Design freeze: a quality perspective - Revision history

Designing Buildings at 08:38, 28 October 2020

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Designing Buildings at 07:49, 24 January 2020

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	* CDM regulations: a quality perspective.		* CDM regulations: a quality perspective.
	* Change control: a quality perspective.		* Change control: a quality perspective.
		+	* Cost of quality.
	* Design freeze.		* Design freeze.
	* Digital quality management in construction.		* Digital quality management in construction.

Designing Buildings at 09:27, 19 September 2019

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	Original article written by Keith Hamlyn, reviewed by Tony Hoyle on behalf of the Chartered Quality Institute, Construction Special Interest Group, and accepted for publication by the Competency Working Group on 7 March 2018.		Original article written by Keith Hamlyn, reviewed by Tony Hoyle on behalf of the Chartered Quality Institute, Construction Special Interest Group, and accepted for publication by the Competency Working Group on 7 March 2018.

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−	=== Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki ===	+

	* Assurance and self-certification.		* Assurance and self-certification.
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	* Change control: a quality perspective.		* Change control: a quality perspective.
	* Design freeze.		* Design freeze.
		+	* Digital quality management in construction.
	* How to Write an Inspection and Test Plan.		* How to Write an Inspection and Test Plan.
	* Inspection and Test Plan.		* Inspection and Test Plan.

ConSIG CWG at 13:35, 5 January 2019

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	Original article written by Keith Hamlyn, reviewed by Tony Hoyle on behalf of the Chartered Quality Institute, Construction Special Interest Group, and accepted for publication by the Competency Working Group on 7 March 2018.		Original article written by Keith Hamlyn, reviewed by Tony Hoyle on behalf of the Chartered Quality Institute, Construction Special Interest Group, and accepted for publication by the Competency Working Group on 7 March 2018.

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Designing Buildings at 07:29, 6 November 2018

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		+	* Assurance and self-certification.
	* CDM regulations: a quality perspective.		* CDM regulations: a quality perspective.
	* Change control: a quality perspective.		* Change control: a quality perspective.

Editor at 16:34, 27 June 2018

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	* Lifts and Escalators: A Quality Perspective.		* Lifts and Escalators: A Quality Perspective.
	* Mobilisation to site: a quality perspective.		* Mobilisation to site: a quality perspective.
		+	* Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA).
	* Structural steelwork: a quality perspective.		* Structural steelwork: a quality perspective.
	* Why should quality be important to the construction industry?		* Why should quality be important to the construction industry?

	[[Category:Theory]] [[Category:Design]]		[[Category:Theory]] [[Category:Design]]

Editor at 16:15, 27 June 2018

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−	Change during construction can be expensive and time-consuming. To avoid this, there must be a point in an engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) project or any other design activity when a formal stop is placed on the evolution of the design. This point is known as ‘design freeze’ and marks the end of the formal design effort – or, at least, that is the intention. It forwards a constructible design that can be built on site with no further changes. A preliminary stage to design freeze is ‘design chill’ where the design organisation starts to take formal control over change. It is good practice for design chill and design freeze to take place simultaneously at review points that permit continuation of the works. These are commonly known as ‘gates’. This article explores the gates process as it relates to design chill and design freeze. In terms of the PDCA cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Act), this falls under the heading of ‘check’. Once the design has been frozen, it should enter formal change control (see the article ‘[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Change_control:_a_quality_perspective Change control; a quality perspective]’).	+	Change during construction can be expensive and time-consuming. To avoid this, there must be a point in an engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) project or any other design activity when a formal stop is placed on the evolution of the design. This point is known as ‘design freeze’ and marks the end of the formal design effort – or, at least, that is the intention. It forwards a constructible design that can be built on site with no further changes.
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		+	A preliminary stage to design freeze is ‘design chill’ where the design organisation starts to take formal control over change. It is good practice for design chill and design freeze to take place simultaneously at review points that permit continuation of the works. These are commonly known as ‘gates’.
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		+	This article explores the gates process as it relates to design chill and design freeze. In terms of the PDCA cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Act), this falls under the heading of ‘check’. Once the design has been frozen, it should enter formal change control (see the article ‘[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Change_control:_a_quality_perspective Change control; a quality perspective]’).

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−	Document control, or more correctly, information management, has a vital part to play in the way in which technical information is passed from one organisation to another. ISO 9001 requires that, in simplistic terms, the people who need information have the documents that they need at the pertinent revision. If they have the wrong documents, they will build it wrong – obviously. It is important that information management have proper control over all technical information once it has been formally placed under control. This means that they must be provided with the relevant documentation and that they alone hold responsibility for its issue under control. It should never be part of any organisation’s way of working to provide updates to construction ‘under the counter’, but always formally.	+	Document control, or more correctly, information management, has a vital part to play in the way in which technical information is passed from one organisation to another. ISO 9001 requires that, in simplistic terms, the people who need information have the documents that they need at the pertinent revision. If they have the wrong documents, they will build it wrong – obviously.
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		+	It is important that information management have proper control over all technical information once it has been formally placed under control. This means that they must be provided with the relevant documentation and that they alone hold responsibility for its issue under control. It should never be part of any organisation’s way of working to provide updates to construction ‘under the counter’, but always formally.

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	Original article written by Keith Hamlyn, reviewed by Tony Hoyle on behalf of the Chartered Quality Institute, Construction Special Interest Group, and accepted for publication by the Competency Working Group on 7 March 2018.		Original article written by Keith Hamlyn, reviewed by Tony Hoyle on behalf of the Chartered Quality Institute, Construction Special Interest Group, and accepted for publication by the Competency Working Group on 7 March 2018.

Designing Buildings at 06:04, 15 June 2018

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	* Mobilisation to site: a quality perspective.		* Mobilisation to site: a quality perspective.
	* Structural steelwork: a quality perspective.		* Structural steelwork: a quality perspective.
−	* Why should quality be important to the construction industry.	+	* Why should quality be important to the construction industry?

	[[Category:Theory]] [[Category:Design]]		[[Category:Theory]] [[Category:Design]]

Designing Buildings at 06:04, 15 June 2018

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	* Change control: a quality perspective.		* Change control: a quality perspective.
	* Design freeze.		* Design freeze.
−	* How to Write an Inspection ~~&~~ Test Plan.	+	* How to Write an Inspection and Test Plan.
−	* Inspection ~~&~~ Test Plan.	+	* Inspection and Test Plan.
	* Lifts and Escalators: A Quality Perspective.		* Lifts and Escalators: A Quality Perspective.
	* Mobilisation to site: a quality perspective.		* Mobilisation to site: a quality perspective.

86.149.115.237 at 06:03, 15 June 2018

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−	Change during construction can be expensive and time-consuming. To avoid this, there must be a point in an engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) project or any other design activity when a formal stop is placed on the evolution of the design. This point is known as ‘design freeze’ and marks the end of the formal design effort – or, at least, that is the intention. It forwards a constructible design that can be built on site with no further changes. A preliminary stage to design freeze is ‘design chill’ where the design organisation starts to take formal control over change. It is good practice for design chill and design freeze to take place simultaneously at review points that permit continuation of the works. These are commonly known as ‘gates’. This article explores the gates process as it relates to design chill and design freeze. In terms of the PDCA cycle, this falls under the heading of ‘check’. Once the design has been frozen, it should enter formal change control (see the article ‘[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Change_control:_a_quality_perspective Change control; a quality perspective]’).	+	Change during construction can be expensive and time-consuming. To avoid this, there must be a point in an engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) project or any other design activity when a formal stop is placed on the evolution of the design. This point is known as ‘design freeze’ and marks the end of the formal design effort – or, at least, that is the intention. It forwards a constructible design that can be built on site with no further changes. A preliminary stage to design freeze is ‘design chill’ where the design organisation starts to take formal control over change. It is good practice for design chill and design freeze to take place simultaneously at review points that permit continuation of the works. These are commonly known as ‘gates’. This article explores the gates process as it relates to design chill and design freeze. In terms of the PDCA cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Act), this falls under the heading of ‘check’. Once the design has been frozen, it should enter formal change control (see the article ‘[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Change_control:_a_quality_perspective Change control; a quality perspective]’).

	= The gates process =		= The gates process =
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		+	= Find out more =
		+
		+	=== Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki ===
		+
		+	* CDM regulations: a quality perspective.
		+	* Change control: a quality perspective.
		+	* Design freeze.
		+	* How to Write an Inspection & Test Plan.
		+	* Inspection & Test Plan.
		+	* Lifts and Escalators: A Quality Perspective.
		+	* Mobilisation to site: a quality perspective.
		+	* Structural steelwork: a quality perspective.
		+	* Why should quality be important to the construction industry.

	[[Category:Theory]] [[Category:Design]]		[[Category:Theory]] [[Category:Design]]