Published by FIDIC in September 2001 as a three-part resource package comprising:

• Guide to Quality Management in the Consulting Engineering Industry
• Guide to the Interpretation and Application of the ISO 9001:2000 Standard
• Training Kit

Price Swiss francs 80.- for the printed and electronic versions from the FIDIC Bookshop.

• Printed version: Guide, ISO Guide, Kit and CD-ROM containing the Guide (PDF format), Guide to the Interpretation (PDF format) and Training Kit (PowerPoint presentation and PDF format).
• Electronic version: Guide (PDF format), Guide to the Interpretation (PDF format) and Training Kit (PowerPoint presentation and PDF format).

Guide to Quality Management in the Consulting Engineering Industry

2nd Edition, June 2001, available in printed Information & Orders and electronic versions Information & Orders. 
 
The 1st Edition 1994 (printed version) can be obtained by contacting the FIDIC Bookshop Information. The electronic version is no longer available.

Guide to the Interpretation and Application of the ISO 9001:2000 Standard for the Engineering Consulting Industry

Published September 2001, in printed Information & Orders and electronic versions Information & Orders.
 
The 1994 Guide to the ISO 9001 Standard (printed version) can be obtained by contacting the FIDIC Bookshop Information. The electronic version is no longer available.

Training Kit: Quality Management in the Engineering Consulting Industry

Published September 2001, in printed Information & Orders and electronic versions Information & Orders

A Brief Guide to Quality Management Engineering Consulting Industry
A brief guide (December 2001) based on the FIDIC Guide to Quality Management RTF

Quality Management Implementation Manual
In preparation (anticipate publication in late-2006). Based on  SAACE-South Africa's short Guide to Maintaining and Implementing a Quality Management System.

• updating of ISO 9001 and ISO 14000 (first Committee Drafts by mid-2006);
• database of sector documents is being developed to prevent the proliferation of quality management system standards (see March 2005 list of QM system related documents, PDF)
• improved alignment between 9001 and 14001: 9001 uses the "Process Approach", while 14001 uses a modified Deming cycle of "Plan-Do-Check-Act".  A task group has recommended  a common "systems" based structure based on: Context of the organization, Leadership, Support, Operations, Performance evaluation,& Improvement. Concurrent revisions of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 may start in 2008
• ISO survey of QM certificates.
• Auditing ISO 9001 QM systems, see ISO 9001 Auditing Practices Group; accreditation auditing, see Accreditation Auditing Practices Group
• ISO 2004 QM 9001 and 9004 user survey final report, PDF

• South Africa

Requires member firms to implement a quality management (QM) system by 2006. The association itself became ISO 9001 QM certification in January 2004 and, or smaller firms, has developed a QM training programme within the SAACE School of Consulting Engineering and published an advisory note Implementing and maintaining a QMS (www.saace.co.za) which draws upon FIDIC's Quality Management in the consulting engineering industry collection (see FIDIC.org/bookshop).

• Netherlands

ONRI has received 9001 QM certification and established a vigorous programme in collaboration with a service provider (Spekkink C&R) to help smaller firms establish QM systems. A description of the ONRI-Spekkink programme is available online (PPT). It is based on an implementation guide developed by  Spekkink C&R (October 2003 draft available from ONRI, in Dutch only) which itself is based on the Netherlands Standard BRL 9990:2001 (ISO 9001: 2001 for architects and consulting engineering firms).