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TLE –IA-CARPENTRY
Quarter 4 – Module 4
Setting and Fixing Formworks
Components and Panels
TLE – IA- Carpentry NC II - Grade 10
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Quarter 4 – Module 4: Setting and Fixing Formworks Components and Panels
First Edition, 2021

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 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written for the learners to help them identify
and classify different types of formwork and its materials. After going through this
module, the learner is expected to:
1. Identify the different major objectives in determining the design of
formworks
2. Classify the different formwork types,
3. Lay out formwork component
(TLE_IACP9-12IF-Ila-IVj-3)

What I Know

Directions: Read the following test items below. Encircle the letter of the correct
answer. Write your answer on your activity notebook.
1. What are the materials generally used in formwork?
A. steel, plastics and timber C. wood, timber and steel
B. timber and steel D. wood, steel and iron
2. In designing and building formwork, what are the four major objectives that
must be considered?
A. blue print, cost of materials and characteristics of construction worker
B. cost of Materials, properties and type of material
C. economy, quality, safety, and speed & time
D. material used, plan and behavior of engineer
3. It is a vertical or inclined support member designed to carry the weight of the
formwork, concrete and construction leads above.
A. brace C. reshores
B. lace D. shores
4. In building form work it is one of the major factors to be considered that
includes cost of materials, cost of labor in making, erecting and removing the
forms and the cost of equipment?
A. economy C. safety
B. quality D. speed and time
5. It is used to temporarily support horizontal concrete work such as concrete
beams and slabs.
A. formwork for concrete slabs
B. formwork for concrete beams
C. formwork horizontal systems
D. formwork for vertical systems

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 Setting and Fixing
Lesson
Formworks
1 Components and Panels
This module will help you to know about the knowledge, skills and lay out
formworks components/form panel In this module, you will also know major objectives
in designing and building formworks.

What’s In

Directions: Draw a happy face in your activity notebook if the statement is correct
and unhappy face if it is not.

1. Materials generally used in formwork are timber, steel and plastics with
different types and classifications.

2. Design of the proposed formwork for a given project is not important for the
job planner to determine the materials and methods.

3. Formwork should only be designed by a professional engineer.

4. Form braces are frequently made of wood or steel.

5. The safety of workers is the responsibility of owners, designers, and

contractors.

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 What’s New
Directions: Study the illustration below and enumerate three formwork materials and
three formwork accessories used. Write your answer in your activity notebook.

What Is It

Setting and Fixing Formworks

Components and Panels

Formwork system is an integral part of the process in designing and constructing

concrete structures. In designing and building formwork, four major objectives must
be considered:

1. Economy:
The main materials of the reinforced concrete work are concrete, reinforcement
and formwork, so the total cost can be approximately distributed among the three
items.

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2. Quality
Forms must be designed and built with sufficient stiffness and accuracy
so the size, shape, position, and finish of the cast concrete are attained within the
required tolerances.

3. Safety
Formwork operations are risky, and workers are typically exposed to unsafe
working conditions. Partial or total failure of concrete formwork is a major contributor
to deaths, injuries, and property damages within the construction industry.

4. Speed and Time

Speed of construction is defined as the rate in which concrete building is raised
and can be expressed in terms of number of floors erected per week or months. Speed
of construction can be also measured in terms of inches or millimeters of concrete
poured per hour. Formwork operations can control the pace of construction projects.

Formwork Types

A. Formwork Horizontal Systems:

Horizontal formwork systems are used to temporarily support horizontal
concrete work such as concrete beams and slabs.
Formwork systems for horizontal concrete work can be also classified into two
main categories: hand-set systems and crane-set systems. Conventional wood
systems and conventional metal systems are classified as hand-set systems. In
hand-set systems, different formwork elements can be handled by one or two
laborers.

1. Formwork for Concrete Slabs

Conventional wood systems for horizontal concrete work are made of
plywood or lumber sheathing for decking.

2. Formwork for Concrete Beams

Formwork for beams consists of a bottom and two sides (open through
section) in addition to their supporting elements. The bottom is typically
made of ply wood or lumber sheathing.

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B. Formwork Vertical Systems:
Vertical formwork systems are those used to form the vertical supporting
elements of the structure such as columns and walls. Thus, wall form design often
involves closely spaced and well-supported members. As mentioned, the contact
surface of the wall form is referred to as sheathing.

1. Formwork for Column Systems

Column-form materials tend to vary with the column shape. Wood or
steel is often used with square or rectangular columns. Round column
forms, more typically pre-manufactured in a range of standard
diameters, are available in steel, paperboard, and fiber-reinforced
plastic. Steel column forms have built-in bracing for short heights so the
only external bracing required serves to keep the column plumb and for
taller columns.

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2. Formwork for Wall System
Wall forms principally resist the lateral pressures generated by fresh
concrete as a liquid or semi-liquid material. The pressures can be quite
large; certainly many times the magnitude of live loads on permanent
floors. Thus, wall form design often involves closely spaced and well-
supported members. As mentioned, the contact surface of the wall form
is referred to as sheathing. Studs are vertical supporting members to
which sheathing is attached. Wales are long horizontal members (usually
double) used to support the studs. The studs and wales are often wood,
steel, or aluminum beam-like elements.

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C. Falsework Systems:
1. Shoring
Shores are vertical or inclined support members designed to carry the
weight of the formwork, concrete, and construction loads above. Shoring
systems may be made of wood or metal posts.

Reshores are shores placed snugly under a concrete floor so future loads
imposed from construction at the highest level can be shared over sufficient
floors to carry the dead and live loads safely.
Preshores are added shores placed snugly under selected panels of a
deck forming system before any primary (original) shores are removed.
Scaffolding system is an elevated platform to support workmen, tools,
and materials. In concrete work, heavy-duty scaffolding is often adapted to
double as shoring.

2. Bracing and Lacing

A brace is any structural member used to support another, always
designed for compression loads and sometimes for tension under special load
conditions.
Horizontal lacing can be considered in design to hold in place and
increase the buckling strength of individual shores and reshores or backshores.

D. Formwork materials

The selection of materials suitable for formwork should be based on the

price, safety during construction, and the quality required in the finished
product.
1. Timber
Timber is widely used for many construction applications including concrete
formwork. Timber is harvested from trees and is classified as hardwood and softwood.
Hardwood comes from trees that have broad leaves such as oaks, maples, and
basswood. Softwood comes from trees that have needlelike leaves such as pines,
cedars, and firs. Softwoods are most commonly used in construction of formwork.

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2. Metals
The initial cost of metal formwork is more than timber formwork but the
number of uses of metal formwork is higher than that of timber. In long run metal
formwork can be economical.
1. Steel
The major advantages of steel sections in formwork are the ability of
steel to form longer spans and its indefinite potential for reuse when handled
with reasonable care. Steel sections are used in the fabrication of different
formwork components, namely:

(1) Steel panel forms;

(2) Horizontal and vertical shores;
(3) Steel pan and dome components used for joist and waffle slabs;
(4) Steel pipes for formwork bracing.

2. Aluminum
Aluminum stems have lighted weight which reduces handling
costs and offsets its higher initial material cost.

3. Glass-reinforced Plastic
Forms fabricated from glass-reinforced plastic have a good strength, light
weight, and high number of uses. Glass-reinforced plastic also produces high
quality concrete finishes.

E. Accessories:

1. Form Ties are tensile unit connecting opposite sides of the form and providing a
link for equilibrium or used to hold concrete forms against the active pressure of
freshly placed plastic concrete.

2. Form Anchors are devices used to secure formwork to previously placed concrete
of adequate strength.
3. Form Hangers are devices used to suspend formwork loads from structural steel,
precast concrete, or other members.

4. Side Form Spacers is a device that maintains the desired distance between a
vertical form and reinforcing bars.

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 What’s More

A. Directions: Identify the formwork types which describe by the following sentences.
Write FHS if it is referring to Formwork Horizontal System, FVS if it is Formwork
Vertical Systems, FS if it is Falsework System, FM for Formwork Materials and A for
Accessories. Write your answer in your activity notebook

_________ 1. Formwork for wall system

_________ 2. Side form spacers
_________ 3. Formwork for concrete slabs
_________ 4. Formwork for column systems
_________ 5. Scaffolding system
B. Directions: Match Column A and Column B. Write the letter of the correct answer
in your activity notebook.
Column A Column B
1. Correctly designed formwork will ensure that the A. Economy
concrete maintains the desired size and shape.

2. Design of the proposed formwork for a given project B. Quality

usually enable the job planner what materials and
methods will be most economical.
C. Quantity

3. Every precaution should be taken to ensure a safe D. Safety

working environment.
4. Faster formwork cycle from erection to stripping E. Speed and Time
would allow for faster removal of shoring and
reshoring.
5. It is the number of project that the engineer able to F. Attitude
finished in a certain time

C. Directions: Draw if the material belongs to falsework system and draw

if the material belongs to accessories.
___________ 1. form hangers
___________ 2. bracing and lacing
___________ 3. shores, reshores, backshores, preshores

___________ 4. side spacers

___________ 5. scaffolding

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 What I Have Learned
Directions: Fill in the blank with the missing word/s to complete the statements that
summarize our topic. Write your answer on your activity notebook.

You learned that in designing and building formwork, the four major objectives
that needs to be considered are (1)______________________, (2)_________________,
(3)__________________, and (4)_______________________.

The formwork systems deals with five formwork types namely:

(1)_______________, (2)____________________, (3)____________________,
(4)___________________________ and (5)______________________ in order to set, and fix
concrete structures.

What I Can Do

Directions: Draw a formwork horizontal system consisting of a bottom and two sides
with different types of formwork materials

Rubrics
Accuracy – 2 pts.
Present Materials – 3 pts.
Overall Appearance – 5 pts.

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 Assessment

A. Directions: Write the letter of the correct answer in your activity notebook.

1. What do you call a material serving as contact face of forms and used in vertical
and horizontal systems?
A. beams C. form ties
B. clip D. sheathing

2. What type of formwork material that is harvested from trees and is classified as
hardwood and softwood?
A. beam C. steel
B. metal D. timber

3. Which type of formwork material that is very flexible and can form complex or
nonstandard shapes with little capital investment?
A. glass-reinforced plastic C. steels
B. metals D. timber

4. Which shores has an elevated platform that support workmen, tools and materials?
A. backshores C. reshores
B. preshores D. scaffolding

5. Column-form materials tend to vary with the column shape. What material that
can often used as square or rectangular columns?
A. glass-reinforced plastics C. timber
B. metals D. wood or steel

6. What do you call a device that maintains the desired distance between a vertical
form and reinforcing bars?
A. beam C. sheathing
B. form tie D. side form spacer

7. Which formwork type is referring to wall and column?

A. Falsework System
B. Formwork Horizontal System
C. Formwork Materials
D. Formwork Vertical System

8. Steel sections are used in the fabrication of different formwork components. Which
material is not included in the components?
A. horizontal and vertical shores
B. metals
C. steel panel forms
D. steel pan for formwork bracing

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9. What do you call the special type of timber?
A. backshores C. scaffolding
B. plywood D. reshores

10. What do you call the type of shores that placed snugly under a concrete floor so
future loads imposed from construction at the highest level?
A. backshores C. reshores
B. preshores D. shores

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What I Know What’s In What’s More
1. A A. 1. FVS B. 1. B
1.
2. C 2. A 2. A
3. D 2. 3. FHS 3. D
4. A 4. FVS 4. E
5. C 3. 5. FS
6. FS C
4.
7. A 1.
5.
8. FM 2.
What’s New 9. FM 3.
Materials used- timber, 10. FS 4.
steel, steel pipes 5.
Accessories – Form Ties,
form anchors, side form
spacers
What I Have Learned Assessment
(In any order) 1. D
Economy, Quality, Safety and Speed &
Time
2. D
Formwork Horizontal System
Formwork Vertical System 3. A
Falsework System
Formwork Materials 4. D
Accessories
5. D
What I can do
Answers may vary 1. D
2. D
3. B
4. B
5. C
Answer Key
References
Competency Based Learning Modules in Carpentry NC II Grade 9-12. Philippines:
Department of Education, n.d.

Curriculum Guide. Carpentry 9-12. Philippines: Department of Education, n.d.

Formwork Requirements, Types Materials & Accessories

K to 12 Basic Education. Technology and Livelihood Education Home Economics, Hair

Dressing Grade 9-12. Philippines: Department of Education, n.d.

Sadanandam, Jupunuan Different, Materials use for Formworks 2017– Advantages

and Advantages https:// theconstructor.org/building/materials-formwork-
advantages-disadvantages/6188/

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