PAT Tower Standard

Design Criteria and

Requirements

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I. TOWER STANDARD DESIGN CRITERIA AND REQUIREMENTS

The towers shall be designed to meet the high standards of durability and functionality needed for
telecommunications steel structure and accessories. All the elements shall be sufficiently strong at any
point to allow for the fixing of loads and accessories.

A. STANDARD REFERENCE

a) TIA / EIA = 222 –G Standard: Structural Standards for Steel Antenna Towers and Antenna
Supporting Structures.

b) Accordance with any relevant mandatory building code in Myanmar

B. TOWER CLASSIFICATION TERRAIN PARAMETER

a) Ground Based Tower (GBT)

The structure classification and default terrain parameter are refer to Annex A.2.2, A.2.6.5
and A.2.6.6 in TIA-222-G design standard are flowing:

 Structure Class: II
 Exposure Category: C
 Topographic Category: 1

C. MATERIALS SPECIFICAT ION

1) Steel Structure Type

a) Self-Supporting Tower (SST)

 Each tower type the top section must be 8m minimum straight portion (Not
tapered) with tower height adjustable as separated to 1 section of 4m and 2
sections of 2m.
 Main legs of top straight section are made of tubular round.
 Triangular tower cross sections (3 Legs)
 Main legs and bracing are made of tubular round or angular steel.

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  All the connections made with Steel Bolts, each fitted with one spring washer and
double nut.
 Tower should be extendable if required. Not consider extension portion in tower
analysis, provide only connection design of leg and bracing for future tower
extension.
 All member of tower design should be optimized.

b) Steel Shapes & Plates accordance with ASTM A 36 / JIS G3101 fy = 245 MPa or can
be replace with higher grade of steel to meet loading requirement and material
efficiencies.

2) Bolt &Nut

Splice Bolts = ASTM A = 325 / JIS B1051 = Grade 8.8 fy = 560 MPa (Equivalent or Higher)

3) Anchor Bolt

Grade of Anchor = ASTM A = 307 fy = 240 MPa (Equivalent or Higher)

4) First/Primary Coating

Hot Dipped Galv. = ASTM A = 123 Min. 75 microns thickness

5) Concrete

fc' = 20MPa ( 28 days ) cylinder (ACI design code)

6) Rebars

= Grade of rebars = BJTP ( dia. ≤ 10 mm ) fy = 240 MPa

= Grade of rebars = BJTD ( dia. > 10 mm ) fy = 390 MPa

7) Welding Electrodes

Minimum Grade of Welding Electrode = AWS A5.1 E60XX. fy = 345 MPa

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 D. LOADINGS

1) Dead Load

Consist of Weight of Tower structure including antenna, ladder and appurtenances.

2) Wind Load

Calculated according to TIA / EIA = 222 –G Standard: Structural Standard for Steel
Antenna Towers and Antenna Supporting Structures.

The basic wind speed is based on peak gust velocity averaged over a short time interval
of 3 second (3 second gust) to withstand with the following Myanmar standard
regional basic wind speed:

1. 130 km/h
2. 160 km/h
3. 200 km/h
4. 225 km/h

3) Seismic Load

Calculated according to TIA / EIA = 222 –G Standard: Structural Standard for Steel
Antenna Towers and Antenna Supporting Structures

The maximum accelerations Ss = 2.25 and S1 = 0.9 with the following Myanmar
standard regional.

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 4) Antennas Load

Tower Structure considered to be able to support the antennas load as per

following configuration (distributed):

Table. 1: Antenna Configuration and Total loading Area (see attached reference schematics)

On column “Antenna Config” on table above.:

o Tower design and analysis shall be consider antennas loads are included force
coefficient (CA)
o Type and shape of antenna

 RF antenna: “FLAT PANEL”

 MW dish antenna: “WITH CYLINDRICAL SHROUD”

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 E. DESIGN CONDITIONS AND TOLERANCES

1. Allowable Stress Ratio = 1 (calculated on basic wind speed condition refer to its regional
area)
2. Allowable Twist = 0.5 degree (in operational wind speed condition – 70% of basic wind
speed)
3. Allowable Sway = 0.5 degree (in operational wind speed condition – 70% of basic wind
speed)
4. Allowable Horizontal Displacement = H/200 ( H= Tower Height, in operational wind
speed condition – 70% of basic wind speed)

F. TOWER EQUIPMENT AND ACCESORIES

 All parts including the tower accessories shall be made of hot dip galvanized steel – min
75 micron thickness.
 All nuts, bolts, washers shall be made of hot dip galvanized steel and meet the
requirement as of structural needs.
 Tower shall be equipped with a vertical cable tray along the tower height, climbing
ladder, lighting rod and a fall arrester system.
 Tower shall be equipped with Aircraft warning light and Air Terminal/Lightning Splitzen
mounting as required by Applicable Laws. (Optional)
 Rest platform with safety railing shall be attached on tower are two of 45m and two of
60m tower.
 Tower shall be equipped with three of RF antenna brackets (3m pole length) and two
of Microwave brackets (1.5m pole length). See detail requirement in the “PAT Antenna
Mounting Bracket Standard Design Criteria and Requirements”.

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 G. TYPICAL TOWER FOUNDATION

Tower supplier shall provide design of typical tower foundation for each type of tower as
follow assumption below:

No Soil Bearing Capacity Soil Condition Foundation Type

1 50kPA Submerge Raft

2 Dry Isolated / Raft

100kPA
3 Submerge Raft

4 Dry Isolated / Raft

150kPA
5 Submerge Raft

H. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION

Tower supplier shall provide document as below:

 Full package of tower and foundation design drawing with sigh and seal. (Hard copy, PDF
and CAD File)
 Full package of tower and foundation design calculation sheets with sigh and seal. (Hard
copy and soft copy)
 Tower Erection Drawings
 Tower Fabrication Drawings
 Mill Certification and material testing report.
 Steel Material Testing
 Welding Testing
 Hot dip galvanize testing

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II. LOGISTICS REQUIREMENTS

1. Payment Term – CIF

2. Supplier shall be delivered within 8 weeks upon receipt of Purchase Orders. The
complete and undamaged goods shall be in the Yangon Port (landed) on the 56th day
with complete documents.
3. Damaged or incomplete tower set is considered not delivered.
4. Supplier shall provide shipping documents in time such as 4 sets of BL/AWB- 2 Original
& 2 Copies, 4 sets of Original Invoice and Packing List, 2 sets of CO (Country of Origin),
1 set of Insurance Certificate.
5. Supplier shall replace all the damaged goods incurred during the shipping. A
representative from the supplier shall be present during the handover in PAT Yangon
Warehouse.
6. Supplier will bear the shipping cost of incomplete, missing and/or damaged items and
of the delivery cost from origin of country to warehouse to the site.
7. In each tower delivery, supplier shall provide an additional (5% minimum) Nuts and
Bolts from the total count, free of charge.
8. Supplier shall provide Tower Erection Drawing inside the container for each tower type
9. Supplier shall not arrange any shipment without PAT confirmation, authorization and/
or without Import license.
10. Packaging and Serial Number
a) Towers will have a serial number attached to the bundle or packaging or to
the tower itself. Bundles shall be also be serialized with the Tower Serial
Number.
 Tower serial nomenclature or syntax will be dictated by the
supplier. Bundles will have a prefix of “BD” followed by numerical
series. Tower serial number shall be indicated followed by the
Bundle serial number.
 Example: Tower Serial Number is “TW00012”. Bundle one will
have TW00012-BD0001.
a) The serial number is either paint stamp, in printed colored sticker or in a
plate. The serial number tag or stamp shall not be easily peeled off and/or
in secured attachment.
b) Bundle Packaging shall be per tower i.e. tower parts for different tower
serial number shall not mix.
c) Packaging list includes the tower and Bundle serial number
d) Supplier shall submit their packaging standards and methodology.
e)
11. Penalty computation of Late Deliveries

Computation of late deliveries to Yangon Warehouse as follows:

(As per PO value of a Tower) X (1.25%) X (no. calendar days late)

For example: One Tower PO values is $20,000.00, the penalty is $250 per day.

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