Engineering OCT and Quality Assurance/Control
What is a OCT?
ARE HIGHLY QUALIFIED COMPANIES FROM THE TECHNICAL POINT OF VIEW OF PROJECT CONTROL AND EXECUTION OF WORKS.
They arise from the need of insurance companies for an EXTERNAL Technical Control of the Project and Execution of the risk they insure.
Their purpose is to carry out specific Quality Controls for obtaining a Decennial or Triennial Insurance by the developer, which covers the future owners of the property.
The main benefits of hiring a Technical Control Organization are the following:
- Ensuring the work is insured.
- Avoiding additional complications and costs due to construction or design defects at the end of the construction process.
- Significantly reducing the potential anomalies or defects in the following years.
- Detecting existing anomalies.
When is an OCT needed?
OCT SERVICES ARE BOTH MANDATORY AND ADVISABLE.
MANDATORY OCT
The Building Regulation Law (LOE) of 1999 mandates the Decennial Insurance for Damages affecting the structure for buildings intended for residential use (excluding self-promotion).
Since Decennial Insurance is mandatory, the involvement of the Technical Control Organization (OCT) is also obligatory in most cases and according to the requirements of insurance companies.
RECOMMENDED OCT
There is the possibility of contracting additional insurance policies where the involvement of the OCT would also be necessary, according to the insurer’s requirements.
- Decennial structural stability insurance for residential buildings not intended for housing.
- Triennial waterproofing insurance for roofs and facades.
- Additional insurance related to installations, habitability, and construction elements.
How do we do OCT and Quality Assurance/Control?
WE PROVIDE EXTENSIVE SUPERVISION DURING THE PRELIMINARY PHASE AND DURING THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS.
GLOVAL, as Technical Control Body checks compliance with the functionality, safety and living standards required by the Spanish Building Law and the technical regulations for each building work, checking the quality of the project, its execution, the materials used and tests results.
We prepare the reports for each building process.
Furthermore, with all our experience as OCT and as a Quality Control Entity, we are able to offer our services in supervising and examining execution projects before hiring the building work and running quality checks during the actual building process.
01
Documentation
We request the Execution Project. Including the annexes of structure calculation.
As well as the necessary documentation in reference to the additional insurance policies contracted.
02
Project Review
The execution project is revised at the structural level.
In the event that additional insurance is contracted, the pertinent studies will be carried out.
03
Inspection
We carry out the necessary site inspection visits according to our own methodology depending on the characteristics of the work.
We have immediate availability to guarantee the continuity of the work.
04
Reports
Immediate communications in the event of detecting anomalies during the work execution phase and review of the solutions adopted.
We prepare standardized reports for insurance companies.
Frequently Asked Questions
We develop a supervision concept called VTC (Full Quality Assurance).
Our work involves, among other tasks:
- Revising and analysing the documents that describe the land specifications.
- Interpreting geotechnical surveys and checking that the recommendations match the solutions of the project.
- Technical inspection of the plans and other technical documents of the execution project with reference to the essential building work, foundations and structure.
- Analysing the risks derived from the essential building work.
- Analysing the walls and roofs for stability of the essential building work.
- Technical inspection of the water-tightness of the floor, façade and roof.
- Inspecting the laying of foundations and structure.
- Inspecting and interpreting the tests on materials.
- Inspecting the building of the walls and roofs.
- Inspecting the sealing for water-tightness (basement, façade and roof).
- Inspecting and interpreting the tests on water-tightness.
- Present for the delivery of building units subject to Technical Control.
For the tasks involved in Quality Assurance/Control, we establish the guidelines required for an external and independent Quality Assurance/Control:
- Project control, we check and examine the suitability of the solutions adopted.
- Quality assurance on materials, equipment and systems according to current regulations. We check their suitability according to the Technical Specifications of the Building Project and the specifications of the Site Manager.
- Inspection during the building work checking that the work matches the Building Project specifications and any changes the Site Manager may have made according to the Technical Building Code (CTE).
- Inspection of the installations at the delivery and of the assembly and use of equipment.
In order to take out a ten-year insurance that is required by Spanish Law 38/1999 of 5 November on Building Planning, insurance companies require a series of reports that will guarantee the quality of the development. The Technical Control Body (OCT, Organismo de Control Técnico) supervises that the Spanish Building Law standards are met and the Quality Control Entities (ECC, Entidades de Control de Calidad) are the companies in charge of enforcing Spanish Royal Decree 410/2010 of 31 March that develops the standards required in the activities performed by quality assurance/control entities and test labs.
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