How To Receive Concrete Delivered On Site By A Quality Engineer

I want to write about this topic because I want my fellow quality

engineers to really understand what are our responsibilities. I
have seen some instances that concrete is being delivered on
site, but no quality engineer or quality inspector was checking or
maybe it is neglected.

Concrete arrived on site is one of the first priority to check by a

quality engineer. Checking of concrete delivered on site is one of
the responsibilities of a quality engineer. A consultant on a
project will always seek for a quality engineer to manage the
receipts of concrete upon arrival on site, so it may create an
issue, noting that the concrete arrived at concrete
checkpoint has not been checked by quality engineer.

Here is one of the biggest problems “If” you will not receive the
concrete and get a copy of concrete delivery ticket. You will lose
on logging your concrete actual quantity delivered on site which
is to be collected by the quantity surveyors department from you.
Because this department will track the quantity of materials
delivered per month and use of cost controlling. So it is really
important that you will focus on receiving the arrival of concrete
on site.
Now, here are the step-by-step guide on how to receive delivered
concrete on site in order to avoid losing concrete record,
document and quantity that will create backfire on your
department.

1. Check the delivery ticket of concrete

In the first arrival of fresh concrete or it may even all the arrivals,
you as a designated quality engineer shall receive the concrete
delivery ticket from the driver of a truck mixer or if it is received
by your assistant just get and check if the concrete delivery
ticket conforms to the approved concrete mix design that the
concrete delivered is for.

2. Check the temperature of fresh concrete

After taking the sample of fresh concrete from a truck mixer just
make sure that before making further test, take a temperature of
concrete. See photo above. The temperature of fresh concrete
shall not exceed 30 degrees Celsius.

3. Check the slump test

Actually the slump test should be done every truck delivery and
you should be taking that, but sometimes it depends on the
volume of the concrete program. It is quite exhaustive, if you
have let us say 3,000 cubic meters in one night casting and then
you would check almost 333 trucks if a truck mixer is carrying 9
cubic meters, so it’s quite tedious. In this reason,
the consultant will most probably consider checking alternately
or might be even better randomly.

4. Obtain cube or cylinder sample

If you had just checked the slump test, then tell your assistant to
take the samples for the required tests that mentioned in this
article “Top 6 important quality tests of concrete.”

5. Fill the concrete pour card

When you have completed all the necessary tests of fresh

concrete, the next thing to do is to fill the concrete pour card
with all the data that you have collected. The concrete pour card
shall be kept for reference whenever you will send a concrete
test request to an approved external laboratory, but not only that
you can track the actual quantity of concrete delivered on site.
The concrete pour card shall be maintained and continually use
every concrete casting program regardless of what type of
concrete received on site. It might be asked by a consultant to
submit a concrete pour card. A sample of concrete pour card is
shown below.
 Time of
S/N Date Delivered Time Batched Time of Arrival Location Concrete Gra
completion casting

1 Sept. 20, 2015 7:00 AM 7:40 AM 8:00 AM Slab on Grade C50/20

2 Sept. 20, 2015 7:10 AM 7:50 AM 8:10 AM Slab on Grade C50/20
3 Sept. 20, 2015 7:20 AM 8:00 AM 8:20 AM Slab on Grade C50/20
TOTAL
Now, if you will follow these steps, you will surely comply the
quality procedure on receiving concrete on site and make sure
that all the concrete delivered on site are recorded.