PUNJAB P. W. D.

SPECIFICATIONS
1963 (Reprint)

Second Edition-1980 CHANDIGARH Printed by the Controller, Printing & Stationery Deptt. U.T. Chandigarh.

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PREFACE
Hitherto all the branches of P.W.D. have been referring to separate books of Specifications which were either incomplete or out of date in many respects. The object of bringing out this hand book of P.W.D. Specifications is to provide complete, up-to-date and uniform specifications which will be applicable to all the branches of the Public Works Department in the State. This book is a supplement to the Common Schedule of Rates and describes in precise terms the intention behind each item of work as given in the Common Schedule of Rates. It supersedes all the books of Specifications previously in force in the various branches. For the sake of clarity and easy reference, the serial numbers of the chapters have been made to correspond to the chapters in the Common Schedule of Rates. The Specifications given in this book will serve as standard specifications which will supply to normal construction and maintenance works. For big projects and specialized works, the Chief Engineer concerned may issue separate specifications and separate Schedule of hates for any or all items of work. In case where new methods of construction have to be employed, the authority competent to give technical sanction shall lay down specifications for such items which shall be attached to the detailed estimate at the time of according technical sanction. Where deviation and alterations from the Standard Specifications, as laid down in this book, are desired, specially drafted specification should be attached to the estimate and the suspension of the standard specifications made clear, the rates of such items of work as given in the Common Schedule of Rates being suitably amended. The authority to make any deviations or alterations, as suggested above, shall be the same as is competent to accord technical sanction to the detailed estimate. has been made to any Indian Standard Wherever a reference issued by the Indian Standard Institution, it shall be taken as a reference to the latest version of the Standard. Wherever reference has been made to any standard other than the Indian

Standards, the same shall be superseded by the relevant Indian Standard when the latter comes into force. Wherever, any dimensions or weights are given, their equivalents in metric units have also been given within brackets. These equivalents have been based on exact conversions but have been suitably rounded off in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Indian Standards Institution. The metric units will be followed only when the Sate P.W.D. switches over to metric units of weights and measures. In the transition stage when both the systems may be existing side by side the Executive Engineer will determine which of the two units will be followed in case of any particular item of work.

Issued by the authority of

COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION OF CHIEF IEF ENGINEERS, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, PUNJAB,

COMPOSTION FO THE COMMITTEE OF DIRECTIONS OF CHIEF ENGINEERS

BUILDINGS AND ROADS BRANCH 1. Shre G.C. Khanna. 2. Shri D. C. Sharma. CAPITAL PROJECT 3. Shri G. R. Nangea. PUBLIC HEALTH BRANCH 4. Shri Balwant Singh. IRRIGATION BRANCH 5. Shri R. L. Khanna. 6. Shri. C. L. Handa. 7. Shri M.R. Chopra. 8. Shri S. N. Ravikant. 9. Shri G. S. Sandhu. 10. Shri. B. R. Palta. 11. Shri Jatindra Singh. 12. Shri K. L. Bhatia. 13. Shri R. S. Gill. 14. Shri. V. P. Goel. LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE SCHEDULE OF RATES CELL 1. Shri H. C. Malhotra 2. Shri B. S. Mathur 3. Shri H. K. Khosla Superintending Engineer, Pujab, P.W.D., B. & R. Executive Engineer, Pujab, P.W.D., B. & R. Executive Engineer, Pujab, Irrigation Branch.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The publications, specifications and standards mentioned below were consulted during compilation of this Hand-book and the help received form them is gratefully acknowledged:1. American Civil Engineers Hand-book by Merriman and Wiggin. 2. Building Construction by Mitchell. 3. Highway Engineers Hand-book by Harger and Bonney. 4. Specifications 1962 of Architectural Press, London. 5. Irrigation Engineers by K. R. Sharma. 6. Irrigation Outlets by Gulhati. 7. Concrete Plain and Reinforced by Taylor, Thompson and Smulski. 8. Joints and Cracks in Concrete by Critchell. 9. Wood construction by National Committee on Wood Utilization, United States Department of Commerce. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Road Aggregates by Knight. Building Construction by Mackay. Chief Engineers Technical Memoranda of the Punjab P.W.D. & R.) Branch. Military Engineering Service Standards Schedule of Rates. Form Work of Concrete Structures by Wynn. R.C.C. Design by Reynolds. P.W.D. Manual of Irrigation Engineering. Roorkee Treatises on Civil Engineering. Report of Ecafe Seminar on Low Cost Roads and Soil Stabilization. Central P.W.D. Specifications. Punjab Manual of Irrigation Practice. Rajasthan P.W.D. Specifications. Punjab P.W.D. Public Health Specifications. U.P. Irrigation Department Specifications. Madras Detailed Standards Specifications. (B.

25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45.

Maharashtra P.W.D. Hand-hook. Military Engineer Services .1-hand-book. Madras Highway Manual. Standards Specifications Northern Railways Publications of Indian Roads Congress. Indian Standards institute. British Standards Institute. American Society of Testing Materials, United States Bureau or Reclamation. American Concrete Institute. Central Board of Irrigation. Concrete Association of India. Ministry of War Transport, London. National Building Organization, Forest Research Institute. Dehra Dun. British Road Tar Association, London, Burmah Shell. Shalimar Tar Products. Standard Vacuum Oil Company, Caltex. Sahu Cement Works.

CONTENTS
Specification Number CHAPTER 1 Employment of Labour Rules for employment of Departmental Labour on daily wages. Rules for Departmental Labour employed on monthly wages CHAPTER 2 Mortars Mortars (General) Cement-Sand Mortar Lime-Cement-Sand Mortar Lime-Surkhi Mortar Lime-Sand Mortar Mud Mortar CHAPTER 3 Materials Water Earth Clay Brick Manufacture Bricks Flat Brick-tiles Brick-ballast Lime Surkhi Cinders Sand (Fine) Portland Cement White Cement Coloured Cement Timber Plywood Cast Iron Wrought Iron Structural Steel Mild Steel and Medium Tensile Steel Bars for Concrete Reinforcement High Tensile Structural Steel Page

1.1 1.2

1 3

2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6

5 6 7 8 9 10

3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21

11 13 14 15 19 22 23 24 27 28 29 32 36 37 38 40 41 42 44 46 48

Specification Number 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 3.39 3.40 3.41 3.42 3.43 3.44 3.45 3.46 3.47 3.48 3.49 3.50 3.51 3.52 3.53 3.54 3.55

Page Deformed Bars for Concrete Reinforcement Rivet Bars for Structural Purposes High Tensile Rivet Bars for Structural Purposes Wire Gauge Galvanised Iron Wire Plain and Corrugated Galvanized Iron Sheeting Expanded Metal (Steel) Coarse Aggregate for Concrete (Stone) Fine Aggregate from Natural Sources for Concrete Boulders Building Stone Soling Stone Stone Metal Grit Kankar Paints and Allied Materials Exterior Decorative Cement Based Paint Dry Distemper Oil Bound Distemper Tar and Bitumen Door and Window Fittings Glass Panes Pigments Plain Linoleum Insulation Board White Glazed Tiles Hessian Cloth Marble Chippings Asbestos Cement Corrugated Sheets and Fittings Air-entraining Admixtures in Concrete Pozzolana Portland Pozzolana Cement Cast Iron Rain Water Pipes and Fittings Brick Bats (Stacking) CHAPTER 4 Loading and Unloading Loading Unloading CHAPTER 5 Carriage Carriage 51 54 56 57 58 59 60 62 66 71 72 74 75 78 80 82 84 85 86 87 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 99 102 103 104 106

4.1 4.2

107 108

5.1

109

Specification Number CHAPTER 6 Earthwork 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10 6.11 6.12 Silt Clearance Earthwork Excavation. Embankments and Cuttings Dressing of Earthwork Puddling Earthwork Excavation of Foundations Earth Filling Earthwork over Roofs Repairs to Earthwork Trufing of Slopes (Rough Grassing) Making of Lawn Planting Hedges Compaction of Earthwork CHAPTER 7 Rock Cutting 7.1 7.2 Rock Cutting Blasting Operations CHAPTER 8 Demolition 8.1 Demolition CHAPTER 9 Centring and Shuttering 9.1 9.2 Centring and Shuttering (Technical Specifications) Centring and Shuttering (Contract Specifications) CHAPTER 10 Concrete Mud Concrete Lime Concrete, Ordinary Lime Concrete, Fine Cement Concrete for Ordinary Structures

Page

111 112 121 122 123 125 126 127 129 130 131 132

139 142

149

151 154

10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4

161 162 164 165

Specification Number 10.5 Plum Concrete 10.6 Cement Concrete for Dams and other Massive Structures 10.7 Reinforced Concrete (Technical Specifications) 10.8 Reinforced Concrete (Contract Specifications) 10.9 Reinforced Concrete With Brick Plumbing 10.10 Precast Cement Concrete 10.11 Damp Proof Course CHAPTER 11 Brick Work 11.1 Brickwork First Class 11.2 Brickwork Second Class 11.3 Brickwork Third Class 11.4 Jibbi Work 11.5 Sundried Brickwork 11.6 Gilafi Work 11.7 Brickwork in Arches 11.8 Half Brick Thick Masonry 11.9 Reinforced Brickwork 11.10 Brick Tile Masonry and Tile Facing 11.11 Honey-comb Brickwork 11.12 Brick and Tile Jali Work 11.13 Corbelling, Copings Cornices, String Courses, etc. 11.14 Cavity Walls 11.15 Thickness of Brick walls 11.16 Kacha Walls 11.17 Stabilised Cement Soil Walls for Building Construction CHAPTER 12 Stone Masonry 12.1 Stone Masonry General 12.2 Dressing and Cutting Stones 12.3 Ashlar Masonry 12.4 Ashlar Facing 12.5 Cut Stone Work

Page 176 177 213 224 232 234 235

239 246 247 248 249 250 251 255 257 261 262 263 269 272 274 286 287

295 299 301 304 305

Specification Number 12.6 12.7 12.8 12.9 12.10 12.11 12.12 12.13 12.14 12.15 12.16 12.17 12.18 12.19 12.20 12.21 12.22

Page Block-in-Course Masonry Block-in-Course Facing Squared Rubble Masonry Coursed Square Rubble Masonry Built Coursed Squared Rubble Uncoursed or Snecked Rubble Random Rubble Masonry Random Rubble Brought to Course Polygonal Random Rubble Masonry (Kentish Rag.) Boulder Masonry Dry Rubble Masonry Arch Work in Stone Masonry Ashlar Arch Work Block-in-Course Arch Work Rubble Arch Work Copings, Cornices, Columns etc. Dhajji Walls Precast Block Masonry CHAPTER 13 Hoisting and Roofing Hoisting Second Class Mud Roofing Third Class Mud Roofing Precast Cement Concrete Tile Roofing Thatch Roofing Corrugated Iron Roofing Asbestos Cement Sheet Roofing Slate Roofing Paving Roofing with Tiles Painting Roofs with Bitumen Bitumen Felt Water-proofing Treatment Gutters and Flashings Fixing Rainwater Pipes Khurras Parnalas and Spouts Wooden Plank Ceiling Cloth Ceiling Plywood Ceiling Asbestos Sheet Ceiling Insulation Board Ceiling Plaster of Paris Ceiling 306 307 308 311 312 313 314 316 317 318 320 321 322 323 324 325 328

13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 13.9 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 13.16 13.17 13.18 13.19 13.20

331 332 335 336 338 341 343 346 349 350 351 354 355 358 360 361 362 363 364 365

Specification Number CHAPTER 14 Flooring and Dados Flooring (General) Conglomerate Flooring Grey Polished Flooring Brick or Tile Flooring Dry Brick Paving Terrazzo Flooring Precast Terrazzo Tile Flooring White Glazed Tile Flooring Marble Flooring Marble Lining (Veneering) on Walls, Pillars, Skirting, Dado, Risers of Steps Rough Red Stone Flooring Kotah Stone Flooring Rough Kotah Stone Flooring Kotah Stone Lining (Veneering) on Walls, Pillars, Skirting, Dado, Risers of Steps Wooden Board And Strip Flooring Parquet Flooring Linoleum Flooring CHAPTER 15 Plastering, Pointing, White-Washing and Distempering Cement Plaster One Coat Work Cement Plaster Two Coat Work Cement Lime Plaster Lime Plaster Cement Rendering Mud Plaster Gobri Leeping Pointing Striking Joints Whitewashing Colour Washing Distempering Finishing with Cement Paint

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14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 14.7 14.8 14.9 14.10 14.11 14.12 14.13 14.14 14.15 14.16 14.17

367 370 373 374 376 377 380 383 384 387 388 390 391 392 394 397 400

15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 15.9 15.10 15.11 15.12 15.13

403 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 417 418 420 421 423

Specification Number CHAPTER 16 Painting and Varnishing Painting General Painting Wood Work Painting Iron and Steel Work Painting Plastered and Concrete Surfaces Varnishing Oiling Wood Work Bees Waxing Spirit Polishing Painting with Creosote Coaltarring Lettering Painting Mile Stones, Furlong Stones, other Road Side Structures and Distance Marks Removal of Paint CHAPTER 17 Wood Work Woodwork General Doors and Windows General Panelled and Glazed Doors and Windows Battened and Braced Doors and Windows Battened and Framed Doors and Windows Wire Gauze Shutters Cup-board Shutters Wire Gauze or Expanded Metal Glazing Flush Doors CHAPTER 18 Steel and Iron Work General Specifications Steel Work (Ordinary) Structural Steel work Gratings G.I. Sheet Garage Doors G.I. Sheet Sliding Shutters Chick Hooks

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16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.7 16.8 16.9 16.10 16.11 16.12 16.13

425 430 431 433 435 437 438 440 441 442 444 445 446

17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 17.8 17.9 17.10

447 452 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 469

18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 18.7

471 474 475 478 479 480 481

Specification Number 18.8 18.9 18.10 18.11 18.12 18.13

Page Fan Hooks Window Grills Steel Doors and Windows Welding (General) Metal Arc Welding Oxy-Acetylene Welding CHAPTER 19 Canal Lining Canal Lining (General Specifications) Double Layer Tile Lining for Irrigation Channels Single Layer Tile Lining in Bed for Irrigation Channels Cement Concrete Lining for Irrigation Channels CHAPTER 20 Outlets Earthwork for Outlets Dismantling of Outlets Adjustment of Outlets Constructing, Watching and Removing Bund in Running Water for Outlets Laying and Jointing of Reinforced Cement Concrete Pipes for Culverts and Outlets CHAPTER 21 Pile Driving Pile Driving General Steel Sheet Piles Precast Reinforced Concrete Piles CHAPTER 22 Wells and Caissons Open Wells Special Well Foundations Open Caissons Pneumatic Caissons 482 483 484 490 491 495

19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4

499 502 508 510

20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5

515 516 517 518 519

21.1 21.2 21.3

521 523 525

22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4

531 540 542 544

Specification Number CHAPTER 23 River and Canal Protection Works Pilchi, Farash or Sarkanda Pitching Pilchi, Sarkanda and Bamboo Mattresses Gachi Pitching Fixing Floating Spurs in Irrigation Channels Stacking and Bushing Slope Protection with Sand Bags Dry Brick Pitching Wire Crates Dry Stone or Boulder Pitching Grouted Stone Pitching CHAPTER 24 Road Work Preparation of Sub-grade Soling Coat Laying and Consolidation Water Bound Macadam Wearing Course Scarifying Prime Coat Surface Dressing with Tar or Bitumen Premix Carpet (Open Graded Type) Built up Spray Grout Stabilised Soil Road Construction Cement Concrete Pavement Kilometer Stones and Boundary Pillars Road Rollers CHAPTER 25 Maintenance of Furniture Maintenance of Furniture CHAPTER 26 Miscellaneous Cutting down of Trees Sweeping Flues of Chimneys Supplying and Fixing Cotton Cord for Clerestory Windows Jungle Clearance

Page

23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 23.5 23.6 23.7 23.8 23.9 23.10

547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 557

24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 24.5 24.6 24.7 24.8 24.9 24.10 24.11 24.12

559 561 563 570 571 572 576 580 582 585 608 609

25.1

611

26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4

613 614 615 616

Specification Number CHAPTER 27 Quantities of Materials Quantities of Materials CHAPTER 28 Water Supply General Excavation for Pipe Lines Cast Iron Pipelines Galvanized Iron or Mild Steel Pipelines with screw joints CHAPTER 29 Sewerage and Drainage General Excavation etc. for Sewers Earthwork Excavation for Open sullage Drains and Outfall Drains, etc. Earthwork Excavation for Storage Tanks, Pump Houses, Sumps etc. Clay Puddle Reimbursement of Drains and Flooring in Strips Flooring and Paving Clay and Dry Concrete Manhole, Ventilating Shafts and other Accessories Painting of Ventilating Shafts Brick Sewers Laying and Jointing Glazed Stoneware Pipe Sewers Laying and Jointing, Plain and Reinforced Concrete Pipe Sewers Cast Iron Sewers and Rising Main Construction of Reinforced Concrete Sewers, Junctions, Storm Overflows and other Works constructed in situ Construction of Manholes, Screening Chamber, Section Sumps, Collecting Tanks, etc. Constructing of Flushing Tanks Construction of Punjab Standard Type Drains and House Outlet Connections

Page

27.1

617

28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4

619 620 626 634

29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 29.5 29.6 29.7 29.8 29.9 29.10 29.11 29.12 29.13 29.14 29.15 29.16 29.17 29.18

641 650 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 673 674 678 684 690 691 694 697 698

Specification Number CHAPTER 30 Sanitary Installations Sanitary Installation, Drainage and Internal Water Supply Indian Type Water Closet Suites European Type Water Closet Suites Anglo-Indian Type Water Closet Suite Lavatory Suites Sinks Urinals Bath Tubs Toilet Requisites General Heavy Cast Iron Pipes and Specials Lead Pipes and Fittings Internal Drainage Works Internal Water Supply CHAPTER 31 Electrical Installations in Buildings Electrical Work (General) Wood Casting Wiring Conduit System Cleated Wiring System (for Temporary Installations only) Metal Sheathed Wiring System Tough Rubber Covered Wiring System Overhead Lines Earthing Lighting Conductor APPENDICES Table Showing Recommended Mortar mixes for different Items of Works Standard Soil Classification System Field Identification tests for soils Testing of Bricks Table of Physical Requirement of Building Lime Storing of Timber Physical Requirements and Tests of Stone Metal and Grit for Road Works

Page

30.1 30.2 30.3 30.4 30.5 30.6 30.7 30.8 30.9 30.10 30.11 30.12 30.13 30.14

701 702 705 708 709 712 715 719 720 725 726 735 737 740

31.1 31.2 31.3 31.4 31.5 31.6 31.7 31.8 31.9 Appendix I II III IV V VI VII

747 757 759 761 763 764 765 767 769

771 772 775 776 781 783 785

APPENDIX Contd.. VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI Table of Makes and grades of tars and bitumens for road construction, for surface dressing and semi-grouting Compaction and Penetration Resistance Test Field density test Needle moisture and needle density test Explosive magazines Destruction of Explosives Preliminary test for Compression Strength of Concrete Work test for Compression Strength of Concrete Determination Consistency of concrete by Slump test Determination of consistency of concrete by Vee-Bee Consistometer Method Untested steel for Reinforced Concrete Work Methods for superelevating the road surface at Curves Sampling aggregate for laboratory testing Abstract of regulations for the electrical equipment of buildings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, referred to in the Specification No. 31.1 (Clause 2) Table of Conventional Symbols NOTES Method of design of Cement Concrete Mixes Instruction for making reinforced concrete battens Precautions to be taken to prevent cracks in buildings Leak-proofing of Roofs Durable dairy and ghee factory floors Depth of Scour and section of stone aprons Use of kiln Seasoned Timber Termite Shields Suggested specification for construction or reconstruction of roads in waterlogged areas Wind pressure to be considered for design of structures TABLES Basic units and conversion factors Unit weights of building materials and building parts, etc.

Page 786 788 797 800 803 806 807 811 815 817 820 822 825

XXII 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1. 2.

827 833 835 848 852 855 864 866 870 876 877 878 881 884

3. 4. 5. 6. (a) & (b) 7. 8. (a) 8. (b) 8. (c) 9. 10. (a) 10. (b) 11. (a) 11. (b)

TABLES Contd.. Indians Standard sieves with their other equivalent standard sieves Equivalents of various standard Gauges (non-metric units) Thickness of sheet and diameter of wire in millimeters Mild Steel Joists Live loads on Floors of various types of buildings Area and perimeter of round bars for different spacings per foot width of slab (Non-metric Units) Weight, Perimeter and Area of Metric Steel Bars (Metric Units) Area of Steel Bars for various Spacings (Metric Units) R.C.C. battens first roofs (Batten spaced 12 inches C/C) Section of battens suitable for flat mud roofs (Non-metric units) Section of Battens suitable for flat mud roofs (Metric Units) Safe loads on Deodar and Kail planking (Non-metric units) Safe Loads on Kail Planking (Metric units)

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