ERRATA ERRATA NO.5 TO IRC:112-2011 “CODE OF PRACTICE FOR CONCRETE ROAD BRIDGES” S.No Reference For Read Regarding the Structural Design of Concrete Road] Annexure-4 to IRC:112- | Annexure-4 Bridges constructed on National Highways, in reference | 2011 “Structural Design | to IRC:112- to Para 2 of MoRTH policy Circular No. RW-NH- | by Working Loads! 2011 stands 35075/9/06-S&R(B) dated 18th June, 2014 on ‘Code of| Allowable Stresses withdrawn Practice for Concrete Road Bridges (Limit State Method) | Method” henceforth as per IRC:112-2011 and withdrawal of IRC:18 and for National IRC:21 which read as: Highway works. “Keeping in view the need for smooth transition and gradual acquaintance of practicing Engineers, Ministry has decided that the use of working Loads/ Allowable stress methods as given in Annexure A-4 of IRC:112-2011 may be followed till the end of year 2015 (i.e. 31.12.2015), However, the practicing engineers should try to adopt Limit State Design methodology as per IRC:112-2011 at the earliest.” And Para I (iii) of MoRTH policy Circular No. RW-NH- 35075/9/2006-S&R(B) dated 2nd September, 2016 on ‘Design and General Features for bridge structures to be constructed on National Highways’ which read as: “Structural Design: Henceforth, all new bridges and its components shall be structurally designed strictly ‘as per IRC:112 after following the “Limit State Design Philosophy” except those components for which IRC codes and standards based on limit state are not available. Loading will be considered as per IRC:6 including 385 ‘Tonnes Special Vehicle. Latest edition of the code notified/published either at the time of project consideration/conceptualization or at least 60 days prior to the last date of bid submission need to be considered for this purpose. It will supersede the Ministry's earlier circular_is letter_no._RW-NH- SER(B) date 14. INDIAN HIGHWAYS | MARCH 2017