Project: African Union Peace and Security Building Location: Addis Ababa Implementing Agency: giz

African Union Peace & Security Building

Date:21th February 2012
Work Methodology for prefabricated parapet construction

Flintstone engineering Ethio China Road Ave. Addis Ababa, Sub City Cherkos, Kebele 03 PO Box 559/1110, Ethiopia 9/20/2011

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1. 2. 3. 4. Scope of Methodology ................................................................................................................................... 2 Column Reinforcement bar ............................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. Column shuttering........................................................................................................................................... 2 Concrete Placing.............................................................................................................................................. 3 Labor Arrangement .......................................................................................................................................... 4 5. Schedule .......................................................................................................................................................... 5

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1. Scope of Methodology o This method statement relates to the construction of precast concrete parapet construction and assembly work. o It shall mainly cover the processes related to the mass production and assembly of standard diagonal parapet sections of a standard angle of inclination 780 and 800 o

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Prefabrication

2.1 formwork production

o The AU-PSB Building has a sloped faade parapet on the west and south sides of the building. This sloped faade is one of the major architectural significant features of the building. o o The sloped faade shall start from the slab above the first floor The 50ml is the 810 slope (South Direction ) and the 44ml is the 780 slopes (West direction)

Concrete column heights to be cast at once may rich from 4.60m to 10.40m up to the bottom of ground floor beams. o o o o 14.2 tons of reinforcement bars shall be fixed to ground floor circular columns. The Ground floor wall rebar quantity is around 92 tons. The rebar Overlap length shall not be less than 96cm for the main bars. The rebar work shall continue to be done is 2 shifts.

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Column shuttering There are around 39 circular columns in ground floor with a diamter as shown below,

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In order to finish the casting in one month, with the limited circular formwork available on site, it is a must to cast 5 columns of dia. 50cm columns in one week of time.

Since the formwork on site are a maximum of 4m height we are forced to cut some of the column formworks which has a diameter less than 50cm and monolithically fix on the formworks of 4m height of the same diameter to get a full height of 6ml.

Joints between two Half circle shall be sealed with silicon to avoid the outflow of cement paste during concrete casting.

o o Bottom frame shall be prepared as shown above from a piece of plywood and fixed to the concrete floor slab so that later on the circular column formwork shall be precisely guided with it. o o After the inspection of the column reinforcement, the shuttering shall be closed. A bottom and top push and pull prop will be attached in a horizontal 900 angle and adjusted to get the vertical plumb. o The circular formwork panel is painted with a release agent to avoid the bonding effect between the shuttering and concrete element. Sika Decoffre Mineral is the material that shall be used as a formwork releasing agent.

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Concrete Placing The ground floor wall concrete volume is about 47m3 Casting shall start at the third week of February 2012 Concrete columns which have a diameter equal of less than 50cm shall be cast in one layer while columns greater than 50cm shall be cast twice per floor height.

The columns located in the plenary room shall be casted with C-40 concrete compressive strength.

Cement paste or cement rich concrete mix shall first be placed to a height of 1m where the reinforcement and starter bars are congested in order to avoid the honey comb due to outflow of concrete, or due to segregation effect.

PVC casting pipes of diameter 160mm shall be used to place the concrete to the bottom of column sections.

Pocket Vibrator hose of length greater than 6m shall be used for casting columns.

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o o Viberator hose shall be inserted in the columns and shall be removed out very slowly. A gauging rod shall be prepared from reinforcement bar so that to assist the mason not to fill in excess of the required height. o A copy of Concrete Delivery ticket (concrete book) shall be delivered to giz office for each mix of concrete. o Site arrangement shall be made for slump tests and concrete cube tests for quality assurance purposes according to the DIN Standard. Labor Arrangement 1. Surveying Team o o o 1 Surveyor 1 Assistant Surveyor 2 Daily Laborers

2. Cleaning Team o o 1 Labor with the Compressor machine 3 Cleaners

3. Welding Team o o o 4. Tower Crane Operator o o o 3 Operator 1 Assistant Operator 1 Mechanic 2 Welders 2 Daily Laborers

5. Shuttering fixing crew o o o o o 6 carpenters 8 Daily Laborers General Foreman Foreman Group Leader

6. Concrete casting group o o 3 mason in concrete placing 6 carpenters to check the shuttering in place

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o 13 Daily Laborers

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Schedule In order to finish the 39 columns within 15 days, we have to cast 3 columns in a day. For the 50cm diameter column, we shall cast 3 columns in two days gap.

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