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OBC 2006 Division B

9.3.1.1.

Version 2 — in force 1 January 2010

In force · amended
Verified · covered Verified against the 2010-01-01–2010-03-31 consolidation, whose range covers the query date. How to read this

Provenance

OBC 1997 · continues from 9.3.1.1. — Pro

OBC 1997 · merged from 9.3.1.9. — Pro

Base · O. Reg. 350/06 · ext v0 →

O. Reg. 137/07, cl. 42 · ext v1 →

In force 2007-04-02

O. Reg. 503/09, cl. 128(2) · ext ← current

In force 2010-01-01

OBC 2012 · continues as 9.3.1.1. — Pro

9.3.1.1. — General

(1) Except as provided in Sentence (2), nominally unreinforced concrete shall be designed, mixed, placed, cured and tested in accordance with CAN/CSA-A438, “Concrete Construction for Housing and Small Buildings”.

(2) Nominally unreinforced site-batched concrete shall be designed, mixed, placed and cured in accordance with Articles 9.3.1.2. to 9.3.1.9.

(3) Except as provided in Sentence (4), Subsection 9.15.4. and Section 9.40., reinforced concrete shall be designed to conform to the requirements of Part 4.

(4) For flat insulating concrete form walls not exceeding 2 storeys in building height, and having a maximum floor to floor height of 3 m, in buildings of light frame construction containing only a single dwelling unit, the concrete and reinforcing shall comply with Part 4 or,

(a) concrete shall conform to CAN/CSA-A23.1, “Concrete Materials and Methods of Concrete Construction”, with a maximum aggregate size of 19 mm, and

(b) reinforcing shall,

(i) conform to CAN/CSA-G30.18-M, “Billet Steel Bars for Concrete Reinforcement”,

(ii) have a minimum specified yield strength of 400 MPa, and

(iii) be lapped a minimum of 450 mm for 10M bars and 650 mm for 15 M bars.

Editor's note

O. Reg. 503/09 amends Sentences (3) and (4) of this article but leaves Subclause (4)(b)(iii) unchanged, so the '15 M bars' spacing described for the prior version carries forward to this version.