matt morley, coffey - qa testing – where failure meets success!

Major Roads Projects

Conference

QA – Where failure meets

success

March 2014

Failure meets success - QA in major road projects

Coffey Testing – X-SL Presentation

2 February 2014

Failure

The state or condition of not

meeting a desirable or intended

objective


Success

As measured by attainment of an

intended objective

…or don’t do anything that wouldn’t

make you mommy proud!

(H.J Jackson Jnr)

3 March 2014 Major Road Projects Conference


a) Avoid re-work or reconstruction

b) Reduce Delays

c) Improve asset performance


Eddie Eddie

Finish on budget

Finish on time

Who cares?


• 90 % of all passenger travel in Australia is by

road

• Network of > 800,000 km of highway and roads

• $6.4 billion spent on road maintenance and

repair

• Congestion could cost up to $20 billion by 2020

• 145 of 226 fatalities in NSW involved speeding

• A further 61 involved alcohol &/or driver fatigue

• Poor road surface conditions contribute to the

road this toll.


Failure Meets Success - Balancing Time, Money and Quality

1. Provide a smooth, skid resistant and drained surface

3. Transmit stresses to the foundation material

2. Minimise fatigue and deterioration of the pavement materials

3. Failure due to inadequate bearing capacity of the foundation materials

1. Failure due to inadequate quality

control during construction.

2. Failure of materials due to environmental exposure

4. Failure of constituent materials due to cyclical traffic loading

The four modes of Failure

Failure meets success - balancing time, money and quality

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1. Failure due to inadequate

quality control during

construction

March 2014 Major Road Projects Conference

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2. Failure of materials due to

environmental exposure

3. Failure due to

inadequate bearing

capacity of the

foundation materials

4. Failure of constituent

materials due to cyclical

traffic loading.


1. Accreditation does not guarantee credibility

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2. Non credible vendors can significantly reduce prices

3. Price is a major selection criterion for vendor selection on many road projects

Loss making

Tester 3

Tester 1

Tester 4

Tester 5

Tester 6

Tester 2

Tester 1 – “To all you budding materials technicians out

there, please see the photo below.. This is all you need

to become a world wide testing pro”

Tester 2 – “The f***ing most easiest job in the world

even retards can do it as you can see”

Tester 4 – “You ain’t taken a pic of the most important

device ever…The heel . No technician can do there job

properly until they have mastered the heel test”

Tester 5 – “45 hilfs in 15 minutes”

Tester 6 – “Haha 5 **** employees have liked so far (7 if

you count me and ****** as former employees)”



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