Manufacturing in RCC Construction – Prefabricated

rebars
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By
Priyanka Gupta

Three decades back, a construction site was a place where all building materials were
brought in fabricated or mended as per need and then used. For example cement, sand,
stonechips and water was assembled at construction site; mixed as per design and
used. Brick kilns were the only manufacturing/ prefabrication done in advance for
construction. Storing of inventory at construction sites wasvery much prevalent.

The concept of factories and automobile industry like ‘lean engineering’, ‘just in time
delivery’ and prefabrication have changed the very picture of construction site. But till
early 2000 prefabrication in construction rebars was only in concept. Around 2010
prefabrication of TMT rebars started in India and now it has become indispensable for
both large as well as small scale project.

In low rise houses like G+1 to G+4 the usual cut and bend in rebars are stirrups for
beams, links for columns, C-shaped & L-shaped bars for isolated footings and crank bars
for columns. There are primary steel manufacturers in India which provide prefabrication
service for rebars. These manufacturers also make the commonly used shapes and
sizes already available at retail shops which are only a call away.

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 IS 1786-2008 Table 4 – Referred for prefabrication

Advantages of using prefabricated rebars

V/S manually cut and bent material at site

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Sl. Prefabricated Site made
No. steel rebars rings and
pieces

1. Available in Need based

most common manufacturing,
sizes. One needs lead
can even mix time to cut and
and match the bend.
sizes.

2. Machine Manually bent

made with at site,
accurate expertise
shape and depends on
size the expertise
confirming to available at
IS: 1786 & IS: site
456.

3. No need of Mostly
power electrical
connection at equipment are
site for cutting used for
rebars. cutting, which
is at times
dangerous too.

4. No on-site On-site
bending bending is
required required

5. No micro During manual

cracks on the bending, bar
bends as benders
proper ignore the
mandrels are norms for
used correct
mandrel
diameter to be
used for
bending as per
IS:1786.

6. Zero wastage 10% wastage

of cut lengths of rebar in
quantity

7. Available in Not applicable

ready to use
bundles at
local steel
dealers

8. Need only 2 Need 7 days

days to finish to finish
concreting concreting
foundation foundation
alone alone

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 9. No Dependence
dependence on availability
on labor at of skilled labor
site for cut to cut and
and bend bend.

10. No pilferage Pilferage and

at site hence loss of
money at site

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We at engineeringcivil.com are thankful to Er Priyanka Gupta for submitting this very
important paper to us.

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