively than functional features.
Quality Gate
A formal checkpoint at which work is evaluated against pre-defined criteria and either passed forward, paused for rework, or stopped — preventing defects from flowing into later, more expensive stages.
Quality Management
The planned set of activities by which an organisation ensures deliverables meet requirements through prevention, assurance, and control.
Snagging Process
The systematic identification, logging, and closure of minor defects on a construction project before handover — the industry's most under-appreciated cost centre.