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Officers:
Chair:
Vice Chair:
Past Chair:
Mark Gillgan
Art Dell
Tim Hart
Contact:
Email:   m_k_gilligan@yahoo.com
The Committee is now accepting questions, which we will review and answer at our next meeting. To submit an inquiry, email cqa@seaonc.org. You may either attend the next meeting to participate in the discussion or the committee will respond to your question via email following the meeting.
Next Meeting:
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General Description
The Construction Quality Assurance Committee participates in development of code changes related to inspection practices and advancement of inspection procedures and guidelines. Providing an arena for comment from the structural engineering profession, the Committee defines and updates inspection needs and standards in masonry, concrete, wood and steel construction.
Publications
Guidelines for Special Inspection & Structural Observation, available here.

NEW 2007Guidelines for Welding Procedure Specifications, available here.

DBI form identifying the scope of special inspection, click here.

Charges
  1. Complete aggregate research project for publication. The publication will present information on Bay Area aggregate sources for concrete.
  2. Process the Building Department Survey. The survey polls Bay Area Building Officials with respect to their jurisdiction’s interpretation and enforcement of Special Inspection provisions and requirements for testing of steel moment frame connection types. The survey has been sent out.
  3. Complete a guideline document for special inspection of wood framing. Although the City of San Francisco has had special inspection requirements for wood diaphragms for some years, they have never been included in the UBC or CBC. Engineers tend not to have specific inspection expertise and Testing Lab personnel may not be trained in wood diaphragm inspection or have a good feel for load path in wood framed buildings.
  4. Update the Welding Procedure Specification Guidelines. This document was produced based on the 1996 AWS Structural Welding Code-Steel. The guides will be updated to reflect the requirements of the most recent Code.
  5. QA Code issues. Working with the Structural Standards Committee, SEAOC Code Committee, and NCSEA’s CAC subcommittee on Special Inspection and Structural Observation, propose code changes to Chapter 17 of the IBC and Chapter 38 of NFPA 5000; review and comment on changes proposed by others.
  6. Newsletter articles:
    Continue the series of jobsite reports on specific QA/QC challenges/successes/failures
    Review of NFPA Chapter 38
    Case study of a steel moment frame building with specifications per FEMA 353
  7. Coordinate with the efforts of SEAOSC Quality Assurance Committee. A liaison will be initiated with the QAC from down south.

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