earth.pptx
- 1. The following works shall not be measured separately • Setting out works, profiles, etc; • Site clearance, such as cleaning grass and vegetation; • Unauthorized bettering or benching of excavation; • Forming ( or leaving ) ‘dead men’ or ‘tell-tales’in borrow pits and their removal after measurements; • Forming ( or leaving ) steps in sides of deep • excavation and their removal after measurements; • Excavation for insertion of planking and strutting; • Unless otherwise specified, removing slips or falls in excavations; • Bailing out or pumping of water in excavation from rains;
- 2. • Bailing out or pumping of water in excavation from sub-soil water when measured under 2.5(a) of sub section; and • Slinging or supporting pipes, electric cables, etc, met during excavation.
- 3. • All excavation shall be measured in successive stages of 1.5 m stating the commencing level. This shall not apply to cases where no lift is involved as in hillside cutting. • All excavation shall generally be described as ‘excavate and get out’. Getting out shall include throwing the excavated earth at least one metre or l/3 depth of excavation whichever is more clear of the edge of excavation