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ACI Placement Tolerance for Welded Wire Reinforcement
Date: October 2024
Engineers and contractors are imperfect beings. The holistic process of carrying out a design and then constructing it to a satisfactory level of conformance is wrought with technical, logistical, and spatial complications and challenges.
If the built environment is being carried out by imperfect minds and hands, then the resulting construction product itself is bound to be imperfect as well. The level of acceptable imperfection must be managed and restricted, however, otherwise the absence of consistent control will yield grossly non-conforming construction that – if even buildable in the first place – would have a higher likelihood of poor and/or unpredictable performance.
In short: building stuff can be difficult. The method by which we establish the ground rules for “acceptable imperfection” is in the definition of tolerances.
