SAES-Q-001 (Criteria for the Design and Construction of Concrete Structures)

4. Definitions

Hot weather concrete : accelerate the rate of moisture loss or rate of cement hydration of
freshly mixed concrete

Self-consolidating concrete : fresh concrete that can flow and consolidate within formwork under its
own weight.

Mass Concrete : any volume of structural concrete in which a combination of dimensions of the
member being cast.

Sabkha : generally consisting of saturated, loose silty sand posibly clay.

5. General Requirements

•Structural concrete with a minimum dimension equal to or greater than 1200mm should be
considered mass concrete.

•Environmental engineering concrete structures design to store liquids shall be leak tested as per
ACI 350.1

•Cast-in-place structural concrete reinforced with Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bars shall comply
with ACI 440.5

6. Quality Control

All testing shall be in accordance with 09-SAMSS-097 (Ready-Mixed Concrete)

7. Materials

•Cementitious Materials
-Portland Cement (ASTM C150/C150M, Type 1 or Type V)
-Fly Ash (ASTM C618, Class F)
-Natural Pozzolan (ASTM C618)
-Cementitious materials shall be tested monthly basis or when changing the source of
materials

•Reinforcement
-shall be deformed steel (ASTM A615/A615M), Grade 20
-coated reinforcements , Fusion Bonded Epoxy (FBE) as per 09-SAMSS-106.
-welded wire reinforcement shall be plain wire as per ASTM A1064/A1064M.
-Tie wire (black annealed wire), 16 gauge (1.29mm) min., coated with epoxy.
-Manufacturing, Fabrication, handling, placement and storage of steel reinforcement
shall in accordance with ACI 318.

•Masonry Unit
-Hollow and soild load-bearing (ASTM C90) for exterior walls.
-Hollow and solid non-load bearing (ASTM C129) for interior walls.
-Minimum Compressive strength of concrete masonry units shall be 13.1 Mpa (1900 psi)
 •Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC) - ASTM C1116/C1116M, Type II or III.

•Vapor Barrier - Class A minimum 10mil (250 um) thickness ASTM E1745.

8. Design and Execution

Concrete Paving shall be accordance with the following:

Design Requirements
Concrete Paving Areas
Minimum Thickness Slope Reinforcement
Spills, wash water, fire
100mm
water & side walk
Vehicular Traffic 150mm
Slope to the catch basins Not less than 1:65 (1.5%)
or trenches Maximum drop at 200mm
12mm dia. x 800mm long
Protrude Foundations Place diagonally at all
interior corners

•Steel Reinforcement

Concrete Exposure Members Minimum Cover (mm)

Concrete cast against or permanently All

exposed to earth 75 mm
(including foundations over a sub-slab)

Foundations supporting process

equipment such as concrete pedestal
supporting pipe rack, pipe sleepers, or 75 mm
supports for horizontal
Formed concrete exposed to earth or
weather
Buildings, walkway platforms, stairs,
AC pads 50 mm

Beams, columns, and tension ties 50 mm

Concrete not exposed to weather or in
contact with ground
Slabs, walls, joists 25 mm

Concrete exposed to sea water, raw

water or sewage all 75 mm

Sulfur pits
all 75 mm
> shall show number, grade, size, length, mark, location, and bending diagrams for reinforcing bars.

> splices of reinforcement shall be detailed.

> shall be tagged with weather resistant metal tags.

> Fabrication drawings shall indicate the related PO number, release number, and design drawing
number.

•Formwork

Requirements

Chamfer Strips 20mm (3/4 inch) at all corners

Shall not be applied if concrete If not treated with Form Release
Form-Release Agent surfaces shall receive special Agent, soaked with clean water
finishes (e.g Architectural Finishes) and kept moist
For structures do not provide For self-supporting members,
Form Removal vertical support , removed 24 hrs removed if compressive strength is
after completion at 80%.
Formed concrete surfaces As per ACI 117
Provide cleanout openings to
Formwork for column and wall permit inspection and easy
cleaning
Formwork for self-consolidating Should be watertight and grout-
As per ACI 237R
concrete (SCC) tight

• Joints

Requirements
Shall be place where pavement
Isolation Joints adjoins vertical surfaces

Properly aligned to prevent any

Dowels at expansion joints restraint on expansion movement
at the joint
Surface of Joints Shall be clean of scale and
laitance, thoroughly wetted
Maximum spacing of 6m O.C both For Concrete Pavement
directions
Control or Construction Joint Column centerlines and For Slab
intermediate intervals
Expansion Joints Adjacent to all poured Concrete Members
Where watertight construction is
Waterstops Shall be provided in joints required (ACI 350.5)

•Concrete Repair

b) Saudi Aramco shall be notified before proceeding with repair if the defect is any of the following:

1. Depth is greater than 75 mm at the maximum point and surface area is greater than (100,000 mm²).
2. Depth is greater than ¼ the thickness of the member and greater than 150 mm in any other direction.
3. Reinforcing steel is exposed.
c) Prepackage grouts and pacthing compounds similar to the concrete mix without aggregates.

•Embedded Items

> All sleeves, inserts, anchor bolts, waterstops & other embedded items. Welding of this items to the
reinforcing bars shall be permitted

> Reinforcing steel bars, anchor bolts or other steel embedments shall not be connected to the
electrical grounding system.

> Conduits, pipes and other items made from aluminum shall not be embedded in structural concrete
unless effectively coated to prevent aluminum-concrete reaction.

•Placing of Concrete

> Shall be in accordance with ACI 301-16, ACI 304R

> Should have a recorded pre-placement inspection and authorization to proceed by SA

> Standing water shall be removed

> Re-tempering after concrete is mixed shall not be permitted

> Consolidated by mechanical vibrating equipment

> Slabs shall be placed in alternating panels

> Interval between concrete deliveries, no more than 20 minutes interruption elapse during placement

•Finishing

> Shall be in accordance with ACI 301-16 and ACI 117

> Equipment bases - floated finish

Stairs, steps, ramps & walks - broom finish

•Curing

> Shall be in accordance with ACI 301-16

> Max. total dissolved solids (TDS) in water 1000 parts per million (ppm)

> Water curing shall be continuous - compressive strength has reached 70%
- 7 days

> Saturated burlaps - covered with a plasticized sheet vapor barrier, min. 0.15mm (6mils) thickness

> Curing compound shall not be used on surfaces that shall receive bonded treatments, tiles, paint
or other adhered finishes, epoxy toppings

> For Environmental Engineering Structures - curing minimum of 14 days

•Coating and Protection

> Plasticized Sheet Vapor Barrier - Class A, min. 0.25 mm (10mils) thickness, placed beneath slab on
grade

> Lean Concrete - minimum 50 mm, placed beneath foundations

> All concrete surfaces direct contact with earth - coated with two (2) coats of coal tar or bitumen
coating
- APCS-3 or APCS-10

•Concrete Underground Ducts

> Envelopes shall be colored for communication and electrical ducts

•Sulfur Pits

> Minimum concrete cover -75mm

> High Performance SCC - compressive strength 50MPa

- Slump flow shall be 650mm +/- 80mm

> Curing compounds shall not be used to cure sulfur pit concrete