Matara- Kataragama Railway Extension Project (Phase 1) Sri

Lanka Matara-Beliatta Sector

Matara-Kataragama Railway Extension Project

Matara-Beliatta Sector (Phase 1)
(DK0+44 ~ DK26+461)

Method statement for Construction of Concrete Gravity Retaining Walls

MS- 06B
Rev. A

Contractor : China National Machinery Imp. & Exp. Corp.

No

REV.A

Date
2014.3.4

Prepared

LiBO

Checked

Zhong Xiang

Approved

He peizhi

Remark

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CONTENT
1.0 Purpose of Method Statement
2.0 Relevant documents and Standards
3.0 Responsibilities for activity Describe within this Method Statement
4.0 Detailed method of carrying out method statement activity
5.0 QA & QC measures
6.0 HSE Measures
Appendix 1 .RETAINING WALL FORMWORK
Appendix.2. Relevant Chinese material specification

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Method statement for Construction of Concrete Gravity Retaining Walls

1.0 Purpose of Method Statement
This method statement provides the details of the materials; the equipment, the procedure and
relevant documents related to the construction of concrete gravity retaining wall from DK 0+044 ~
DK 26+461
2.0 Relevant documents and Standards
2.1 Typical drawings SLR-CMC-D-EAW-SD-07
2.2 Working drawings for Gravity Retaining wall
3.0 Responsibilities for activity Describe within this Method Statement
Construction manager, section manager, section engineer, and other relevant personnel within whose
scope of works shall be responsible for referred construction activities in to the construction of
gravity retaining wall from DK 0+044 ~ DK 26+461 shall carry out according to the method
stipulated in this statement unless otherwise changed by the Engineer.
4.0 Detailed method of carrying out method statement activity
4.1 General construction requirements
Embedded depth for gravity retaining wall in embankment fill slope is not less than 1.0m

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Notes
b is the width, H denotes the height, 1:n denotes the slope gradient. The values of b, H and n are
indicated in the drawings of different construction sites.
If the height of the retaining wall is higher than 3.0m, protective railing will be provided.

The embedded depth of retaining wall in cutting areas will be not less than 1.2m, below the shoulder
or the berm of side the ditch and not less than 0.2m below base of the side ditch.

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If the retaining wall is in the inclined ground the embedded depth is not less than 1.0m for soil and
weak rock, and the horizontal distance between toe to the embedded ground surface shall be 1.5m to
2.5m. For the hard rock embedment depth will be not less than 1m, the horizontal distance between
toe to the embedded ground surface shall be 0.6m 1.5m. If the gradient of the slope is greater than
5%, the base of the retaining wall will be stepped.
If the wall height is greater than 6m, C20 rubble concrete will be used for the construction. If the
wall height is less than 6m, M10 Cement mortar will be used.
0.1m dia. PVC pipe drain holes will be provided in wall arrange in 2m X 2m grid. The inner end of
PVC pipe is wrapped with geotextile. The first raw of drain holes will be 0.3m higher than ground or
shoulder level. 0.3m thick, filter gravel/sand layer will be constructed between embankment or slope
surface and inner surface of gravity retaining wall. 0.5m thick compacted impermeable clay layer
will be provided in at each ends of the filter layer, 0.5m below from the original ground level at the
bottom and 0.5m from top of the retaining wall.
At the sites where ground water development is high, the filter layer thickness will be increased to
0.5m. At the slopes where it is very hard to excavate (eg: hard weathered rock) or coarse-grained
sandy back fills or slopes the filter later will be omitted.
4.2 Materials
4.2.1 C 20 Rubble concrete
4.2.2 Ladder Rebar (see attached drawing)
4.2.3 100mm dia. gauge 600 or above PVC pipe for drain holes
4.2.4 Gravel and sand filter materials
4.3 Preparation
After the setting out for foundation, the excavation will be carried out until design level reached. The
dynamic cone penetration test, at least 1 per every 30m segment will be carried out to assess the
bearing capacity of in-situ soil. If the bearing capacity is not sufficient, additional excavation will be
carried out to sound bearing strata. The additional excavation depth will be back filled with
compacted rubble stone.
After excavation, the foundation pit will be continuously de water, so the bearing stratum will not
allow getting soaked.
The base trench will be excavated section by section or at different locations. Continuous excavation
of a long section that will influence the stability of Embankment slope is strictly forbidden. The
maximum length of wall section is 30m.

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4.4 Wall construction

A). Form work
The formwork will be timber, steel or any other material approved by the Engineer. Timber forms
will be of approved quality, well seasoned and of uniform thickness, sound, free from warps, loose
knots, twists, wavy edges, saps and shakes or other defects affecting the strength of the form work
and appearance of the finished surface of the retaining wall. Metal sheets use for formwork will be
kept free from rust and dents with no surface blemishes that will impair the concrete surface finish.
The supports and scaffoldings will be of metal, sawn timber, round timber or of any other material
approved by the Engineer.
The temporary staging will be provided to enable the constructional operations to be performed in
the required sequence and in a safe manner. The false work will be properly constructed to provide
the necessary rigidity and to carry out loads, which will be required to support. Where necessary it
will include safe walkways to enable Engineer to inspect the form work, reinforcement and
concreting.
All formwork will be constructed that there will be no loss of materials from the fresh concrete.
Forms will be mortar tight, will be made sufficiently rigid by the use of ties and bracing to prevent
any displacement or sagging, and will be capable of withstanding all incidentals loading during
concreting.
Where internal ties, they will be extracted without damage to the concrete to a depth of at least
25mm from the finished concrete surface and the resulting holes filled with mortar. No permanently
embedded nuts will have less than 25mm concrete cover from finished concrete surface.
Immediately before concreting, the forms will be thoroughly cleaned either by water jetting or by
any other suitable method, temporary openings being provided for the purpose. Inside surfaces will,
if necessary coated with an approved material such as mould oil to prevent adhesion of the concrete.
This material will not be allowed to come in to contact with the reinforcement.
No concrete pouring will be carried out unless the Engineer has inspected and approved the
formwork, false work and reinforcement.
The engineer will be informed in advance as to when the formwork removed. The minimum period
between concreting and formwork removal for gravity retaining wall will be 01 day.
B). Concreting
The concerting of the retaining wall will be integrally done as possible. The retaining wall will be
supported using prop supports adequately until embankment filling behind the retaining wall
completes. The prop supports will be re adjusted as the embankment filling progress.

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The sections will be separated using settlement joints. The length of section will be 10m or as
specified in working drawings. The base trench will be excavated to the required level and pass the
bearing capacity test prior to the base construction. Formwork will be installed as per the design
drawing. Concrete should be uniformly produced and transported to site by truck mixer.
The concrete will be delivered to site and discharge within one and half hours after addition of
cement to the aggregates. Each batch of concrete delivered will be accompanied with batch ticket
bearing complete batching information. The temperature of fresh concrete will be maintained less
than 32C. The addition of water after initial mixing will not allowed. The concrete that is not within
the specified consistency limits at the time of placement will not be used.
All mixed concrete will be placed and compacted in the formwork, using approved vibrators of the
internal, external, or screed types or combination of thereof depending on the type of Job.
After one layer of concrete 150-300mm rubble layer will be placed on top of paved concrete layer,
and cover with C20 concrete, compact adequately using poker vibrators until voids between rubbles
fully occupied with concrete. The maximum particle size of the rubble will be limit to 2/3 of the
width of the formwork, in any case the thickness of the retaining wall less than 400mm.
During continuous concrete pouring, fresh concrete will be poured on already laid concrete is less
than 30 minutes old and where this gap is exceeded further placing will be subjected to testing the
already placed concrete surface to be live. In the event of surface is not live, it shall be treated as a
construction joint and to be allowed to set.
All concrete will be placed in layers not more than 300mm. No concrete dropped from height greater
than about 1.5m except with a prior approval from the Engineer.
The freshly laid concrete will be kept undisturbed and protected from effects of sun and rain and
from drying out until it hardens. After hardened concrete will be cured for 7 days.
4..3 Backfilling
4.3.1 Backfilling of retaining wall base excavation
After construction of the base of retaining wall, the slopes of excavation pit will be trimmed or
prepared the gradients mentioned in the drawings. The materials for the backfilling will be soil
except peat and organic clay and free from timber and any other degradable materials. The
backfilling will be carried out in 150mm thick compacted layers using light compaction equipments.
The requirement for the compaction is to form a firm surface.

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4. 3.2 Embankment filling behind the retaining wall

The concerting of the retaining wall will be integrally done as possible. The retaining wall will be
supported using prop supports adequately until embankment filling behind the retaining wall
completes. The prop supports will be re adjusted as the embankment filling progress. The
embankment filling behind the retaining wall described in steps as follows;
Step 1: First layer of embankment will be laid, 0.3m thick and 0.3m high, impermeable clay layer
will be placed and compact, the embankment soil layer close to the retaining wall compact using
Light compaction equipment.
Step 2: Re adjust the prop supports to the wall on compacted embankment soil layer slightly away
from former prop position. Care shall be taken not to remove all prop supports in one time that
would affect stability of the wall. Place and compact embankment soil around earlier prop supports
to the specified density.
Step 3: Continue the procedure until filling and compaction completes up to the top of the retaining
wall. The Filer layer construction shall be carried out simultaneously with the embankment filling
behind the retaining wall.

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Construction Flow Chart for C20 rubble concrete Gravity retaining wall

Preparatio
n
Setting
Out
Base Trench
Excavation

Sub grade
Bearing
Capacity Test
Pass
Base Formwork

Fail

Analysis and
Solution

Settlement Joint
Construction

Base Rubble
Concreting
Base Pit
Backfilling

Wall Formwork &

Filter Layer
Construction
Wall Rubble
Concreting
Formwork
Removal &
Curing

Rebar Ladder, Weep hole,

Settlement Joint
Construction
Ancillary Work

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5.0 Quality assurance and Quality control measures

5.1 Bearing capacity check will be carried out after excavation to designed foundation level to
ensure that it meets the requirements given in the design.
5.2 All the materials will be check to confirm that they meet requirements
5.3 Mortar and C20 concrete will be in accordance with the approved mix design
5.4 Formworks are well prepared and fixed firmly
5.5 Concrete pouring and rubble masonry works strictly conform to the method statement

6. 0 HSE Measurements
6.1. Deep base pit with less stable slope should be excavated section by section or with intervals
between two sections. Moreover, temporary support structure should be strengthened
6.2. The location and height of the stockpiles of wasted soil after excavation should not influence the
stability of the base pit
6.3. The construction procedure should be arranged reasonably, and slope protection will be done to
prevent landslide or collapse;
6.4. Information about rainfall ought to be known timely to take protective measures preventing
newly constructed soil surface from being washed directly by raining.