Specifications - Railing Design - American > Part I General

SECTION 05720 RAILING AND HANDRAILS

1.01 Work Included
Furnish and install pre-engineered welded aluminum railings and components.

1.02 Related Work
Section 03000 - Concrete
Section 04200 - Unit Masonry Systems
Section 06100 - Rough Carpentry
Section 08800 - Glazing: Glass

1.03 Reference Standards

Aluminium Associations (AA)

• ASD-1 Aluminum Standards and Data
• B.O.C.A. National Building Code
• American Welding Society -ASD-1 "Aluminum Standards and Data"
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI) AZ1.1 "Safety Requirements for Floor and Wall Openings, Railings and Toe Boards"
• AAMA 2603 98 "Voluntary Specifications Performance Requirements and Test Procedures for Pigmented Organic Coatings on Aluminum Extrusions and Panels."
• American Society for Testing and Materials
  • E985 - "Specifications for Permanent Metal Railing Systems and Railings for Buildings"
  • E935 - "Standard test methods for performance of Permanent Metal Railing Systems and Rails for Buildings"
  • E894 - "Standard test methods for Anchorage or Permanent Metal Railing Systems and Rails for Buildings"

1.04 System Performance Requirements

Structural Performance of Railing Systems:

• Engineer, fabricate, and install railing system to withstand the following structural loads without exceeding the allowable design working stress of the materials for railing system, anchors and connections.

1.05 Submittals

• Shop drawings showing Welding, Fabrication, Installation or railing system including all plans, sections, detail of connections and components.
• Where installed products are indicated to comply with certain design loadings, include structural computations, material properties and other information needed for structural analysis review by the design architect and/or engineer of record.
• Submit 6 prints of all shop drawings, signed and stamped from a professional structural engineer registered in proper jurisdiction.

1.06 Quality Assurance

• Single Source Responsibility: Obtain railing systems from a single fabricator/manufacturer.
• Engineering Responsibility: Engineer railing systems by the fabricator/manufacturer unless sizes and configurations are specifically called out on architect/engineer.

1.07 Storage

• Store railing systems in clean, dry location, away from uncured concrete and masonry, protected against damage.

1.08 Project Conditions

• Field Measurements: Where railings are indicated to fit to other construction, check accurate dimensions of other construction by accurate field measurements before fabrication. coordinate fabrication schedule with construction progress to avoid delay of work.