Evaluation of the Enforcement of Project Quality Management Plan in Building Construction in Nigeria

Abstract

This study looks at the enforcement of project quality management plan as an antidote to building failure in Nigeria with the view to ascertain whether site supervisors know, possess and implement the enforcement of QMP in
their sites and if any professional body or government agency visits the sites to implement it. Also, the study looks at ways by which the QMP can be enforced on construction sites. The study adopts the survey design. The
population is all the professionals in the construction industry in Abuja, the Federal Capital of Nigeria. Questionnaire and interview were used for data
collection. One hundred (100) copies of the questionnaire are administered and seventy-one (71) recovered from the respondents who are Architects, Civil Engineers, Builders, Quantity Surveyors, Town Planners, Land Surveyors, Estate Surveyors, Electrical Engineers and others. The
administration of the instrument was done using simple randam sampling technique. Findings showed that the quality management plan is neither a document at the development control department nor is it a document at the
site. Over seventy percent of the respondents are not in possession of or are aware of the contents of QMP as it is not part of the documents given to developers when approval is granted. Hence, it is recommended among
others that QMP should be made available to site supervisors to implement and should be made a part of the design/working drawings and documents to be submitted to the Development Control before approval is granted and
from time to time an enforcement team by either Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON) or Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) or both be made to go around to enforce the QMP at construction
sites.