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4.2.3.9 — High Strength Steel Tendons

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(1) Where high strength steel is used for tendons in anchor systems used for the permanent support of a foundation or in the erection of temporary support of soil or rock adjacent to an excavation, it shall conform with the requirements of CSA A23.1, “Concrete Materials and Methods of Concrete Construction”.

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excavation

means the space created by the removal of soil, rock or fill for the purposes of construction.

foundation

means a system or arrangement of foundation units through which the loads from a building are transferred to supporting soil or rock.

rock

means a portion of the earth’s crust that is consolidated, coherent and relatively hard and that is a naturally formed, solidly bonded, mass of mineral matter that cannot readily be broken by hand.

soil

means , except for the purposes of Part 8 of Division B, a portion of the earth’s crust that is fragmentary or such that individual particles of a dried sample may be readily separated by agitation in water, and includes boulders, cobbles, gravel, sand, silt, clay and organic matter.

construct

to do anything in the erection, installation, extension or material alteration or repair of a building and includes the installation of a building unit fabricated or moved from elsewhere; Act

construction

has a corresponding meaning to “construct”; Act

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