CONCRETE AND RSB

Scope includes all concrete works for building.

Cement shall be any standard commercial Portland in 40 kg/bag such as “Filipinas island “, “Republic” or
other locally available equivalent.

Fine aggregates shall be clean, hard, coarse river sand or crushed sand free from injurious amount of
clay loam and vegetative matter.

Coarse aggregate shall be river run gravel or broken stones, the maximum size shall be 1/5 of the
nearest dimension between sides of forms of the concrete of ¾ of the minimum clear spacing between
reinforcing bars or between rebar whichever is smaller.

Water shall be clean and potable.

Reinforce bars shall be standard commercial deformed steel bars such as “Eligan steel”, “Marcelo steel”,
“ PBM “ or any other locally available equivalent, and must conform to ASTM A-615.

Concrete form shall be 25mm thick or 6mm thick ordinary plywood. Form shall be coated with oil of the
approved make.

Storage of materials. Store cements on platform on ground; protected stored against the elements.
Handle and store fine aggregates separately in foreign matter. Protect all reinforcing bars form the
elements until used.
Construction of forms. Construct forms sufficiently tight to prevent leaking; securely braced and shore to
prevent displacement and to safely support construction leads. Formworks shall be after fixing be
cleaned out and coated with oil prior to pouring. Avoid spilling of oil on reinforcement or previously
concrete surface. Forms shall not be removed until concrete has set.

Placing metal reinforcement. Place reinforcement securely fastened and supported to prevent
displacement before or during placing of concrete. Bars shall be best cold. Bars shall be avoided us much
as possible and shall be staggered in any structural member. In no case shall spliced be made at critical
form points of maximum stresses, unless approved by City Engineers Office structural Engineer

Placing concrete. Concrete shall be rapidly handled from the mixed site to forms and deposited as early
as possible in the final position without aggregation or aggregates or loss of ingredients. Concrete shall
be spaded or work by hand to assured close contact with the surface of forms and reinforcement.
Concrete that are partially hardened shall not be used in the work. Re-tamped concrete shall not be
used. Concrete shall not be drop freely more than 1.52 meter. For columns, walls and beams and not
more than 1 m in footings and slabs.

Curing shall be started as soon as free water has disappeared from the surface of the concrete. The
entire surface of the concrete shall be coved with a canvas, sand, straw, jute sack or other satisfactory
material and kept moist by flashing or sprinkling water. Curing must be continue for a period must be 7
days after placing concrete.

MASONRY

For walls and partition show in the drawing required concrete hollow blocks, use “jackbilt” or
“permanent” or approved locally made equivalent. Concrete hollow blocks shall have a minimum
compressive strength of 49/kg/c.

All horizontal and vertical reinforcing bars shall be anchored 24dia into the concrete walls, or columns or
slabs. Dowel bars properly spaced are placed into the walls, columns or slabs during the bending and
hooked to the vertical bars, leaving another 24dia exposed to the splices with the reinforcing bars of the
hollow block wall during the construction.
All units shall be laid with a mortar composed one part Portland cement three parts of sands, unless
otherwise specified or detailed on the plan; horizontal and vertical joints shall be 10mm thick. Joints
shall be solidly filled from the face of the blocks to the depth of the face pointing where necessary to
completely and compactly fill the joints. Reinforcing will consist of 10mm at .60 vertical bars (or at every
block) and 10mm horizontal bars at every third course for both 100mm.

All exposed surface of concrete hollow blocks unless otherwise specified in the drawing shall be finished
with the cement plaster with thickness of 12mm in two

Application. Scratch coat of ten mm. and finish coat of 3mm thick consisting of one bag 40kg of Portland
cement and .053 cu m of clean river sand properly screened and thoroughly screened and thoroughly
mix. Before application of cement mortar finish, the surfaces shall be wetted for at least two (2) hours

Cement mortar shall be mixed only in such quantities as are required for immediate use and any mixture
that has developed initial set shall not be use. Mixing shall be continued until a homogenous mixture of
the required mixing of the cement mortar that has partially hardened shall not be allowed.