The sample approval process serves as a critical quality control checkpoint in construction projects, ensuring that materials are suitable, compliant, and aligned with the project's design and performance criteria from the outset.

The individuals or parties responsible for signing off on samples can vary depending on the project and its specific requirements. Some stakeholders who might be involved in the sample approval process are:

A typical sample approval form in the construction industry serves as a formal document to record the review and approval of materials or products before they are used in a project. The key components commonly found in a sample approval form:

All of these details can be captured within Visibuild, keeping all of the project's quality documentation in one place. This article will outline the key steps that are important for the process.

Creating this sample approval form at the company level will ensure consistency across your business as it will have all of the minimum requirements your company requires for samples.

It is at the project level that project specific details are added in

Now that the template has been imported at project level, it is important that it is updated to reflect the project stakeholders responsible for signing off on samples.

Key things to note/remember whilst updating this template is to ensure you have:

Using Visibuild's Inspection Tracker allows project teams to track the overall approval status of every sample raised on the project

Using Visibuild's QR codes allows project teams to print out each samples relevant code and stick the physical samples. As these QR Codes are static, you can scan this code at any point in time throughout the life cycle of the project and it will take you to the approval form, giving you the details of who it was approved by and when it was actually approved.

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