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Service Scope and Responsibility

Plain statements of what BICP delivers, what remains with the local design team, and the conditions behind every technical judgement on this site.

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Technical judgements depend on project conditions

The floor and structural approaches described on this site are technical directions. The conclusion for a specific project is reached once the following conditions are available.

  • Structural system: column grid, spans, loads, clear height, building services, construction sequence and local approval requirements.
  • Floor system: geotechnical data, temperature regime, loads, subbase condition, operating and maintenance practice, and acceptance criteria.
  • Existing floor repair: cause of damage, test results, zoning of the defects and the shutdown window available.
  • The application pages describe common correspondences; projects within the same facility type may still follow different technical routes.

Conditions attached to quantified statements

Any percentage, service life or dimension shown on this site is a project-level estimate or target for a stated set of conditions, and is shown with its source and qualifier.

  • Cost, service life, savings and joint-reduction figures are confirmed against project conditions and the contract.
  • Design life and warranty periods are targets; the actual scope is set by the contract and the zoning of the floor.
  • Qualitative statements such as "fewer joints" or "longer life" take their actual magnitude from project conditions.
  • Code numbers and titles follow the official publication; BICP participates in codes as a contributing author.

Who is responsible for what

An industrial building is delivered by several professional parties. The following describes the part BICP carries and the division with adjacent disciplines.

  • Formal design, statutory approval and review by the responsible parties are completed by those parties.
  • Equipment foundations, vibration isolation, anti-static and functional surface layers are handled by the corresponding specialist trades.
  • Refrigeration and thermal insulation belong to the building-services and envelope disciplines; BICP contributes as a cold-store systems specialist and refrigeration works are carried out by the relevant specialist.
  • The floor system and the main structure are designed, accepted and accounted for separately.

International engineering responsibility

BICP provides engineering analysis, technical consulting and concept / specialist design support. Where local regulations require a registered, licensed or chartered engineer (or engineer of record) to sign, seal or take statutory responsibility for the design, final project design and statutory approval remain subject to review and acceptance by that locally licensed engineer or engineer of record. BICP's deliverables are technical inputs to that process.

  • BICP deliverables are analysis reports, design concepts, specification inputs and technical recommendations.
  • The local design team and the engineer of record integrate those inputs into the project design and carry the statutory design responsibility where local law requires it.
  • Where a project needs signed and sealed structural documents, BICP works alongside the locally licensed engineer; it does not replace that role.
  • Site supervision, testing, inspection and acceptance follow the procedures of the project and its jurisdiction.

Scope of SHENTE material supply

SHENTE is a supplier of post-tensioning and related engineering materials, including armoured joint systems.

  • The scope of service is material supply together with the quality records for the supplied products.
  • Commitments are limited to material quality, specification limits, batch records, delivery response, inspection records and the scope agreed in the contract.
  • Technical fit recommendations are material selection advice; engineering design opinions are issued by the design team, the contractor or the engineering consultant.
  • Product ranges shown as planned or under verification enter the regular catalogue only after sample verification and batch stability are confirmed.

How projects and data are referenced

Project references on this site illustrate company and brand experience.

  • The delivered outcome of a specific project is determined by that project's own conditions.
  • Test and measurement data, and any statement made in the name or image of an owner, are used with the owner's written consent.
  • Statements about in-service performance keep their source note, such as company follow-up visits and owner feedback.

The above is a general statement. The service content, deliverables, timing and scope of responsibility for a specific project are defined by the contract signed by both parties.

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