Reduce the Risk Of Engineering Failure
Ensure AS3700 & NCC-2022 Compliance
Reduce the Risk Of Engineering Failure
Ensure Design & Building Act 2020 Compliance
Testimonials
To build a block wall without BlockAid now would be ridiculous, in fact, it would border on structural negligence.
BlockAid ensured the wall was built to the specification and that a steel fixer was no longer required. BlockAid eliminated vertical lapped joints to save 35% of vertical steel and BlockAid eliminated lifting blocks over vertical steel bars.
The research revealed that the use of BlockAid resulted in a complete wall structure that met the requirements of AS3700-2001 Masonry Structures in terms of achieving correct reinforcement positioning, consistently achieving greater accuracy than conventional best practice. Moreover, it achieved a construction speed comparable with commonly encountered, low quality practices, and resulted in construction times 20% faster than best practice, wire tied techniques.
I am convinced that this is the best procedure available to guarantee the perfect location of all reinforcement.
From our experience, BlockAid Rebar Positioners are the only chair that can guarantee that the wall will meet its design potential.Paul Fitzgerald from Hamstead Homes raves about BlockAid Rebar Positioners – he loves them!
BlockAid locating devices accurately locate the horizontal reinforcement as the blocks are laid and provide an aperture for the vertical reinforcement to be inserted into the wall, resulting in an accurate lattice of reinforcement throughout the entire wall, to achieve compliance to AS3700.
Australian Governments, Engineers and Certifiers have a vested interest to specify the mandatory use of “bar chairs for blockwork” or “locating devices” to improve work practice and achieve compliance for block walls, thereby ensuring block wall assets are insurable.
* The Marine Environment (ISO Category 3) extends inland along the Queensland and NSW coast beyond the general distance of 10 kilometres from the surf coast to about 50 kilometres in exceptional circumstances, which includes the Gold Coast, Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong, thereby increasing the minimum cover to 15mm in these extended areas.