PROJECT One Storey Beach House at Malapascua, Daanbantayan, Cebu

OWNER Joaquin Paez

LOCATION Malapascua, Daanbantayan, Cebu
SUBJECT General Notes and Specifications
APPROPRIATION Php 1, 555, 171.31

INTRODUCTION
The drawings and the Specification are complementary to each other. Drawings are graphic
means of showing works to be done. They are particularly suited to showing where materials are
located. Thus, drawing exists essentially to show sizes «cation and placement. Not all works,
however, can be presented in the drawings. Generalized works are usually in statement form;
hence the Contractor is strongly advised to read the specification carefully.

Specification on the other hand, is used to describe the materials, construction techniques,
samples, shop drawings, guarantee, and the other contract requirements. Together, the Drawings
and the Specification are used to inform the contractor. In cases where specified brand carries
with it the manufacture’s specifications, the manufacture’s specification shall hold the precedence
over this specification.

THE LANGUAC•E OF THE SPECIFICATIONS. •

The specifications are the abbreviated type and include incomplete sentences. The selection of sentence
structure depends on the underlying principles of the specifications:

a. That the technical specifications are only one part of the Contract Document:

b. That the contract is between the Owner and the General Contractor;

A, Only the General Contractor is referred to in the specification so as not to violate the intent of
the contract and so as not to undermine the proper chain of command.

B. The omission of the phrase “the contractor shall” is intentional because the whole
specifications are directed to the Contractor. Omitted words or phrases shall be supplied
by the interference in the same manner, as they are when a “note5’ occurs in the drawings.

Where “as shown”, “as indented”, “as detailed”, or words similar import are used, it shall
be understood that the reference in the drawings accompanying the specifications is made
unless otherwise stated.

D. Where “as directed”, “as required”, “as permitted”, “as authorized”, “as approved”, “as
accepted”, or other words similar import are used, it shall be understood that the direction,
requirements, permission, authorization, approval, or acceptance of Use Architect is
intended unless otherwise stated.

E. As used herein, “provide” shall be understood to mean “provide complete in place” that is
“finished and installed”.
L GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:

l. The Contractor shall secure from the government agencies all necessary licenses and
permits needed.

2. Cleanliness shall be maintained at all times within the job site and its immediate
premises.

If errors or omissions appear in the drawings, specifications or other documents, these

shall be referred to the designing architect/ project engineer.

4. The building site shall be filled up to the required grade.

All applicable provisions of the different divisions of the specification for each work
trade shall apply for all items cited in this summary

6. Materials deemed necessary to complete the work but not specifically mentioned in the
specification, working drawings, or in the Contract Document, shall be supplied
and installed by the Contractor without extra cost to the Owner. Such material
shall be of the highest quality available and install. and applied in a workmanlike
manner at prescribed or appropriate locations.

7. Materials specifically mentioned in this Summary shall be installed following efficient

and sound Engineering and Constriction practice, and especially as per Manufacture’s
application and installation specification, which shall govern over all works, eluded in
this Specification.

8. The Contractor shall clean the site and disposed waste after the completion of the
project.

SPL 1 — PROTECT BILLBOARD:

1, Design for billboard, refer the Project Engineer.

SPL 2 — CONSTRUCTION SAFETY & HEALTH

Shall include the labor cost of first aider and material cost that use of construction, such as
safety shoes, safety helmet, first aid kit/meds, and specialized PPE, in the duration of building a
project.

SPL-3 PERMIT

Dealing in before and after the project will be build, include the construction permit of
electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), Plumbing, or side sewer, and after
the project building there was a team to inspect that all of compliances was meet.
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SPL-4 SOIL EXPLORATION

This work consist of area site investigation. Site investigation, in general deals with
determining in general, the suitability of the site for the proposed construction. site for the
proposed construction.

The function of a properly designed foundation is to support loads resting on it without

causing excessive stresses within the soil mass at any depth beneath foundation. Stresses are
considered excessive if a complete rupture within the soil mass occurs (Shear failure), or if
detrimental settlements result (failure due to excessive settlement). Therefore it is apparent that
one of the most important steps in the solution of a foundation problem is determining
underground conditions that will affect the design.

CLASSES: Sub-surface investigations may be subdivided into three classes:

a) Foundation investigations to investigate sites for new structures.

b) Stability or failure investigations to investigate causes of distress or failure of existing

structures.

c) Earthwork iinvestigations to evaluate suitability of natural materials for construction

purposes.

PROCEDURE OF EXPLORATIONS:

The procedure of exploration can be divided into the following steps:

1) RECONNAISSANCE:

i) Collection of data about the project.

ii) Geologic study of the site.

iii) Site inspection.

2) PRELIMIN ARY EXPLORATION:

i) Depth, extent, and composition of critical soil strata,

ii} Ground-water level and its fluctuations,

iii) Depth of bed rock, when necessary,

iv) Estimate of engineering properties of soil,

v) lnltial selection of foundation possibilities.

3) DETAILED EXPLORATION:

i) Additional test borings.

ii) Undisturbed sampling if oompressible soils are encountered at critical depth.

iii) Laboratory/Field tests if data on soil .strength and deformation characteristics are needed.

4) ANALYSIS OF RESULTSOF EXPLORATION:

i) Evaluation of settlement characteristics of various soil layers.

ii) Evaluation of bearing capacity of various soil layers.

SPL-5 TEMPORARY FACILITIES for THE ENGINEER

This work consists the entire requirements for the temporary facilities, security and.
protection facilities, rental of field office for the engineers; include water and electrical bills and
consumables for living quarters miscellaneous office supplies.

II. EARTHWORKS:

The work under this project can be described as "the disturbance of land surfaces by
blading, contouring, moving, removing, placing or replacing soil or earth, or by
the excavation, or by cutting or filling operations".

ITEM 803 — STRUCTURE EXCAVATION:

1. All footings shall rest on natural ground. Where excavations for foundations reveal that footing
will rest on fi11, it shall be carried deeper until the desired stratum for safe bearing on
disturbed soil is reached.
2. Whenever water is encountered in any excavation, the same shall be removed by paling or
pumping, care being taken that the surrounding earth is not disturbed.

3. Provide pit run gravel bed in footings.

ITEM 804-a - EMBANKMENT:

This item shall consist of the constnirtion of embankment in accordance with this
specification and in conformity with the lines, grades, and dimensions shown on the Plans
or established by the Engineer.
Embankment shall be constricted of suitable materials which is accepmble in
accordance with the Contract and which can be compacted in the manner specified in this item.
Embankment and backfills shall contain no mud, peat, sod, roots or other deleterious
mstter.

/TEM80Ab-GPAVELBEDD1NG:

This item shall consist of the construction of gravel bedding the every smictural
member; footing, column, slab and etc. to cover of any particles that can cause weak to structure.

IH. CONCRETE FORM WORK:

The work under this project shall includ» the furnishing of all materials, labor, tools,
equipment and other facilities and coristruction necessary as shown on the plans and in
accordance with the specification.

ITEM 404 - REINFORCING STEEL BARS:

All reinforcing steel bars shall be of the sizes and numbers indicated on drawings,
deformed, complying with the latest AS TM specifications for such bars.
At the time concrete .is placed, steel reinforcement shall be free from mud, oil or other non-
metallic coating that adversely affect bending capacity.
All reinforcement shall be bent cold.
Vertical bars of columns shall have a 90 degrees bend and properly anchored at the supporting
footing.
The vertical reinforcement of CHB walls shall extend throughout the entire height of the wall
and shall end with standard hook.
All horizontal reinforcement of CHB wall Shall extend into the adjoining concrete columns
and properly anchored.
Use no. 16 G.I. tie wire for securing reinforcement.

ITEM 405 - STRUCTURAL CONCRETE CLASS “A”:

1. Water used in mixing concrete shall be clean and free. from injurious amount of oils, acids,
alkali, salts, organic materials or other substance that may be deleterious to concrete.

2. Use Portland cement in all concrete works.

3. Use washed gravel and washed sand from the source duly approved by the Materials
Testing and Quality Control Section (MQC),

4. All reinforcing steel bars shall be of the sizes and numbers indicated in the plan,
deformed, complying with the Latest ASTM specifications for such bars.
 5. At the time concrete is placed. steel reinforcement shall be free from mud, oil, or other non-
metallic coating that adversely affect bonding capacity.

6. All concrete mix shall have a minimum compressive strength of fic 27.5 MPa.

7. Plaster and mortar mix at 12 bags per one (1) cubic meter of sand.

IV MASONRY UNITS:

ITEM 506(10) - MASONRY WORKS:

1. Use l50mm x 200 mm x 400mm ordinary machine compressed CHB for exterior wallings,
plastered both faces with l2mm thick plain cument smooth finish.

2. Use l00mm x 200 mm x 400mm ordinary machine compressed CHB for interior callings,
plastered both faces with 12mm thick plain cement smooth finish.

3. Use l00mm x 200 mm x 400mm ordinary machine compressed CHB for corridor zoccalo,
plastered on exterior faces with l2mm thick plain cement smooth finish.

4, Use Portland Cement and Class "A" mixture I :3 for mortar of CHB.

5. Reinforcing steel bars shall have minimum yield strength of 275 MPa. Hooks, bends and
splice shall conform on the ACI Code requirements.

6. Use #16 G.I. tie wire for securing reinforcement.

1027 - Plain Cement Plaster Finish (Beck to Back)

The work under this project for the protective and/or decorative coating of walls and ceilings
and for moulding and casting decorative elements. It usually means a material used for the
interiors of buildings, while "render" commonly refers to .external applications.

V - FABRICATED MATERIALS & HARDWARES

ITEM 1002(a) — PLUMDING FIXTURE & CASY IRON SOIL PIPE WfPITTINGS

This item shall consist of furnishing all materials, tools, equipment and fixtures required
as shown on the Plans for the satisfactory performance of the entire plumbing system including
installation in accordance with the latest edition of the National Plumbing Code, and this
specification
All piping materials, fixtures and appliances fitting accessories whether specifically mentioned
or not but necessary to complete this item shall be furnished and installed.
Pipes shall be PVC blue conforming to specification requirements with threaded connection.
Under roads where necessary shall be suitably protected as shown on the plans.
Valves for water supply shall be bronze body with threaded ends rated 21.0 kgf/cm
square. All valves shall be gate valves unless otherwise specified. Gate valves shall have solid
wedge body and discs conforming to specification requirements defined in ASTM B-62. Globe
valves shall have plug type discs with ferrule threaded ends and bronze body.
 Start roofing installation by placing the fim sheet in position with ths downtumed edge in line with
other building elements and fastened to supports as recommended.
Place the downtumed edge of the next sheet over the edge of the first sheet, to provide side
lap and hold the side lap firmly in place. Continue the same procedure for subsequent sheets
until thu whole roofing area is covered ands/or (Adopt installation procedure provided iti the
instniction manuel for each type of architectural molded rib profile section.)
End laps:
In .ease handling or transpoñ cnnsidemtion requires to use two or more end lapped sheets to
provide MI length coverage for the roof run, Install each line of sheets from botiom to top or
from cave line to apex Df mol flaming. Prfrvide 5o0mm-end lapping.
Por steel frame up to 4.5mm thick use self drilling screw no. 12 by 35mm long hexagonal head with
neoprene washer.
For steel support up to 5mm thick or more use thread cutting saw no. 12 by 40mm long hexagonal
head with neoprene washer.
Side lap fastener use self drilling screw no. 10 by l6mm long hexagonal head with
Neoprene water.

ITEM 403 - STRUCTURAL STEEL:

This work shall consist of steel structures and the metal structure portions of composite
structures, constructed in reasonably close conformity with the lines, grades and dimensions
shown on the plans or established by the Engineer.

This work shall include the furnishing, fabricating, hauling, erecting, welding and
painting of structural metals called for in the Special Provisions or shown on the Plans Structural
will include structure steel, rivet, welding, special and alloy steals steel forging and castings and
iron castings. This work will also include any .incidental metal construction not otherwise provided
for, all in accordance with these specifications, Plans and Special Provisions.

Materials shall meet the requirements of item 712, 8tiuctuml Metal; Item 409, Welded
surer Sri, and item 709, paints.

All metal works shall received one (l) coat of metal primer paint

ITEM 1003 - CARPENTRY WORK

_ Apply coal tar for all wooden surfaces in contact with concrete.
All lumber shall be well seasoned, free from knots, shakes or other imperfections impairing in
strength, durability and or appearance.
1100-Conduits, Boxes and Fittings

This Item shall consist of furnishing all materials, tools, labor and services necessary for the
complete installation of Conduits, Boxes and Fittings required as specified by the plans. The
installation should be done by duly authorized individuals guided by wiring regulations,
e.g. national electrical code and other building codes.

1101- Wires and Wiring Devices

This Item shall consist of firm:shrug all materials, tools, labor and services necessary for
the complete installation of wires and wiring devices. The wires shall be color coded and must be
embedded within the conduits as to prevent it from damage. The installation should be done by
daly authorized individuals guided by wiring regulations, e.g. national electrical code and other
building codes. In line with the plans and specifications provided.

1102- Power Lord Center, Switchgear end Piinel boards

This Item shall consist of furnishing all materials, tools, labor and services necessary for
the complete installation of Switchgear, panel boards & power load centers. This is used to provide
over-current protection & distribute electrical power to individual circuits in a facility. The
installation should be done by duly authorized individuals guided by wiring regulations,
e.g. national electrical code and other building codes. In line with the plans and specifications
provided.

Prepared:

ENGR JOENIFER JR. MONTEBON

CIVIL ENGINEER
PRC # 0150445