General Notes for Construction

A. Materials and workmanship shall confirm to the requirements of the following

building codes:

1. ACI 318 – 83
2. AISC 1977
3. NSCP 10th Edition 2010

B. All drawings shall not be scaled for the purposes, unless otherwise indicated.

C. For all other requirements, refer to the Architectural, Sanitary, Electrical and
Mechanical working drawings.

Footings

1. Footings are designed to rest on soil with a minimum bearing capacity of 130 KPa.
2. No footings shall rest on fill.
3. Minimum concrete protection shall be 75 mm for concrete deposited against the
ground and 40 mm for concrete deposited against formwork.

Concrete Mixes and Placing

A. Unless otherwise specified, the minimum 28-day compressive strength are as

follows:

1. Footings and Beams on Grade 28 MPa

2. Columns 28 MPa
3. Slabs, Beams and Girders 28 MPa
4. Bearing and Retaining Walls 28 MPa
5. Partitions and Parapet Walls 28 MPa
6. Bedded Slabs, Catch Basins and Sidewalks 28 MPa

B. All concrete must be deposited, vibrated and cured in accordance with the
standards of ACI 318 – 83.

C. Stripping of forms and shores are as follows:

D. Concrete shall be cast on its final position without segregation or flowing. Placing
shall be done preferably with buggies, bucket or wheel borrows. No chutes will be
allowed except when transferring concrete from hoppers to buggies, wheel barrows
 or buckets such cases shall not exceed 6000 mm in aggregate length. No casting of
concrete shall be allowed without the use of vibrators, unless authorized, in writing
by the designer(s) and for conditions in which vibrators are extremely difficult to
accomplish.

Beams and Girders

A. Camber all beams and girders with at least 6.20 mm for every 300 mm of span.

B. For two or more layers of reinforcing bars, use separators spaced at 9 mm on

centers and in such case there shall be no less than two separators.

C. No splicing shall be permitted on beams and girders where critical bending stress
occurs. Tension splices to be permitted shall be 48 times the bar diameter for plain
bars and 24 times the bar diameter for deformed bars. Lap splices shall be wired
together. Splice top bars at supports. Bend bars at bend points in superstructure.
Welded splices shall be developed for tension, at least 125% of the specified yield
strength. Not more than 50% of the bars at any section shall be permitted to be
spliced.

D. If any beam reinforcing bars end in a wall, the clear distance from the bar end to the
farthest face of the wall shall not be less than 50 mm. Minimum embedment length
shall be 40 times the bar diameter for tension bars and 20 times the bar diameter
for compression bars.

E. Unless otherwise noted in plans or specifications, beams and girders shall be

cambered with at least 6.20 mm for every 300 mm of the span. For cantilever
beams for which the cambering must be noted in the plans or as ordered by the
designer, but in no case it will be less than 19 mm of every 300 mm of the free
span.

Slabs
A. All reinforcements shall be 20 mm clear from the top and bottom of the slab.

B. For two-way slabs, bars along the short span shall be placed below the bars along
the long span at the center and for the bars that are near to the supports, they shall
be placed over the long span. Unless otherwise specified or shown in details, the
spacing of the bars at the column strips is approximately 1 ⅓ of the strip, not in no
case it will be greater than 2 ⅔ times the slab thickness.

C. Unless otherwise detailed in conditions, slabs having the same reinforcements,

running in one direction, shall be bent, extended or cut as follows:

D. Temperature bars shall be generally placed near the tension side and shall not be
less than 0.0025bt.

E. Unless otherwise noted, all bedded slab shall be reinforced with 10 mm diameter
bar at 254 mm on centers at the center of slab construction joints and shall not be
more than 300 mm apart.

F. Provide extra reinforcements at the corner slabs at two discontinuous edges as

shown:

G. Provide supplementary reinforcements at small openings on floor slabs as shown:

 Structural Steel

A. All structural steel shall conform to ASTM A – 36.

B. Welding shall conform to AWS standards.

C. The fabricator shall submit shop drawings subject for approval of the engineer and
the owner.

Concrete Column

Concrete Walls
 A. Unless otherwise indicated in the plan, all reinforcements shall be followed
according to schedule:

Wall Reinforcements Remarks Vertical Bars

Thickness Horizontal Vertical Horizontal & Center
Vertical bars are
102 mm 10mmØ at 0.25 m.O.C. 10mmØ at 0.30 m.O.C. staggered outside

127 mm 10mmØ at 0.20 m.O.C. 10mmØ at 0.25 m.O.C.

Both faces horizontal
152 mm 10mmØ at 0.25 m.O.C. 10mmØ at 0.30 m.O.C. shall be inside
178 mm 10mmØ at 0.22 m.O.C. 10mmØ at 0.25 m.O.C.
Both faces horizontal
203 mm 10mmØ at 0.30 m.O.C. 10mmØ at 0.30 m.O.C. shall be inside
229 mm 10mmØ at 0.20 m.O.C. 10mmØ at 0.25 m.O.C.

254 mm 10mmØ at 0.30 m.O.C. 10mmØ at 0.30 m.O.C.

279 mm 10mmØ at 0.25 m.O.C. 10mmØ at 0.30 m.O.C.

305 mm 10mmØ at 0.22 m.O.C. 10mmØ at 0.27 m.O.C.

356 mm 10mmØ at 0.20 m.O.C. 10mmØ at 0.25 m.O.C.

406 mm 10mmØ at 0.25 m.O.C. 10mmØ at 0.30 m.O.C.

Columns shall be protected everywhere by covering of concrete cast monolithically

with the core with a minimum thickness of 127 mm and not less than 1 ½ times the
maximum size of coarse aggregates.

Mild Steel Reinforcements

A. All mild steel reinforcements shall conform to ASTM 15.62 – 2T and deformation to
305.561 or latest versions.

B. Development length for all bars shall not exceed 40 times the bar diameter unless
otherwise specified.

Standard Details
 Slab on Depression

Slab Construction Joints

Wall Construction

Standard Details
Wall Construction Unit

Wall Corner

Slab on Grade