Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
2012 Edition
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contained in this publication, HDB and its employees shall not be responsible for any
mistakes or inaccuracies that may be contained here. Any liability and responsibility
to any party for losses or damage arising from this publication are expressly
disclaimed by HDB and its employees.
Foreword
Housing & Development Board (HDB) takes pride in housing more than 80% of the
population in Singapore. Delivering well-designed HDB flats of high quality has always
been our top priority.
HDB started to outsource the consultancy services for the design and supervision of
construction of HDB flats since 2003. We now have more than 100 consultants
participating in HDB projects. To ensure consistency in supervision practice and
standard, HDB has embarked on this project to produce a set of Supervision
Guide. They aim to serve as reference to the consultants in developing a
comprehensive Quality Assurance System for managing our projects.
There are altogether five Guides covering the supervision of architectural, structural
engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering
works. These guides set out our expectations, share HDBs requirements and illustrate
good practices.
These Guides are now available at HDB BGBiz Portal (http://bgbiz.hdb.gov.sg/) for
your easy reference. We hope you will find them useful and informative. We will be
reviewing the guides regularly and we welcome your valuable feedback to further
improve the guides. Lets work together in the pursuit of quality excellence in our
projects.
Thomas Seow
Group Director
Building Quality Group
Housing & Development Board
Contents
1
Introduction
Pg 1
Site Preparation
Pg 2
Trial Bore
Pg 4
Pre-piling Meeting
Pg 6
Pg 7
Pg 13
Pg 14
Pg 16
Good Practices
Pg 23
Pg 27
10
Introduction
This book serves to guide our Consultants in supervising piling, service road and minor
sewer works for new HDB development projects. HDBs general requirements and the
examples cited are only for reference purposes. The Consultants shall develop their
own comprehensive supervision system and specific checklists/forms for each project.
The Consultant shall submit the following to the HDB Project Director (PD) according
to the proposed timeline to ensure timely completion of piling, service road and minor
sewer work:
S/n
Description
Timeline
Before contract
commences
Method statements
Site Preparation
Pre-Construction Survey
Consultants shall ensure that pre-construction survey is carried out to determine the
condition of existing buildings and structures adjacent or in close proximity to the piling
works. The consultant is required to exercise due diligence in monitoring the piling
works, assess the readings and instructs the contractor to take corrective actions
where necessary.
The owner of each affected building or structure shall be given a copy of the preconstruction survey of their property. A complete set of the pre-construction survey
report should be kept on site.
Services Detection
The Contractor shall engage licensed cables/services detecting companies to carry out
cable/services detection work.
Copies of the latest services plans shall be kept on site.
Any cable/services detected shall be clearly marked on site and contractor shall take
the necessary precautionary measures to protect the cable/services throughout the
construction period.
Examples of cables/services that
require protection :
Power cables
Telecommunication cables
Water main
Sewer line
Noise Meter
Prism
Vibration Monitoring
Inclinometer
Tilt Plate
Trial Bore
Purpose
The Contractor shall carry out trial bore outside the working pile location to determine
the following:
Granite ?
Incline formation
Socketing to
granite
The bored hole must be covered up immediately after it has been inspected.
Pre-piling Meeting
Purpose
The main purpose for the pre-piling meeting is to establish a mutual understanding
among all stakeholders on the construction programme and supervision system, and to
ensure that the piling works can be completed on time.
The following key personnel shall be invited for the pre-piling meeting:
HDB
PD
PDA
Consultant
Project Manger
QP
RE
RTOs
Main Contractor
Project Manger
Site Supervisor
Safety Officer
Piling Contractor
Project
Engineer/Manager
Site Supervisor
The contractor shall submit the method statement on setting out of kentledge
system.
Item such as the followings shall be included :
Geotechnical bearing capacity check
Maximum allowable load on kentledge
Maximum load to be applied on test pile
Stability monitoring of the kentledge
Upon the completion of each iULT, the Consultant is required to arrange for a PileDesign Optimisation Review with HDB.
The QP and AC must submit their respective evaluation reports on the test results to
HDB within 10 working days upon completion of each iULT.
The review is to be attended by QP, AC and/or PE(Geo) & AC(Geo).
Flowchart for Pile-design Optimisation Review
Maximum Duration
QP/Contractor
commence piling
works (based on
original pile design
verified by ULT)
QP/AC present analysis of iULT results and recommend pile redesign at Pile Optimisation Review with HDB
QP submits
revised pile design
to HDB for
verification
Serial No.
Date of calibration
Equipment to be encased in a
tempered-free box during the
holding period of pile load test
10
Contractor
endorsement
RE
endorsement
RTO
endorsement
Upon completion of all the pile load tests, Consultant is to provide summary of pile load
test result to HDB (PD).
ABC
XYZ
DEF
QP to endorse and
to indicate followaction where
necessary.
11
12
Pile Record
The Consultant shall ensure that the Contractor maintains and updates the bored
pile records after each pile installation and to be submitted to the RE/RTO by the
next working day. For the purpose of payment for coring through rock layer, the rock
socket level shall be clearly indicated on the pile records form. A sample of the form
is shown below. The form shall be endorsed by the Contractors Representative and
the Consultants RTO & RE.
13
14
For bored piles with dry casting method, the Contractor shall install a 16mm internal
diameter hollow UPVC pipe of approved quality with a pre-laid 3mm wire.
Contractor is to take the necessary precautionary measures to prevent damage to the
UPVC pipe before the pile penetration check.
15
16
Bakau Piling
Depending on the soil condition, bakau piling to drain may be required as specified by the
QP and indicated on the drawings.
Bakau pile shall be driven with piling frame with a drop hammer of approved weight of not
less than 200kg to a final set of 200mm for the last 10 blows from the drop of 1.0m to
1.5m height.
The Contractor shall submit the method statement to the Consultant before commencing
the bakau piling. All piling information shall be recorded.
The centre
line and the
positions of
the piles
shall be
pegged.
17
Galvanised Grating
Galvanised gratings shall be tested for their zinc mass coating. 2% of the total
number of gratings installed or a minimum of 3 numbers of gratings shall be
selected for testing.
The mass of zinc coating on each grating shall comply with the following average
coating mass:
18
: 2mm
Width
: 2mm
Thickness
: 3mm
The average compressive strength shall not be less than 49N per mm 2 and crushing
strength of any individual blocks shall not less than 40N per mm 2.
Non-homogeneous
(composite concrete paving block)
Homogeneous
19
Interlocking paving
blocks (80mm thk)
Bedding sand (50mm thk)
20
21
Materials Test
The Consultant shall plan and schedule the materials for testing. To avoid abortive work, the
test results should be obtained before allowing the use of materials for construction.
Sample list of materials for testing:
Service Road/Drain Material
Relevant Tests
Compaction of Sub-grade
CBR Test
22
Good Practices
16/4/09
38.2m
23
Measuring Tapes
To ensure measuring tapes used are not tampered with, the Consultant shall check the
measuring tapes used on site for the measurement of pile penetration depth.
The Consultant is to ensure measuring tapes used are not tampered with.
24
Temporary Casing
For the safety of workers and to prevent loose materials from dropping into the bored
holes, a temporary casing of at least 1 m height from the ground level shall be
provided.
> 1m casing
above ground
Reinforcement
cage shall be
elevated from the
ground.
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26
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27
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29
Acknowledgements
The Supervision Guides Editorial Team would like to express its thanks and
appreciation to Mr Tan Thu Liak, Mr Lim Seam Teong, Mr Alan Tang Liang Yah,
Mr Patrick Ng Hak Wue, Mr Chan Yee Soo, Mr Shaifuddin Bin Md Salleh and all
others who have in one way or another contributed towards the success of this
Guidebook.
2012 Edition