2E 01 40 00 Quality Requirements.pdf
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This document is a section of specifications for Quality Requirements related to a construction project for the 911th Airlift Wing. The key details are:
The specifications outline the administrative and procedural requirements for quality assurance and quality control on the project. It covers testing and inspection services required to verify compliance with contract requirements, as well as Contractor responsibilities for quality control. Specific requirements include preconstruction testing, establishing test sections, achieving positive drainage, and repairing and protecting any work found deficient. The project involves repairing deteriorated asphalt roadways and parking lots through milling, paving, and full depth replacement as outlined in the related federal contract opportunity. The solicitation number is FA671224B0002, issued by the Department of the Air Force Reserve Command for the Repair Base Roads and Pavement project.
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Construction Bid Set
911th AIRLIFT WING QUALITY REQUIREMENTS JLSS 24-9991A
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SECTION 01 40 00
QUALITY REQUIREMENTS
PART 1 GENERAL
RELATED DOCUMENTS
A. Drawings and general provisions of the Contract, including General and Supplementary
Conditions and other Division 01 Specification Sections, apply to this Section.
SCOPE OF WORK
A. This Section includes administrative and procedural requirements for quality assurance and quality control.
B. Testing and inspecting services are required to verify compliance with requirements specified or indicated. These services do not relieve Contractor of responsibility for compliance with the Contract Document requirements.
1. Specific quality-control requirements for individual construction activities are specified in the Sections that specify those activities. Requirements in those Sections may also cover production of standard products.
2. Specified tests, inspections, and related actions do not limit Contractor's quality-control procedures that facilitate compliance with the Contract Document requirements.
3. Requirements for Contractor to provide quality-control services required by Contracting
Officer are not limited by provisions of this Section.
C. See individual Specification Sections for specific test and inspection requirements.
D. This Section requires taking quality related actions during design, fabrication, and installation of products, materials, and systems. Completed work shall carry a minimum 365-day manufacturers and installers warranty from date of Substantial Completion, unless otherwise specified in other Specification Sections.
DEFINITIONS
A. Quality-Assurance Services: Activities, actions, and procedures performed before and during execution of the Work to guard against defects and deficiencies and ensure that proposed construction complies with requirements.
B. Quality-Control Services: Tests, inspections, procedures, and related actions during and after execution of the Work to evaluate that completed construction complies with requirements.
C. Mockups: Full-size, physical example assemblies to illustrate finishes and materials. Mockups are used to verify selections made under Sample submittals, to demonstrate appearance and, where indicated, qualities of materials and execution, and to review construction, coordination, testing, or operation; they are not Samples.
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D. Testing Agency: An entity engaged to perform specific tests, inspections, or both. Testing laboratory shall mean the same as testing agency.
SUBMITTALS
A. Qualification Data: For testing agencies specified in "Quality Assurance" Article to demonstrate their capabilities and experience. Include proof of qualifications in the form of a recent report on the inspection of the testing agency by a recognized authority.
B. Schedule of Tests and Inspections: Prepare in tabular form and include the following:
1. Specification Section number and title.
2. Description of test and inspection.
3. Identification of applicable standards.
4. Identification of test and inspection methods.
5. Number of tests and inspections required.
6. Time schedule or time span for tests and inspections.
7. Entity responsible for performing tests and inspections.
8. Requirements for obtaining samples.
9. Unique characteristics of each quality-control service.
C. Reports: Prepare and submit certified written reports that include the following:
1. Date of issue.
2. Project title and number.
3. Name, address, and telephone number of testing agency.
4. Dates and locations of samples and tests or inspections.
5. Names of individuals making tests and inspections.
6. Description of the Work and test and inspection method.
7. Identification of product and Specification Section.
8. Complete test or inspection data.
9. Test and inspection results and an interpretation of test results.
10. Ambient conditions at time of sample taking and testing and inspecting.
11. Comments or professional opinion on whether tested or inspected Work complies with the Contract Document requirements.
12. Name and signature of laboratory inspector.
13. Recommendations on retesting and reinspecting.
D. Permits, Licenses, and Certificates: For Contracting Officer’s records, submit copies of permits, licenses, certifications, inspection reports, releases, jurisdictional settlements, notices, receipts for fee payments, judgments, correspondence, records, and similar documents, established for compliance with standards and regulations bearing on performance of the Work.
QUALITY ASSURANCE
A. Factory-Authorized Service Representative Qualifications: An authorized representative of manufacturer who is trained and approved by manufacturer to inspect installation of manufacturer's products that are similar in material, design, and extent to those indicated for this Project.
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B. Installer Qualifications: A firm or individual experienced in installing, erecting, or assembling work similar in material, design, and extent to that indicated for this Project, whose work has resuted in construction with a record of successful in-service performance.
C. Manufacturer Qualifications: A firm experienced in manufacturing products or systems similar to those indicated for this Project and with a record of successful in-service performance.
D. Testing Agency Qualifications: An agency with the experience and capability to conduct testing and inspecting indicated, as documented by ASTM E 548, and that specializes in types of tests and inspections to be performed.
E. Mockups: Before installing portions of the Work requiring mockups, build mockups for each form of construction and finish required to comply with the following requirements, using materials indicated for the completed Work:
1. Build mockups in location and of size indicated or, if not indicated, as directed by
Contracting Officer.
2. Notify Contracting Officer (7) seven calendar days in advance of dates and times when mockups will be constructed.
3. Demonstrate the proposed range of aesthetic effects and workmanship.
4. Obtain Contracting Officer’s approval of mockups before starting work, fabrication, or construction.
5. Maintain mockups during construction in an undisturbed condition as a standard for judging the completed Work.
6. Demolish and remove mockups when directed, unless otherwise indicated.
F. Preconstruction Testing: Testing agency shall perform, preconstruction testing for compliance with specified requirements for performance and test methods.
1. Contractor responsibilities include the following:
a. Provide test specimens and assemblies representative of proposed materials and construction. Provide sizes and configurations of assemblies to adequately demonstrate capability of product to comply with performance requirements.
b. Submit specimens in a timely manner with sufficient time for testing and analyzing results to prevent delaying the Work.
c. Fabricate and install test assemblies using installers who will perform the same tasks for Project.
d. When testing is complete, remove assemblies; do not reuse materials on Project.
2. Testing Agency Responsibilities: Submit a certified written report of each test, inspection, and similar quality-assurance service to Contracting Officer, with copy to Contractor.
Interpret tests and inspections and state in, each report whether tested and inspected work complies with or deviates from the Contract Documents.
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3. TEST SECTIONS: Before proceeding with the work, the Contractor shall demonstrate the processes and materials to be used a minimum of 24 hours prior to proceeding with the work to allow for resolution of any questions or clarifications. Test sections shall include the following:
a. Joint Cleaning and Sealing. Include a minimum 50 ft length. All preparations and processes to be followed for the contract work must be demonstrated in the completion of the test section.
4. Positive Drainage: A horizontal surface included in this scope of work will be placed such that the surface will achieve positive drainage and water will, in accordance with existing drainage patterns, both freely flow onto the surface and will freely flow off and away from the surface to existing rain drainage systems. No water shall be allowed to “pond” or collect on that surface due to its profile, edging or joint filling treatments.
Contractor shall completely remove and replace any work which does not conform to positive drainage requirements.
QUALITY CONTROL
A. Contractor Responsibilities: Unless otherwise indicated, provide quality-control services specified and required by Contracting Officer.
1. Engage a qualified testing agency to perform these quality-control services.
2. Notify testing agencies at least 24 hours in advance of time when Work that requires testing or inspecting will be performed.
3. Where quality-control services are indicated as Contractor’s responsibility, submit a certified written report, in duplicate, of each quality-control service.
4. Testing and inspecting requested by Contractor and not required by the Contract
Documents are Contractor’s responsibility.
5. Submit additional copies of each written report directly to Contracting Officer, when they so direct.
B. Special Tests and Inspections: Contractor will engage a testing agency to conduct special tests and inspections required by Contracting Officer.
1. Testing agency will notify Contracting Officer promptly of irregularities and deficiencies observed in the Work during performance of its services.
2. Testing agency will submit a certified written report of each test, inspection, and similar quality-control service to Contracting Officer.
3. Testing agency will submit a final report of special tests and inspections at Substantial
Completion, which includes a list of unresolved deficiencies.
4. Testing agency will interpret tests and inspections and state in each report whether tested and inspected work complies with or deviates from the Contract Documents.
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5. Testing agency will retest and reinspect corrected work.
C. Retesting and Reinspecting: Regardless of whether original tests or inspections were Contractor’s responsibility, provide quality-control services, including retesting and reinspecting, for construction that revised or replaced Work that failed to comply with requirements established by the Contract Documents.
D. Testing Agency Responsibilities: Cooperate with Contracting Officer and Contractor in performance of duties. Provide qualified personnel to perform required tests and inspections.
1. Notify Contracting Officer and Contractor promptly of irregularities or deficiencies observed in the Work during performance of its services.
2. Interpret tests and inspections and state in each report whether tested and inspected work complies with or deviates from requirements.
3. Submit a certified written report, in duplicate, of each test, inspection, and similar quality-control service through Contractor.
4. Do not release, revoke, alter, or increase requirements of the Contract Documents or approve or accept any portion of the Work.
5. Do not perform any duties of Contractor.
E. Associated Services: Cooperate with agencies performing required tests, inspections, and similar quality-control services, and provide reasonable auxiliary services as requested. Notify agency sufficiently in advance of operations to permit assignment of personnel. Provide the following:
1. Access to the Work.
2. Incidental labor and facilities necessary to facilitate tests and inspections.
3. Adequate quantities of representative samples of materials that require testing and inspecting. Assist agency in obtaining samples.
4. Facilities for storage and field-curing of test samples.
5. Delete first subparagraph below if not required or common practice in Project vicinity.
6. Delivery of samples to testing agencies.
7. Preliminary design mix proposed for use for material mixes that require control by testing agency.
8. Security and protection for samples and for testing and inspecting equipment at Project site.
F. Coordination: Coordinate sequence of activities to accommodate required quality-assurance and quality-control services with a minimum of delay and to avoid necessity of removing and replacing construction to accommodate testing and inspecting.
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1. Schedule times for tests, inspections, obtaining samples, and similar activities.
PART 2 PRODUCTS (NOT APPLICABLE)
PART 3 EXECUTION
REPAIR AND PROTECTION
A. General: On completion of testing, inspecting, sample taking, and similar services, repair damaged construction and restore substrates and finishes.
1. Comply with the Contract Document requirements for Section 01 73 89 "Cutting and
Patching."
B. Protect construction exposed by or for quality-control service activities.
C. Repair and protection are Contractor's responsibility, regardless of the assignment of responsibility for quality-control services.
END OF SECTION
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