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DIVISION – GENERAL REQUIREMENTS DIVISION GENERAL REQUIREMENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Items Page 01000- General Provisions .2 01050- General Work .9 01100– Contractor’s Mobilization and Demobilization 19 01150- Contractor’s Submittals 27 01200– Contractor’s Drawings 34 01300- Program of Works 43 01400- Monthly Progress Reports 50 01500- Project Safety 54 01600– Maintenance and Protection of Traffic .63 01700- Environmental Control and Protection 75 01750– Laboratory and Contractor’s Equipment 93 01800- Contractor’s Quality Control .109 01850- Acceptance of Work 124 01900– Control of Materials 139 GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS of 172 DIVISION – GENERAL REQUIREMENTS General Provisions - Section 01000 SECTION 01000 GENERAL PROVISIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS Description 1.1 Main Contents of the Specifications 1.2 Abbreviations 1.3 Units of Measure Requirements 2.1 Applicable Standards 2.2 Requirements Classification GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS 01000 - of 172 DIVISION – GENERAL REQUIREMENTS General Provisions - Section 01000 SECTION 01000 - GENERAL PROVISIONS DESCRIPTION The “General Specifications” shall be applied complementarily to the Conditions of Contract and the Technical Specifications ＂ Approval ＂ or ＂ Acceptance ＂ used in this Specifications shall be effective with written documents Verbal Approval or Acceptance shall be authorized by the written documents later MAIN CONTENTS OF THE SPECIFICATIONS The Specifications included the Conditions of Contract and General Specifications ABBREVIATIONS In addition to the “Definitions and Interpretations” shown in Clause of the General Conditions of Contract, the following abbreviations are used in the General Specifications and Bill of Quantities and they shall be interpreted as follows: AASHTO ACI American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials American Concrete Institute ANSI American National Standards Institute ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials AC or A/C Asphalt Concrete BS British Standard BOQ Bill of Quantities CBR California Bearing Ratio CPM Critical Path Method CSI Construction Standards Institute Dia or  Diameter Diaph Diaphragm Dwg or Drg Drawing Ea Each EMAP Environmental Management Action Plan FHWA Federal Highway Administration of USA Guss Gusset ID Inner-Diameter IRI International Roughness Index JIS Japanese Industrial Standards GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS 01000 - of 172 DIVISION – GENERAL REQUIREMENTS 1.1 UNITS General Provisions - Section 01000 HV High Voltage LV Low Voltage Max., max Maximum Min., Minimum MONROE Ministry of National Resources and Environment MUTCD No Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices NLEP National Law on Environment Protection OD Outer-Diameter PC or PrsC Prestressed Concrete PCC Portland Cement Concrete PrcC Precasted Concrete PSP Project Safety Plan QA Quality Assurance QC Quality Control QCP Quality Control Plan RC Reinforced Concrete ROW Right-Of-Way TCVN Vietnamese National Standards TCN Vietnamese Industrial Standards TCP Temporary Traffic Control Plan Spl Splice OF Number MEASURE Unless otherwise stated in these Specifications, all units of measure used herein and in the Bill of Quantities and Rates and Unit Prices are expressed in the standard metric system Abbreviations of Unit used in the Specifications are as follows: °C or oC Celsius or Centigrade °F Fahrenheit cm Centimetre(s) cu.m or m3 Cubic metre(s) gr Gram G/m3 Grams per cubic metre Ha Hectare HP or Hp Horsepower(s) Hz Hertz (Cycles per Second ) Kg Kilogram(s) Kg/cm2 Kilogram per square centimetre Kg/cm3 Kilogram per cubic centimetre GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS 01000 - of 172 DIVISION – GENERAL REQUIREMENTS General Provisions Kg/m2 Kilogram per square metre Kg/m3 Kilogram per cubic metre Km Kilometre Km/h Kilometre per hour L or lt Litre(s) lm or m Linear Metre(s) m2 or sq m Square meter(s) m3 or cu.m Cubic metre(s) mm Millimetre(s) mm2 mm MPa or sq - Section 01000 Square millimetre(s) Mega Pascal m/s Meter per second mg/L Milligram per litre N Newton N/mm2 Newton per square millimetre rpm Revolutions per minute ppm Percent per million sq cm or cm2 Square centimetre(s) T, t or ton Metric ton (1000kg) USD or $ United States Dollar W or Wt Weight VND or VD Vietnamese Dong REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE STANDARDS (a) The newest versions of currently applicable Vietnamese Standards, codes in technical matters shall prevail to the Specifications If there are any discrepancies in the requirements and statements in the Specifications, the clarifications and/or the decisions by the Engineer shall prevail in any case of discrepancy, ambiguity or contradiction (b) Unless otherwise specifically provided in the Specifications, or the Drawings, the standards, codes described on the materials, acceptance tolerance, measurement or payment methods etc., the Engineer shall advise the Contractor appropriate measures for the solutions GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS 01000 - of 172 DIVISION – GENERAL REQUIREMENTS General Provisions - Section 01000 (c) If the Contractor’s proposed materials are produced in compliance with standards other than those specified above, then the Contractor shall submit, for the Engineer’s review and approval, a detailed construction statement including construction drawings and engineering data, documentation including cross reference that the proposed standards of his materials are, at least, comparable to those specified in the Specifications and are in compliance with the equivalent standards which are internationally recognized (d) During construction period, the Contractor and Supervision Consultants shall comply with “Standards applied for Survey and Design of Noi Bai – Lao Cai Highway Project”, which was approved via Decision No.2223/QD-BGTVT dated 17 July, 2007 by Ministry of Transport List of applicable standards is shown in the Table 2.1 below: Table 2.1 – List of Applicable Standards No Name of Standard Code Geological Survey in Construction – General Requirements TCXD 2004 Specifications for Mapping 96 TCN 43 – 90 Specifications for Road and Highway Survey 22 TCN 2000 Specifications for Geological Survey and Design of Roadbed Stabilization in area with slippage and erosion 22 TCN 171 -87 Specifications for Geological Boring 22 TCN 2000 Technical Survey for Design and Construction of Pile Foundation 20 TCN 160 – 87 Specifications of Survey and Design or Roads and Highway in Soft Soil Areas 22 TCN 2000 262 – Specifications for Geological Survey for Waterway Works 22 TCN 2000 260 – Specifications for Determination of Elastic Module of Wearing Course by Benkelmen Beam 22 TCN 251 – 98 10 Specifications for Testing (CPT and CPTU) 22 TCN 320 – 04 11 Expressway – Design requirements (*) TCVN GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS VN 309- 263 259 5729 - – – 01000 - of 172 DIVISION – GENERAL REQUIREMENTS General Provisions - Section 01000 1997 12 Highway – Design Requirements TCVN 4054-05 13 Urban Road – Design Requirements TCXDVN 104:2007 14 Highway Design Standard (interchange portion) 22 TCN 273-01 15 Specifications for Design of Rural Roads (applied for side roads, frontage road) 22 TCN 210-92 16 Design Standards for Bridge (and culverts) 22TCN 272-05 17 Railway Tunnel and Highway Tunnel – Design Standards TCVN 4527-88 18 Specifications for Design of Earth Retaining Walls QP 23-65 19 Specifications for Environmental Impact Assessment upon FS Formation and Design 22 TCN 242-98 20 Specifications for Design of Rigid Wearing Course 22 TCN 223-95 21 Specifications for Design of Flexible Wearing Course 22 TCN 211-06 22 Design of Flexible pavement AASHTO 1993 (edition 2001) 23 Road and Highway Pavement (*) 22 TCN 237-01 24 Sign Board on Expressway 22 TCN 331-05 25 Specifications for Design and Treatment of Soft Soil Layer by Drain Wicks 22 TCN 244-98 26 Geo-textile in Construction of Embankment in Soft Soil Area 22 TCN 248-98 27 Calculation of the Particulars of Flood Flow 22 TCN 220-95 28 Transport Projects in Earthquake Area – Design Standards 22 TCN 221–95 29 Design of Earthquake Resisting Works TCXDVN 357:2006 30 Loading Capacity and Impact TCVN 2737–95 31 Pile Foundation – Design Standards 20 TCN 21–86 32 Bored Pile – Specifications for Construction and Acceptance 22 TCXDVN 2362004 33 Bored Pile, Design, Construction and Acceptance 22 TCN 257-2000 GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS 01000 - of 172 DIVISION – GENERAL REQUIREMENTS General Provisions - Section 01000 34 PC Anchors T13, T15 & D13, D15 22 TCN 267-2000 35 Steel Sheet Reinforced Rubber Bearings AASHTO 0251-96 36 Standards of Rubber Elastic Joints AASHTO M29796; AASHTO M183-96 37 Cement Concrete 22 TCN 60-84 38 Steel Structure, Design Standard TCXDVN 2005 39 Construction Steels TCVN 1651-85 40 Reinforcement Bars (hot rolled) ASTM A416-85 41 Standards for Design of Artificial Lighting for Urban Street & Square TCXDVN 2592001; TCXDVN 333:2005 42 Specifications of Electric Facilities 19 TCN 19; 11 TCN 20; TCVN 4756-89 43 Specifications for Tunnel Design 11 TCN 19-84 44 Design of Drainage Network outside of the Structures 22 TCN 51-84 45 Specifications Waterway TCVN 5664-92 46 Specifications for Thick Bitumen Material Technical Requirement and Testing Method – 22 TCN 279-01 47 Technical Specifications and Testing Method for POLIME Bitumen 22 TCN 319-04 for Classification of Inland 338- REQUIREMENTS CLASSIFICATION Work is paid for directly or indirectly according to each respective Section of work as specified in Sub-section “Measurement and Payment” of the respective Section, and some of specified items shall be adjusted according to Specification Section 01850 “Acceptance of Work” The requirements established in this Specification Section are classified into the following types: GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS 01000 - of 172 DIVISION – GENERAL REQUIREMENTS General Provisions - Section 01000 Indirectly Paid Work: The requirements for those items for which measurement for separate payment is not needed because they are deemed included in the rates and prices for other main items, or distributed among all the pay items listed in the Bill of Quantities Directly Paid Work: The requirements for those items for which a separate payment will be made based on the quantities measured and approved in accordance with this Specification Section Inherently Paid Work: The items or requirements established or described in these Specifications but not listed for payment as specific Pay Items in the Bill of Quantities, are deemed included in or distributed among all the rates and prices entered in the unit prices of the Bill of Quantities Separate payment will not be made for these items and claims based on miss-consideration of the same will be rejected GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS 01000 - of 172 DIVISION – GENERAL REQUIREMENTS GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS General Provisions - 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