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Engineering design drawings shall be prepared based on approved /agreed over all equipment layout

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1.2

Engineering design drawings shall be submitted to DEWA as per priority highlighted in DDCMS list .

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1.3

Engineering design drawings shall be provided with List of required legends and reference of related drawing.

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1.4
1.5

DEWA approved title Blocks only to be used for each drawings. Drawing number and drawing title must be same as indicated in
DDCMS.
DEWA approval status of reference drawings to be indicated in reference list respectively.

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1.6

Major references drawings to be provided to Dewa Engineers in time to avoid delay in approval process.

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1.7

Revision number and date shall be maintained based on revised submission to DEWA only.

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1.8

Engineering design drawings shall be prepared signed and endorsed by approved consultant prior to submission to DEWA for
approval .

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Engineering

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Introduction about the substation type ,its capacity ,contract number should be mentioned.

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Table of contents shall give all the descriptions of the clause.

2.3

Unit of measurement adopted shall be in SI units and code of design BS Code.

2.4

DESIGN STANDARDS AND CODE OF PRACTICES

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2.4.1 All Designs shall be prepared in accordance with British Standards and code of practices .

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2.4.2 All British codes referred in the Design ,construction ,steel work ,Drainage ,masonry ,earth work , shall be listed .Any British Code not
listed shall also be considered.

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2.4.3 Seismic Analysis shall be as per UBC 97 ; Seismic zone shall be 2B as per lattest DM regulations.

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2.4.4 Wind calculation shall be based on BS 6399

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2.5

LOAD CONSIDERED IN DESIGN

2.5.1 Breakage of all loads (self weight ,imposed dead weight and live or equipment loads )on the Roof ,First floor ,Ground floor and the
basement shall be given as per the standard design criteria.

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2.5.2 Dead loads shall comprise of the self weight of the structure multiplied by the density and the self imposed dead loads
of the structures like the walls ,finishes ,services ,pipes etc.

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2.5.3 Live loads shall as per the as per BS 6399 or manufacturers specification ,whichever is stringent.Equipment loads are to be
considered as live loads .

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2.5.4 Surcharge loads due to heavy vehicle load of 33.3 kn/m2 should be used in design of all underground structures should be mentioned.

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2.5.5 Lateral Earth pressure on walls of basement and tanks shall be calculated with coefficient of earth pressure at rest as per the soil
Report.

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2.5.6 Basic wind loads shall be considered and dynamic wind pressure to be calculated as per the building location conditions as per BS
6399

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2.5.7 Seismic loads shall be considered for seismic zone 2A and base shear calculated as per parameters of the structure as per UBC 97

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2.5.8 Blast load of 5 kn/m2 shall be considered in design of Transformer and Reactor internal walls.

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2.5.9 Crane loads shall be checked for the vertical and horizontal load percentages to be increased for electric overhead crane and hand
operated cranes.

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2.5.10 The capacity of the electrically operated crane of 5 MT capacity in the 132 kv GIS and monorail load of 2.0 MT capaciy in the fire
pump house roof of switchgear control building offloading area shall be checked as live loads.

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2.60 UNIT WEIGHT

2.6.1 Unit weight of all materilas used in Construction and Design shall be listed.

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2.6.2 Unit weight of soil under saturated condition and unit weight of water is to be checked.All hydrostaic loads to be considered as dead
loads.

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2.7

METHOD OF DESIGN AND ANALYSIS

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2.7.1 Analysis shall be performed using a 3 dimensional structural analysis software that takes care of all aspects of designing like model
development ,analysis,verification and visualization.ETAB'S ,STAAD PRO ,SAFE and SAP are to be mentioned in the calculations.

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2.80 Input data for the beams and columns are to be defined as frames members ,slabs as membrane ,walls as shells and the connection at
the base level as fixed.Raft will be designed by exporting all reactions from ETABS and defining the subgrade modulus as per soil
report.In STAAD PRO an integrate model can be directly designed.

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2.9

ANALYSIS RESULTS

2.9.1 All computer generated results such as member forces ,support reactions ,displacements and graphical output of analysis such as
bending moment ,shear force diagram,displacement to substantiate the numerical output to be checked.

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2.10 DESIGN DETAILS

2.10.1 Type of cement for super structure/substructure should be as per the recommendations of soil report.

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2.10.2 Grade of concrete for design shall be grade C40 with compressive strength of 35 N/mm2 @28days

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2.10.3 Grade of concrete for construction shall be C40 with compressive strength of 40N/mm2 @ 28 days.

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2.10.4 Precast concrete -C40 with compressive strength of 40 N/mm2 @ 28 days.

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2.10.5 Blinding and plain cement concrete -C20 with compressive strength of 15N/mm2 @ 28 days.

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2.10.6 Reinforcement shall be deformed type 2

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2.10.7 Grade of Steel considered shall be Grade 420 for Design purpose.

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2.10.8 Grade of steel considered shall be Grade 460 for Construction.

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2.10.9 Diameter of various bars shall be 8,10,12,16,20,25 & 32.

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2.22.10.106.4
Welded wire mesh shall comply with BS 4483

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2.10.11 Material Strengths and allowable stresses shall be as per BS 8110 Part 1 & 2.

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2.10.12 Maximum shear stress at any section shall not exceed 4.73 N/mm2.

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2.10.13 Design Ultimate Bond stress.

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2.10.13.1For bars in tension .5 x sq.root of 35 or 2.96 N/mm2

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2.10.15 For bars in compression .63 x sq.root of 35 or 3.73 N/mm2

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2.10.13.2Bearing stress inside bonds should be checked .

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2.11 LOADS AND LOAD COMBINATIONS

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2.11.1 Loads & load combinations for dead ,imposed ,wind ,seismic ,earth and crane loads ( ultimate and service conditions) shall be given as
per the standard design criteria.

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2.12 FACTOR OF SAFETY

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2.12.1 Check for the minimum safety factors for overturning in SLS condition: 1.5

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2.12.2 Minimum factor of safety for sliding in SLS condition : 1.5

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2.12.3 Minimum factor of safety for flotation in SLS condition: 1.1

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2.13 DESIGN
2.13.1 Design should be done for both servisibility and ultimate conditions for worst combinations of loads.
2.13.2 Design of Structural Elements shall be performed using the latest sofwares.

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2.14 CLEAR COVER TO REINFORCEMENT:

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2.14.1 Clear cover to reinforcement for members in contact with soil =75 mm

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2.14.2 External beams ,columns and walls =50 mm

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2.14.3 Internal beams ,columns and walls = 40 mm

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2.14.4 Slab external = 40 mm

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2.14.5 Slab internal = 35 mm

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2.14.6 Internal faces of basement wall = 40 mm

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2.14.7 Slab /precast cover= 40 mm

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2.15 ANCHORAGE LENGTH AND LAP LENGTH:

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2.15.1 Anchorage length and lap length shall as indicated in table 3.27 of BS 8110 Part 1.
2.16 FOUNDATION
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2.16.1 Raft foundation is proposed for main as well as for all ancilliary buildings.All soil parameters shall be
as per the soil report .Safe bearing capacity ,water table level shall be a per soil report.

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2.16.2 Allowable Settlement shall be 25 mm as per specification and differentiak settlement 10 mm.

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2.16.3 Retaining walls shall be designed for worst combination of earth pressure ,hydroststic pressure & surcharge
as applicable.

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2.17 MASONRY

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2.17.1 Masonry :the minimum characteristic strength of non-load bearing walls shall be 7 N/mm2.
2.17.2 Internal walls shall be 200 mm thick single leaf hollow block work

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2.17.3 External wall shall be 250 /350 mm thick thermal block wall

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2.17.4 Toilet partition shall be 100 mm thick.

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2.18 DETAILING
2.18.1 Detailing :shall be as per british standards of practice and preparation of bar bending schedules will conform to BS 4466.

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2.19 STRUCTURAL STEEL

2.19.1 Structural steel shall comply with BS 5950 Part 1

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2.19.2 Moment Capacity and deflection of the steel members shall be calculated based on BS 5950

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2.19.3 Loads and load combinations shall comply with BS 5950

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2.19.4 Bolt design shall cpmply with BS 3692 & BS 4190 (Minimum no of bolts at any joint shall be two)

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2.19.5 Minimum size of the weld should 6mm and electrode classification should be based on table 37 of BS 5050

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2.20 DRAINAGE & PLUMBING

Drainage & Plumbing should follow the five systems Storm /Surface water Drainage ,Sewage Drainage ,Oillwater Drainage
2.20.1 ,Chemical Discharge and Indoor potable water .

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Inspection

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3.2

Construction & Installation

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4.1
4.2

Testing & Commissioning

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5.1
5.2

Maintenance

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Mariam Abdullah Al Suwaidhi

Srinivas Kupuswamy
Zeenat Pasha

Nasreen Mir
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Nasreen Mir
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Khawla Saleh Aldhebaiei

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BS 8110
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As per DM/approved soil

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C40
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5 N/mm2

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strength of concrete

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As per compressive
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As per compressive
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BS 8110
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BS 8110

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BS 8110

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BS 8110

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BS 8110

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BS 8110

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BS 8110

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BS 8110
BS 8110

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BS 5950 PART 1

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BS 5950 PART 1

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