Course Details

Quality Management Systems

Academic Year 2025/26

NWA015 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIR Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. et Ing. Barbora Nečasová, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295837

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Quality – total quality management. Evaluation of the current situation in the building industry.
  • 2. Quality management system (QMS) according to the ČSN EN ISO 9001:2009 standard for the construction of buildings and other civil engineering works. Characteristics. Implementation procedure.
  • 3. Structure of standards. Structure and contents of the QMS documentation for building companies and construction execution – quality manual.
  • 4. Responsibility of company management when introducing a QMS. Inspection and audit of QMS.
  • 5. Management of resources, preparedness through qualifications, education plan and internal personnel training.
  • 6. Product realization – construction execution. Review of contractual requirements. Selection and evaluation of suppliers and building contractors. Measurement devices and their calibration. SW for quality control.
  • 7. QMS documentation – quality plan, inspection and testing plan, technical regulations , inspection and testing procedures. Site diary.
  • 8. Quality monitoring at construction sites, quality records. Storage and warehouse quality requirements.
  • 9. Construction efficiency, QMS audit, safety system audit, supervisor assessment (TDI).
  • 10. Corrective and preventive measures. Elimination of deficiencies. Costs and quality. QMS certification.
  • 11. Higher forms of quality management – KMJ (TQM, Total Quality Management). Characteristic features and factors. EFQM Model.
  • 12. Reengineering – characteristics, changes, contractors, application within a company.
  • 13. Integrated Management System (IMS) in a building company. Evaluation of construction execution from the perspective of quality, environment and occupational safety.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the issues involved in and structure of a quality management system according to ISO 9001.
  • 2. Management of documents and records.
  • 3. Organizational rules in an engineering company, competencies and rights of employees.
  • 4. Quality policy.
  • 5. Proposal of quality goals for an engineering company and its individual parts.
  • 6. Quality plan for construction execution – drafting a proposal for a building contractor.
  • 7. Inspection and test plan for a selected construction proces.
  • 8. Selection and evaluation of suppliers for a building contractor.
  • 9. Internal audit of a the quality management system according to the ČSN ISO 9001:2009 and ČSN ISO 19011.2012 standards.
  • 10. Corrective measures for non-compliance.
  • 11. Proposal of preventive measures for a building contractor.
  • 12. Application of the EFQM model in an engineering company.
  • 13. Evaluation of the assignment and granting of credit.