Glossary

Inspection and test plan (ITP)

An inspection and test plan is the document that lists, for one activity, each inspection or test to be done, the acceptance criterion and the standard it comes from, the record to be kept, and which party holds a hold point or a witness point at each step.

CONSTRUCTION DEFECT GLOSSARY·UPDATED OCTOBER 2026
Where the word is used

Australian and British quality-management language; an American project may call the same document an inspection plan or a quality control plan. It is the working document behind the project quality plan.

On site

An ITP is written per activity: piling, structural steel, waterproofing, fire doors. The subcontractor signs each step, the builder’s QA signs, and the engineer or client signs the hold points. On paper it is signed in the site office a week after the fact; the value is in signing it at the step, with the evidence.

On the record

How IssuesId holds it

The checks on an ITP can be built once as an IssuesId checklist template and run per location, with the hold points marked. Every answer records who gave it and when, a No raises a linked defect, and the stretch a subcontractor is responsible for can be sent to them as a share link with a due date.

Asked alongside

Two questions people ask

What is an inspection and test plan?
A per-activity document listing each inspection or test, the acceptance criterion and its source standard, the record to be kept, and which party holds a hold or witness point at each step. It is how a project quality plan becomes checks that actually happen on site.
Who signs an ITP?
Usually three parties: the subcontractor doing the work, the builder’s quality or site representative, and at the hold points the engineer, superintendent or client’s representative. The useful record is the one where each signature was made at the step, not at the end of the week.
Related terms

Definitions describe common usage and the usual shape of standard-form contracts. Your contract and your jurisdiction’s building law set the terms that apply to your job. The whole list is at the glossary.

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