Standards Development

Scope

This document covers the following products regardless of if manufactured in factories or in temporary plants on site under the same conditions:

a) Precast concrete products intended to be used as structural elements:

— linear structural elements, including columns, beams and frame elements, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products used as bridge elements and products of less than 4,5 m intended to be used as lintels in masonry wall;

— beams made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, with or without clay shells, to be used in conjunction with blocks as beam-and-block system and intended to be used for floor and roofing systems, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water;

— foundation elements, including columns with integrated foundation elements, pocket foundation elements and sockets, made of reinforced concrete or lightweight concrete, including the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products using prestressing steel;

— foundation piles and segments of piles made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, including the use in contact with soil or ground water;

— poles (also called masts), made of concrete or lightweight concrete, hollow or solid, reinforced or prestressed, in one piece or composed of elements and their inserts and connectors, including the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of lighting columns for use in traffic circulation areas;

— bridge deck elements made of concrete, reinforced or prestressed, including the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of abutments, barriers, bumpers, piers, guards and arches;

— floor plates made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, intended to be used in floor systems in conjunction with cast-in-situ concrete, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products used as bridge elements, and products with stiffening ribs taking a major part of the mechanical resistance, considered either as ribbed floor elements or hollow-core slabs;

— solid slabs made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, without voids or void formers intended to be used as self-supporting structural elements, such as floors, roofs, landings and balconies, which can be installed without a structural topping but to which a structural topping can be added, and with a cross section which is rectangular but may present slopes for drainage, grooves for handling and shear keys, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of balustrades without structural behaviour and slabs manufactured using hollow core slabs manufacturing process;

— hollow core slabs and solid slabs manufactured in the same way but without hollow cores, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, with a maximum depth of 500 mm for prestressed elements and 300 mm for reinforced elements, to be used in conjunction with cast-in-situ concrete or without it, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water;

— ribbed floor elements made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, intended to be used for floors and roofs, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of floor plates for floor systems;

— floor slats for livestock made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, intended to be used for the housing of livestock, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products used as load bearing elements other than stock and stockmen, and of prestressed single slat beams;

— hollow core, multilayer and composite loadbearing wall elements, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of retaining walls;

— cladding elements, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, intended to be used as non-loadbearing elements, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of non-reinforced cladding elements with a maximum size of 2,25 m2, a maximum length of 1,5 m and a thickness smaller than 80 mm, which are considered non-structural;

— solid, hollow, multilayer and special roof elements, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of ribbed floor elements and floor slabs elements;

— stairs (monolithic) made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, and kits of stairs constructed from individual steps, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water;

— retaining walls, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, including the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of retaining walls intended to retain tanks or reservoirs of liquid and precast diaphragm walls (concrete sheet piling);

— rectangular cross-section box culverts, made of reinforced concrete or lightweight concrete, intended to be used as continuous elements for the creation of voids below ground, cable tunnels and subways, including the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of box culverts having both internal cross-sectional dimensions less than or equal to 1 250 mm which are considered non-structural, of products using prestressing steel, and of non-monolithic products;

— rectangular prismatic junction boxes, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, including the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products using prestressing steel;

— garages as monolithic unit or as kits of single or double sections, made of reinforced concrete or lightweight concrete, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products used as supporting upper structures and products using prestressing steel.

b) Precast concrete products not intended to be used as structural elements:

— fence elements, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, including posts, panels, rails and base panels, intended to be used as light-structural or non-structural elements, including the use in contact with soil or ground water;

— hollow core shuttering blocks, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, to be used for form walls and partitions intended to be used as loadbearing and non-loadbearing elements, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of masonry units;

— wood-chip hollow core shuttering blocks, to be used for form walls and partitions intended to be used as loadbearing and non-loadbearing elements in conjunction with concrete infill, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products intended to be used unfilled;

— composite wall elements made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, intended to be used as non-loadbearing element, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water;

— cladding elements, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, non-reinforced, with a maximum size of 2,25 m2, a maximum length of 1,5 m and a thickness smaller than 80 mm, intended to be used as non-loadbearing elements, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water;

— rectangular cross-section box culverts, made of reinforced concrete or lightweight concrete, having both internal cross-sectional dimensions less than or equal to 1 250 mm (small box culverts), intended to be used as light structural or non-structural continuous elements, for the creation of voids below ground, cable tunnels and subways, including the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products using prestressing steel and non-monolithic products;

— heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) flue elements, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, intended to be used to convey heating, ventilation, and air conditioning gases, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products intended to be used to convey smoke from a furnace, boiler or combustion chamber, products intended to be used to convey, control or limit smoke and fire propagation, and products using prestressing steel.

c) Blocks intended to be used as structural elements in conjunction with beams as beam-and-block system:

— precast concrete blocks made of concrete, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water;

— precast concrete blocks made of lightweight concrete, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water;

— blocks made of clay, with or without clay shells, to be used for floor and roofing systems, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water;

— blocks fully made of EPS or combined with different materials, and permanent formworks made of EPS, including the use in contact with indoor air;

— lightweight permanent formworks made of wood, plastic, cardboard, glass reinforced plastic, agglomerated stone, metal or a combination of them to be used as permanent formwork, including the use in contact with indoor air, to the exclusion of lightweight permanent formworks made of EPS.

This document does not cover:

— masonry and ancillary products;

— roof covering products for discontinuous laying;

— chimney components;

— products for wastewater treatment;

— paving units and kerbs;

— road equipment;

— prefabricated reinforced components of autoclaved aerated concrete or light-weight aggregate concrete with open structure;

— the design, production, handling, installation of the elements and the water tightness of joints between elements.