Inspection & Test Plan (ITP) Template

A construction QA/QC Inspection & Test Plan capturing 17 standard activities — from material receiving and welder qualification to PWHT, NDT, pressure test, and final dossier — with H / W / R codes and acceptance criteria.

An Inspection & Test Plan (ITP) is the project-specific document that defines what gets inspected, how, when, against what acceptance criteria, and by whom. ITPs are mandatory deliverables on every EPC, fabrication, and major maintenance project — they are the bridge between the contract specifications and the construction crew on the shop floor.

Use this template at the start of any project to define the QA / QC plan. The 17 pre-filled rows cover the most common ASME-driven construction activities. Add discipline-specific rows (coatings, insulation, electrical) as needed. The H / W / R columns make it explicit who attends each activity — critical for client and TPI scheduling.

Atlantis NDT can develop a discipline-specific ITP suite for your fabrication shop or EPC project, complete with the supporting forms and inspection reports referenced in the Records column.

Atlantis NDT delivers full ITP packs for piping, pressure vessels, structural steel, storage tanks, and offshore modules.

What this page covers

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Key points covered

  • Project / discipline header — ITP number, revision, reference specifications and codes
  • H / W / R / M / S / I legend — Hold, Witness, Review, Monitor, Surveillance, Information
  • 17 standard inspection activities — material receiving, WPS / welder verification, fit-up, pre-heat, VT, MT, PT, UT, RT, PWHT, hardness, PMI, dimensional, pressure test, coating, final dossier
  • Acceptance criteria per row — tied to ASME / API / SSPC / NACE clauses
  • Responsibility matrix — contractor / sub-contractor / client+TPI columns
  • Approval signatures — contractor QC, welding engineer, sub-contractor, client PM, TPI

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Writing an ITP that survives the project

An inspection and test plan is a contract about attention: which activities will be examined, against which acceptance criteria, at which intervention level — hold, witness, review. The classic ITP failure is intervention-point inflation: everything marked "hold" until the schedule forces wholesale waiving, at which point the document describes a control system that never operated. Assign hold points only where proceeding would bury the evidence (fit-up before welding, surfaces before coating), witness points where presence adds judgement, review elsewhere — and record every waiver with its authoriser, because waived points are the first thing a failure investigation reads.

Reference documents by revision, name the acceptance criteria per activity (not "per code"), and make the sign-off columns match how the work actually flows between contractor, client and third party. An ITP nobody can execute as written is a nonconformance generator, not a quality plan.

Where this document sits in the wider system

Templates fail as loose files and work as parts of a system: this document should cross-reference the records that feed it and the decisions it feeds, carry a revision history like any controlled document, and live where the whole team retrieves the CURRENT version — not the copy someone improved privately last year. Companies running their inspection operations on a single system of record generate most of these documents from live data rather than filling them by hand; that is the practical difference between managed records and managed paperwork. Browse all templates and resources, or ask how the generated version works.