Some of the most important requirements that have to be met by Brookings Construction on the erection of the masonry work are stated bellow.

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Some of the most important requirements that have to be met by Brookings Construction on the erection of the masonry work are stated bellow.

Standards AS1302, AS1650, AS1694, AS2699, AS2975, AS3700, AS3972, AS4072, AS4072.1, AS/NZS4455, and the Australian Masonry Manual have to be respected throughout different parts of the masonry section. A contract manager should be appointed the tasks to make sure that all of those standards are being respected.

There should be an allowance for samples that could be or not incorporated in the works depending on approval by the Superintendent those samples will include:  sand samples, six masonry samples of each face type, and two panels.

Delays should be expected when decision from the superintendent or the client have to be made. Those decisions concern, setting up rules for the special face work once the superintendent finished seeing the samples, approving air vent locations before installation, giving the permission for the masonry to be chased, selecting the wall face before the erection of any double-face walls, selecting the face work cement colour and the sand colour during the course of the contract.

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It is required that all ferrous metal items are hot dip galvanised including wall ties and anchors. Bolts have to be made out of stainless steel where fully exposed to the weather and hot dip galvanised or cadmium plated steel elsewhere, reinforcement rods should be galvanised to a coating mass of 290g/m2, steel lintels should be galvanised to a coating mass of 600 g/m2 and reinforced lintel to coating mass of 290 g/m2. During the brick cleaning process adequate ventilation has to be provided to avoid metalware corrosion.

Some items can not be considered functional as soon as ...

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