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B. Reinforcing Steel (Concrete Reinforcing) - Installation
SCOPE NARRATIVE
This scope includes the installation of concrete reinforcing including providing labor only to facilitate the receiving, unloading, handling and storage of reinforcing steel material at the project site, including moving to final location, assembling, pre-assembling, installation, initial correction and adjustment.
Hoisting shall mean raising and lowering only of all reinforcing steel materials on site from delivery trucks, site storage areas and preassembly areas to another designated place at the work site. Hoisting includes equipment and operator but does not include labor or rigger.
This scope for the installation only includes and excludes the following items regardless of where they may appear in the tender documents unless specifically noted otherwise in this scope:
TRADE DEFINITION
INCLUDED
1. Installation of mechanical and exothermic couplers, including machinery and labor to install; 2. Installation of reinforcing steel and welded wire fabric; 3. Supply and installation of accessories, tie wire, epoxy coated tie wire, and inserts; 4. Supply all materials required for temporary or permanent connection of the component parts of the reinforcing steel; 5. Supply and installation of support and spacer bars not specified nor specifically shown on the drawings; 6. Touching up/repairing defects or damage to epoxy coated reinforcing bars; 7. Installation only of composite floor reinforcing bar supports, supplied by others, see Cold Rolled Metal Framing, Included; 8. Material handling, including receiving and unloading of materials; 9. Rigging equipment and labor for unloading and hoisting; 10. Trade specific lighting to perform tasks; 11. Trade cleanup - cleanup for work carried out by this trade; 12. General Cleanup – provide 1 in 10 workers for 4 hours weekly to assist in general jobsite cleanup; 13. Warranty or Guaranty; 14. Quality assurance and quality control testing of materials and procedures as detailed in the Contract Documents; 15. Submittals and Operation and Maintenance documentation as detailed in the Contract Documents; 16. Cash allowances that apply to this trade scope when a specific dollar amount is listed in this trade’s specification section; 17. Protection of other trades’ work from damage when performing this trade’s scope of work; 18. Commissioning as it applies to this trade scope; 19. Building Information Modeling (BIM) as it applies to this trade scope.
EXCLUDED
1. Caisson and pile dowels; 2. Post tension cables, accessories, supports and anchorage reinforcement, see Post Tensioning, Included; 3. Expansion sleeves, caps, wrapping, greasing and accessories; 4. Field welding; 5. Hoisting; 6. Inserts; 7. Lifting of mesh during pouring of concrete; 8. Chairing of mesh prior to pour; 9. Lines, templates and grades; 10. Placing bars and supply and placing of accessories to masonry or similar type blocks; 11. Reinforcing steel for masonry including dowels; 12. Tying reinforcing steel to water stops; 13. Tying reinforcing into cages for masonry when shown on drawings, see Masonry, Included; 14. Scaffolding which supports concrete formwork; 15. Maintenance of Dowel protection after initial installation; 16. Drilling and grouting of Dowels; 17. Aerial work platform with Operator; 18. Fall protection anchor points; 19. Owners third party testing to audit this trade’s compliance with the quality assurance and control testing of materials and procedures as detailed in the Contract Documents; 20. Common scaffold or platform when required to perform work by multiple trades; 21. Temporary heat, general lighting, power, sanitation and water for general construction; 22. Hoarding; 23. Final Cleaning before turnover; 24. Security costs. When Security is required for trades to complete their work these services and costs for same will be provided by the General Contractor; 25. Supply and maintenance of garbage and recycling bins for construction waste; 26. Removal of construction waste from job site; 27. General site security.
