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This document covers the following products regardless of if manufactured in factories or in temporary plants on site under the same conditions: a) Precast concrete products intended to be used as structural elements: - linear structural elements, including columns, beams and frame elements, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products used as bridge elements and products of less than 4,5 m intended to be used as lintels in masonry wall; - beams made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, with or without clay shells, to be used in conjunction with blocks as beam-and-block system and intended to be used for floor and roofing systems, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water; - foundation elements, including columns with integrated foundation elements, pocket foundation elements and sockets, made of reinforced concrete or lightweight concrete, including the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products using prestressing steel; - foundation piles and segments of piles made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, including the use in contact with soil or ground water; - poles (also called masts), made of concrete or lightweight concrete, hollow or solid, reinforced or prestressed, in one piece or composed of elements and their inserts and connectors, including the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of lighting columns for use in traffic circulation areas; - bridge deck elements made of concrete, reinforced or prestressed, including the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of abutments, barriers, bumpers, piers, guards and arches; - floor plates made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, intended to be used in floor systems in conjunction with cast-in-situ concrete, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of products used as bridge elements, and products with stiffening ribs taking a major part of the mechanical resistance, considered either as ribbed floor elements or hollow-core slabs; - solid slabs made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, without voids or void formers intended to be used as self-supporting structural elements, such as floors, roofs, landings and balconies, which can be installed without a structural topping but to which a structural topping can be added, and with a cross section which is rectangular but may present slopes for drainage, grooves for handling and shear keys, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of balustrades without structural behaviour and slabs manufactured using hollow core slabs manufacturing process; - hollow core slabs and solid slabs manufactured in the same way but without hollow cores, made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, with a maximum depth of 500 mm for prestressed elements and 300 mm for reinforced elements, to be used in conjunction with cast-in-situ concrete or without it, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water; - ribbed floor elements made of concrete or lightweight concrete, reinforced or prestressed, intended to be used for floors and roofs, including the use in contact with indoor air and the use in contact with soil or ground water, to the exclusion of floor plates for floor systems; (...)

This document shall cover, regardless if manufactured in factories or in temporary plants on site under the same conditions, prefabricated reinforced components of autoclaved aerated concrete with a dry density between 250 and 1000 kg/m3 to be used in building construction as: — solid, hollow core and multilayer wall elements intended to be used as structural elements; — solid, hollow core and multilayer wall elements intended to be used as non-structural elements and if relevant for applications in contact with soil and ground water; — retaining walls intended to be used as structural elements and if relevant for applications in contact with soil and ground water; — solid, hollow core and multilayer roof elements intended to be used as structural elements; — solid, hollow core and multilayer floor elements intended to be used as structural elements; — solid, hollow core beams intended to be used as structural elements; — solid piers intended to be used as structural elements and if relevant for applications in contact with soil and ground water; — cladding elements intended to be used as non-loadbearing elements; — rectangular cross-section box culverts intended not to be used as structural elements and if relevant for applications in contact with soil and ground water; — components for noise barriers intended not to be used as structural elements and if relevant for applications in contact with soil and ground water. This document does not cover: — retaining walls intended to retain tanks or reservoirs of liquids; — precast diaphragm walls (concrete sheet piling); — ribbed floor elements; — lintels.

This document covers, regardless of if manufactured in factories or in temporary plants on site under the same conditions, precast concrete elements made of lightweight concrete with an open structure, and with a dry density between 400 and 2000 kg/m3 intended for: — solid, hollow core and multilayer load-bearing wall elements; — solid, hollow core and multilayer non-load-bearing wall elements; — retaining wall elements, excluding retaining walls intended to retain tanks or reservoirs of liquids and diaphragm walls (concrete sheet piling); — solid, hollow core and multilayer roof elements, excluding ribbed floor elements and floor slabs elements; — solid, hollow core and multilayer floor elements excluding floor elements with the intended use to carry traffic loads; — solid and hollow core beams; — solid piers; — cladding elements; — box culverts; — components for noise barriers. NOTE In addition to their loadbearing and encasing function, elements can also be used to provide fire resistance, sound insulation and thermal insulation. Recycled lightweight concrete with an open structure (other than closed-loop recycling during production) is covered by this document. Reused precast concrete elements made of lightweight concrete with an open structure are covered by this document.

This standard lists a series of environmental, social and economical procedures and documentations for the implementation of ISO 17889 part 1 and 2 and the verification of the rating on a product. The standard intends to be a guideline for organizations which want to implement ISO 17899 part 1 or 2 on a product / line of products, and for auditors. This document includes relevant documentation needed for the verification: each of them will be described and linked to the requirements in ISO 17889 part 1 and part 2, mandatory or voluntary, which are covered. The standard will also include requirements for the auditors needed to meet in order to verify and certify ISO 17889 part 1 and part 2.

This document covers the determination of the characteristic load resistance Fp and the characteristic plate stiffness kp of plate anchors. 

This document specifies the method for the determination of the water-soluble chromium (VI) content of cement. A reference method is described consisting of two stages, an extraction procedure and an analysis of the filtered extract. Guidance on other extraction procedures, suitable for screening tests, for factory production control or other purposes, is given but in case of dispute or failure to comply with a regulatory limit only the reference method is used. The reference method has alternatives whereby the filtered extract can be subjected to an oxidation step or not. The criteria by which the appropriate procedure is selected are set down. Other instrumental procedures can be used for the analysis of the filtered extract provided they are calibrated against the analysis of the filtered extract using the reference procedure. In the case of a dispute, only the reference method is used. This document specifies, for the determination of water-soluble chromium (VI) in the filtered extract, the reference methods (colorimetric determination by diphenylcarbazide in acidic conditions) and another method for the determination of total water-soluble chromium (by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy, ICP-OES). The ICP-OES determines the total chromium content independently of the chemical species, i.e. whether it is present as chromium (III) or chromium (VI), for example. Experience has demonstrated that soluble chromium (VI) is predominantly present during the processing phase, such that, in most cases, the determination of total water-soluble chromium effectively reflects the chromium (VI) content. The water-soluble chromium (VI) content of cement can therefore be assessed conservatively using the method based on ICP-OES described in this document. In the case of a dispute, only the reference methods are used. This document specifies a method that applies to cements. NOTE 1 Annex A provides guidance on the possible application of this document to the determination of the water-soluble chromium (VI) content of cement-containing preparations. NOTE 2 Annexes B and C provide information on other test procedures based on paste extraction and thus depart from the performance of cement in its normal conditions of use. They can be carried out with or without the oxidation process. It is important that users are aware that results using these methods might be significantly different to those obtained by the reference method. In the case of dispute or failure to comply with the regulatory limit, only the reference method is used. NOTE 3 Annex D provides guidance on a method for determination of the excess reducing agent content of cement as used in the factory internal control system of some countries. It is important that manufacturers using such an internal control method ensure themselves of the relevance of results in comparison with testing by the reference method.

This document specifies the scheme for the assessment of conformity with the regulatory limit for water-soluble hexavalent chromium. This document provides technical rules for factory production control, including autocontrol testing of samples, and for assessment of factory production control. It also provides rules for actions to be followed in the event of non-compliance with the procedure set in place, or that of exceeding the limit of water-soluble hexavalent chromium, hereafter to be referred to as “water-soluble chromium (VI)”. This document applies to all cements within the meaning of the term “cement”.