Analysis of the possible impacts of ISO 9001:2015 version changes in the quality management system of construction companies

In General, over the last 15 years the quality management systems of construction companies in Brazil have suffered few changes, even considering the continuous improvement foreseen in ISO 9001. In the 2008 version of ISO 9001, few changes have occurred on the requirements regarding the 2000 version and so there was no need to seek new practices, generating an accommodation on the part of companies that in the last 15 years have kept their practices in relation to quality management. The 2015 version of ISO 9001 published in the month of September brings on your belly, significant modifications that will impulse the construction companies to review their processes and establish new practices to meet new requirements. The impact is not yet being presumed and not respected by most construction companies as they had been granted an adjustment period of up to 3 years by certification bodies (IAF, 2015). However, it is essential that the construction companies to establish a plan of action so that the new requirements should be interpreted and understand perfectly, in order to make possible a simple migration from one model to the other, minimizing possible impacts of these new requests. This work deals with an analysis of the new requirements of ISO 9001:2015 and the possible impacts on the quality management systems of Brazilian construction companies of small and medium-sized businesses. In addition, establish a comparative synthesis of practices
commonly adopted by the construction companies and the difficulties experienced to adapt them to the new requirements of the compliance model.

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ISO 9001:2015, changes in requirements, quality system of construction, impacts of changes