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The document discusses the importance and preparation of a bar bending schedule (BBS). A BBS is a tabular list that provides details of reinforcement bars including their shape, length, total length, and weight. It is important because it helps laborers correctly cut and bend bars, reduces waste, and improves quality control. Key advantages are faster construction, reduced costs, and minimized theft. The document outlines essential rules for preparing a BBS and how to calculate lengths for different bar shapes, including additional length needed for bent bars. Percentages of reinforcement are provided for different structural elements.

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Bar Bending Schedule - Importance

The document discusses the importance and preparation of a bar bending schedule (BBS). A BBS is a tabular list that provides details of reinforcement bars including their shape, length, total length, and weight. It is important because it helps laborers correctly cut and bend bars, reduces waste, and improves quality control. Key advantages are faster construction, reduced costs, and minimized theft. The document outlines essential rules for preparing a BBS and how to calculate lengths for different bar shapes, including additional length needed for bent bars. Percentages of reinforcement are provided for different structural elements.

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Bar Bending Schedule – Importance, advantages, Preparation

by Civil Lead

Table of Contents
What is Bar Bending Schedule (BBS)?
Importance of Bar Bending Schedule
Advantages of Bar Bending schedule
Uses of BBS
Essential Rules for Preparing Bar Bending Schedule
How to prepare a bar bending schedule?
For 45°cranked or bent up bar
For 30°cranked or bent up bar
Bend Length For Stirrups
Overlap or Lap Length at joint
Length of Hook and Total Length of Bar for different shape
Length of Bent -up bar for 30°, 45°, and 60°
PERCENTAGE OF REINFORCEMENT ACCORDING TO
CONCRETE VOLUME:
What is Bar Bending Schedule (BBS)?

Bar bending schedule is a list of reinforcement bars in a tabular form giving the
particulars of bars, the shape of bending with sketches, length of each, total
length and total weight. 
Usually, for each type of RCC work, a schedule of bars is usually prepared. With
the help of BBS, the requirements of different sizes and lengths of bars may be
known and may be arranged and bent-up during the time of construction. It gives
information about

• Particular of size and type of bars


• The shape of bending with a sketch if any
• Number of sets or numbers of bars of each set
• Length of each and total length in running meter
• Weight per unit length and total weight.

Importance of Bar Bending Schedule


As we know the cutting and bending of steel bar is done by labour at the site.
The labour working on site are not so technically sound so it is difficult to explain
them with the help of drawing. 

There are chances of wrong cutting and bending of steel. With the help of BBS, it
is very easy to explain to them because in BBS shape and cutting length of bars
is given. 

A supervisor can easily guide the labours and required work can be done by
them as per structural design requirement and specification.
Also, Read – What is Concrete Cover? Clear Cover, Nominal Cover,
Effective Cover.

Advantages of Bar Bending schedule


1 There is faster execution of work at the site with the help of BBS, which
reduces construction cost and time.
2 BBS reduces reinforcement wastages in cutting.
3 BBS helps in improving quality control at the site.
4 It helps in stock management at the site.
5 It helps in auditing of reinforcement and provides a check on theft.
6 It helps in the fast preparation of bills of construction works.
7 It helps in the estimation of steel quantity.

Uses of BBS
• It helps to determine the total quantity of steel needed for the construction of a
structure. Also, It helps to quote the cost acquired by steel for tender.
• BBS helps to determine the cutting length, and bending length of
reinforcement, which helps to improve construction quality and minimize
steel wastage makes construction economical.
• BBS allow cutting and bending of reinforcement at the factory and transported
to the site. It allows for faster construction and reduces construction cost.
• For site engineers, It becomes clear to verify the cutting length and bending
length of the reinforcement before placing the concrete.
Also, Read – What is Development Length? – Complete Guide
A
Essential Rules for Preparing Bar Bending Schedule
• The bars used in the building structure should be grouped for each structural
unit and listed separately for each floor.
• Bars should be listed in numerical order.
• For identifying the bar in the bundle of bars, each bar is labelled uniquely with
reference specifications (Length of the bar, size of the bar, the shape of
the bar)
• The type and shape of the bar should be following B8666.
• The label of bar mark references attached to a bundle of bars must relate
uniquely to an appropriate set or group of bars of defined shape, size,
length and type used on the work.
• The cutting length and bending length calculations should be done separately
and not included in the detailed list. 
How to prepare a bar bending schedule?
BBS should contain the following Details
1 Description of bar
2 Shape and bending dimension
3 Numbers of bar same types
4 Length of bar
5 The total length of the bar
6 Diameter of bar
7 Weight  
8 Total weight
Most of the details discussed above are given in the drawing. We have to
calculate the cutting and bending length and total weight which we can calculate
as follows:
The length of one hook may be taken as 9D and the total length of the straight
bar hooked at both ends may be taken as L + 18D

Also, Read – Difference Between Plinth Level, Sill level and lintel level
For 45°cranked or bent up bar
The additional length for one bent up is = difference in length of hypotenuse and
base
 =   d/sin45°- d
=   d(1/0.707 – 1)
=   d(1.42 – 1)
 =  0.42d = 0.45d ( approx)
For two bent ups additional length is equal to 2 × 0.45d = 0.9d where d is the
vertical distance between the centre of the upper and lower arms of the bent up
bars, which is equal to a total depth of beam or slab minus bottom and top cover.

Also, Read – What is Plinth Beam? Plinth Protection, Difference Between


Plinth Beam and Tie Beam.

For 30°cranked or bent up bar


Inclined length of crank = d/sin30° = 2d
The horizontal length of crank =  d/tan30 = 1.73d
The extra length required for one crank = 2d-1.73d = 0.27d = 0.3d(say)
For a bar cranked at both ends at 30 the additional length is equal to 2 × 0.3d
= 0.6d
Bend Length For Stirrups
For making stirrups, we have to bend the bar at different angels such as 45°, 90 °
and 135°. Following standards are used to calculate the bend length of stirrups at
corners.

1 45° Bend length = 1d


2 90° Bend length = 2d
3 135° Bend length = 3d
Where d = Diameter of stirrup bar
Also, Read – How to Calculate Cutting Length of Stirrups for Beam and
Column?
Overlap or Lap Length at joint
The regular length of the bar is 12m. Assuming the column’s height is 20 m, and
for serving this requirement, two bars of length 12m are overlapped (joined) with
lap length.
Length of Hook and Total Length of Bar for different shape
Length of Bent -up bar for 30°, 45°, and 60°

PERCENTAGE OF REINFORCEMENT ACCORDING TO CONCRETE


VOLUME:
1. Lintel, Slab                              –      0.7 to 1%
2. Beams                                      –      1.0  to  2.0%
3. Columns                                  –      1.0  to 5%
4.  Foundation raft, footing etc.   –      0.5 to 8%
These are the complete information about bar bending schedule. If you found
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Thanks!

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