About ConSIG CWG
A collaborative group aimed at improving quality within the construction industry.
The Construction Special Interest Group, Competency Working Group (ConSIG CWG) of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) is a group of construction representatives including consultants, contractors, subcontractors and client organisations who are committed to working collaboratively to improve quality across the Construction Industry with specific focus on elements related to competency.
The articles published on Designing Buildings Wiki include but are not limited to:
- 5 Whys
- A guide to the 5S Methodology
- Annex SL
- Anti-bribery and Ethics - A Construction Perspective
- Assurance and self-certification
- Auditing management systems
- Building completion
- CDM Regulations: a quality perspective
- Change control: a quality perspective
- Checking and approval in design - a quality management perspective
- Collaboration: a quality management perspective
- Continuous Quality Clues: A New Approach to Quality Control
- Cost of quality (COQ)
- Daily Huddle
- Design Best Practice Self-Assessment Tool
- Design freeze: a quality perspective
- Design: a quality management perspective
- Digital quality management in construction
- Digital transformation
- Failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA)
- Fostering a Quality Culture in Construction
- How to check certification (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 45001, UKAS etc.)
- How to write an inspection and test plan
- Inspection & Test Plan
- Interpersonal Relationships in Auditing
- Lean Construction - A Quality Perspective
- Learning from lessons: a quality perspective
- Lifts and Escalators: A Quality Perspective
- Mobilisation to site: a quality perspective
- Off-Site Manufacturing
- Process and Flowcharting / Mapping (Including Standardisation)
- Quality Benchmarks - A Construction Perspective
- Quality checklist
- Quality culture and behaviours
- Quality in the Nuclear sector
- Quality management systems (QMS) - beyond the documentation
- Quality manuals and quality plans
- Quality tools: fishbone diagram
- Risk assessment: a quality perspective
- Stakeholder management: a quality perspective
- Structural steelwork: a quality perspective
- Successful Audits - Techniques for Everyone
- Temporary Works Design - A Quality Management Perspective
- The importance of welding assurance
- UKCA and CE marking
- Value Stream Mapping in the Construction Industry
- What is continuous improvement
- Why should quality be important to the construction industry?
Please visit the ConSIG page on the CQI website for further information.
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