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Hopefully, if I’ve uploaded the document correctly the link below should be a useful reference for any PET student in Australia dealing with reinforced concrete.  I wish I’d known about the reference on Phase 2 as it would have made site works so much easier.  I just been shown the reference half-way through Phase 3 and wish I’d been shown it at the start of my consultant placement.

Z 06 – Reinforcement Detailing Handbook
Health warning: the link above is based on AS3600-2009 the latest version of the code is now 2018 so check and see which version is being used on your site/project and find the 2018 version if you need to. 

For the civil students, it is a combination of Concise Eurocode 2, Economic Concrete Frame Elements to Eurocode 2 and the concrete equivalent of the blue book.  It also contains detailed guidance on how concrete and reinforcement drawings are drawn to Australian standards (generally not different to UK standards but helps plug the gaps left by Phase 1). 

For any E&M students, it’s a ‘concrete cheat-sheet on steriods’.  Worth a check if you need to know the requirements or principles behind the reinforcement or concrete in reinforced concrete.  The book also contains lots of look-up tables so you don’t have to calculate minimum lengths from the code clauses and explains what all the drawing symbols mean.

A question for the PEW staff – does the wing have a list of useful design references?  If not, it could be a useful reference for the students in Phase 2 and 3 (and beyond) particularly if the list maps the UK standards to the Australian and American equivalents.  Any thoughts?