How to manage temporary works in construction - Book - Page 131
5.5 Taking temporary works out of use
Dismantling temporary works
5.5.6
BS 5975-1:2024 clause 13.3 states that the temporary works implementation plan should
identify where hold points are required and circumstances when a temporary works permit
should be issued to allow progress to the next stage and who should issue it. BS 5975-1:2024
clause 3.1.18 gives a definition of a hold point. The following table gives examples of hold points
in the construction process. This is for illustration only.
Actions and or
Structure
testing that may be
required
Formwork used to
Pressure tests
support the wet weight
Cube crush
of concrete in steel
tests
Technical
Who is likely to be
Standards
involved
BS
This is likely to be
1881
undertaken by the
BS EN
resident site
12390
engineer who had
reinforced columns or
Slump tests
walls
Other testing
some responsibility
Falsework used to
Heat tests
over the installation
support the wet weight
Deflection
of the permanent
tests
works
of concrete in steel
reinforced floors
A falsework or
shuttering supervisor
is likely to be
responsible for the
dismantling of the
falsework
Falsework/shuttering
is likely to be re-used
to complete other
stages of the works
Back propping used to
Checking prior
This is likely to be
prevent overloading to
to dismantling
undertaken by the resident
completed floor slabs
to avoid
site engineer who will also
damage or
have some responsibility
overloading
over the installation of the
permanent works
Removal of trench
Reinstatement,
The civil engineering
lining systems used to
backfilling
contractor is likely to carry
support the sides of an
and/or
out reinstatement works
excavation
compaction of
with an independent tester
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