Chương 2 Thông tư 03/2011/TT-BXD: Kiểm định và giám định

Chapter II

INSPECTION AND ASSESSMENT

Article 7. Requirements on capability of inspection organizations

1. For a legal entity: Being an organization lawfully established and having the function of inspection.

2. For a quality management system:

a/ Having focal units to monitor and examine inspection activities under contracts;

b/ Having a plan on and measures of controlling inspection quality, covering:

- Process of inspection for each subject;

- Measures of controlling collected figures to serve inspection work;

- Plan on organization of quality experimentation and inspection;

- Process of internal control in every step of inspection and takeover check of final inspection results before disclosure.

c/ Having processes of compiling and managing related dossiers and documents in the course of inspection and issuing documents in the course of inspection, written notices of inspection results and written replies to involved parties' Complaints about inspection results.

3/ Capability conditions:

a/ Capability: Having sufficient personnel, physical foundations and equipment for conducting activities involved in inspection services, including:

- At least 3 employees possessing a university or higher degree in a major relevant to inspection work, who have inspection expertise and labor contracts of an indefinite term. Persons in charge of inspection work must have at least 10 years' experience of working in the construction sector and be capable of taking charge of designing works or supervising construction suitable to types and grades of to-be-inspected works and contents;

- A specialized construction laboratory which is duly accredited and capable of performing tests for inspection.

b/ Experience:

- For inspection of works or work items: Having conducted inspection of at least 1 work among other works of the same type and the same or higher grade or 2 works among other Works of the same type and the same or immediately lower grade;

- For inspection for identifying mechanical, physical and chemical specifications of work parts, construction products or materials (inspection of concrete intensity of the structure; tightness and waterproofing of materials; inspection to identify the content of cement additives): Having performed similar inspection jobs.

Article 8. Process of inspection and assessment and contents of draft plans on inspection

1. Assessment requested by procedure-conducting agencies or persons shall be conducted under regulations on construction judicial assessment.

2. For other cases of inspection and assessment, the inspection and assessment process includes the following main steps:

a/ The inspection organization shall prepare a draft plan on inspection and submit it to the inspection requester for consideration and approval;

b/ The inspection organization shall conduct the inspection according to the approval plan;

c/ The inspection organization shall make an appraisal and conclusion report according to the inspection contract, then send it to the inspection requester.

In case assessment is conducted at the request of a state management agency, the inspection requester shall forward the appraisal and conclusion report to such agency, which shall receive the report and send a report receipt, made according to a form provided in Appendix 1 to this Circular (not printed herein), to the inspection requester within 1 day after receiving the report (the time of report receipt is the time determined according to the postmark affixed by the sending post office).

3. A draft plan on inspection contains the following principal details:

a/ Inspection purposes and requirements, contents to be inspected, inspection process and method;

b/ Technical regulations and standards applicable to the inspection;

c/ List of inspectors and the person in charge of the inspection; information on inspectors' capability;

d/ Main equipment and laboratories used for inspection;

e/ Expenses for and planned duration of inspection;

f/ Other conditions for inspection.

Article 9. Inspection expenses

1. Inspection expenses shall be determined in cost estimates under regulations on management of construction investment expenses and based on the work volume of the approved plan.

2. Inspection expenses include some or all the following expenses:

a/ Expenses for drafting a plan on inspection;

b/ Expenses for surveying the actual state of construction works, work items or parts;

c/ Expenses for taking experimental samples and experimentation expense;

d/ Expenses for examining dossiers and documents;

e/ Expenses for calculation, verification, appraisal, making of reports and conclusions;

f/ Costs of transportation;

g/ Other necessary expenses and costs as stipulated.