Importance of Rebar Detailer and Rebar Detailing Placement Drawings

In the rapidly developing of steel construction industry, it is basic for any structural engineer or building contractor to know essential function of rebar placing drawings, duties of a rebar detailers, technique for delivering setting drawings and duty of the steel fabricator.

The ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Manual on the steel construction rules has obviously clarified the contrast between the two kinds of Rebar detail drawings — Placing drawings for concrete reinforcing steel and Shop drawings for structural members. Although fabricators/engineers still feel that structural steel shop drawings and reinforcing steel drawings are the indistinguishable in nature, reason and extension, which isn’t valid from various perspectives!

A rebar detailing service provider is commonly a subcontractor of the steel fabricator. The detailer investigates design data appeared on the structure drawings and project to detail or record all the reinforcing steel members required for a segment of the structure. These specific rebar pieces are then enrolled or appeared by plan on a detail placing drawings.

Typically for Rebars, the ACI (American Concrete Institute) Building Code requires the plan drawings to demonstrate area and size of every structural components and reinforcement, area and kind of welded joins, anchorage length and mechanical connections of reinforcement.

For the most part, Design data will be specific about structural dimensions, amount of reinforcing bars and bar sizes. This regular information isn’t explicit enough to be able to cut to length, create, ship and install rebar directly from the design drawings. Subsequently, the necessity that detail/placing drawings ought to be provided. The detailer must have great numerical and visual skills with extra knowledge of CAD design or drafting systems to furnish accurate drawings for cost effective fabrication.