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B/ESTIMATING AND QUANTITIES

Bar bending schedules, bar by bar.

From your reinforcement drawings, we schedule every bar with its shape, leg lengths and cutting length, ready for the bar yard, and give the steel weight to cut and the weight measured for payment. When the drawings are revised, the schedule is too.
Shape, legs, cutting length
Every bar
To cut, and for payment
2 weights
And SP 34 detailing
IS 2502
Formulas, revised with drawings
Live
B-01/WHAT YOU SEND, WHAT YOU GETSAMPLE
YOU SEND

The reinforcement drawings and their bar schedules, and revisions as they're issued.

DWGReinforcement drawingsPDFSchedules of reinforcementPDFRevisions as issued
WE PREPARE

Our AI does the first pass and marks anything it isn’t sure of. An engineer resolves every marked item and signs the work off.

YOU GET

A bar bending schedule in Excel with live formulas, a steel summary by diameter, and a list of anything the drawings leave open, such as curtailment levels or end details.

BAR BENDING SCHEDULE · WING WALL, S1SIGNED OFF
MARKDIALOCATIONNO.CUT (MM)
a120Stem, earth face46,449
a312Stem, front face76,477
a416Base, bottom44,486
a220Curtailment not shown4Confirm

ILLUSTRATIVE SAMPLE

B-02/WHAT'S INCLUDED04 PARTS
01

Every bar scheduled

Bar mark, location, shape, diameter, spacing, number, each leg and the cutting length, with bend deductions applied.

02

Varying members handled

Walls and members whose size changes along their length are split into segments, with bar lengths worked out at each position.

03

Steel to cut and to pay

The schedule weight the yard cuts, laps included, and the weight measured for payment under the contract's rules.

04

Revisions

Schedules updated as drawings are revised, so site always cuts from the current set.

B-03/HOW WE DO IT
  1. 01Read the reinforcement drawingsBar marks, shapes, spacing, cover, laps and anchorage, and the schedule of reinforcement by member or height band.
  2. 02Work out each barLeg lengths from the member dimensions, cover and anchorage, with bend deductions for each bend.
  3. 03Check the totalsSchedule total against the summary, bar lengths against stock length, and steel per cubic metre against the usual range for the member.
  4. 04Flag what's openAnything the drawings don't settle is listed with what we assumed and its effect on the steel.
B-04/STANDARDS AND FORMATS
Bending and detailingIS 2502, SP 34, BS 8666 for UK shapes and codes
Bar massIS 1786 nominal mass, or the standard your project uses
Measurement for paymentMoRTH Section 1600, IS 1200 Part 8, or your contract's rules
MembersBridge substructures, wing and retaining walls, piles, pile caps, slabs, beams and columns

Working to something else? Tell us what your project uses and we’ll confirm it before we start.

B-05/FROM OUR WORKCASE STUDY
Wing wall cross-section and reinforcement detailA bar bending schedule for a sloping bridge wing wallA wing wall falling from 6 m to 2 m, scheduled in five segments with every bar worked out and 1.31 t of steel to cut.Read the case study
B-06/QUESTIONS05

Questions about bar bending schedules

Send a project

The schedule weight is what the bar yard cuts, including laps. The measured weight is what's paid, which usually leaves laps, wastage and chairs out. We give both, so the schedule and the bill both reconcile.

Yes. A wall whose height changes along its length is split into segments, and bar lengths are worked out at each position, with the shortest and longest given for each bar.

Send the revision. Because the schedule is built with live formulas, the affected bars are updated and the changes listed, so site cuts from the current set.

IS 2502 and SP 34 in India, BS 8666 in the UK, or the standard your project specifies, including its bend deductions and shape codes.

Yes. We're happy to sign one before you share any drawings.
B-07/ALSO IN ESTIMATING