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SPECIAL TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

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Special terms and abbreviations used in technical design reports

During the performing of the design, and in this report, some codes, terms and abbreviations have been frequently used and are here next listed:

Inst./Firm	description
PCU	Project Co-ordination Unit - (employer: City of Mostar)
PCU TA	Project Co-ordination Unit Technical Assistance
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
ICE	International Committee of Experts
WB	World Bank
ICHM	Institute for Preservation of Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage of Mostar
CONEX	CONEX - Company in charge of the investigations
LGA	LGA - Company in charge of the laboratory tests
GE	General Engineering – Company in charge of the design of the bridge
OG	Omega Engineering – Company in charge of the design of the towers
WS	Work Supervisor

Some other technical abbreviations and terms have been used in the report, and for a detailed explanation it may be referred also to § 2.3.9 of this report. A list of the most important abbreviation used is, anyhow, here next reported:

technical term	description
Phase A	Preliminary study and research phase of current assignment
Phase B	Final design phase of current assignment
Inception report	Starting report (after 40 working days)
Phase A report	Preliminary study report (end of phase A)
Phase B report	Final report (this report)
1955 survey	Ancient survey of the bridge held in the year 1955
1982 survey	Ancient survey of the bridge held in the year 1982
2000 survey	Most likely geometry of former bridge
Drw	Drawing
BoQ	Bill of Quantities
ToR	Terms of Reference (contractual terms of the assignment)
CAD	Computer Aided Drawing
a.s.l.	above sea level
r.w.o.	rain water outlet
MPa	Mega Pascal
XX	XX
SMS	Stari Most Stones
SMS-A	Stari Most Stones – load bearing Arch
SMS-B	Stari Most Stones – Bridge stones
SMS-Bsp	Stari Most Stones – Bridge stones - spandrels
SMS-Bc1	Stari Most Stones – Bridge stones - lower cornices
SMS-Bc2	Stari Most Stones – Bridge stones - upper cornices
SMS-Bpa	Stari Most Stones – Bridge stones - parapets
SMS-C	Stari Most Stones – bridge fill and stiffening rib
SMS-D	Stari Most Stones – pedestrian flooring
SMS-RS	Stari Most Stones – Recovered Stones
SMS-LS	Stari Most Stones – Lost Stones
SMS-BS	Stari Most Stones – Built Stones
SMS-mk	Stari Most Stones – marked stones
A-1°	Already assembled voussoir (arch stone)
A-2°	Voussoir (arch stone) to be assmbled
XX	XX
QY-blocks	quarrying of huge blocks from the source site
SC-rough	rough stone cut in parallelepipeds + (qt) min cm3
SC-final	final stone cut with final shape and dimensions
SF-adjusting	stone finishing and adjusting
qt	Quarrying tolerance (cm3)
nov	Number of voussoirs in current row
dev	Deviation from row plan
XX	XX
(Drw) GE-XX	General Drawings
(Drw) CU-XX	Current Condition drawings
(Drw) RM-XX	Remedial Works drawings
(Drw) DS-XX	Dismantling Works drawings
(Drw) PH-XX	Construction Phases drawings
(Drw) RE-XX	Reconstruction Works drawings
(Drw) RF-XX	Reference drawings
(Drw) SC-XX	Stone Cut drawings
(Drw) ME-XX	Metal Elements drawings
(Drw) AD-XX	Additional and Details drawings
(Drw) TW-XX	Survey of the Towers drawings
(Drw) XX-XX	Excluded drawings

CREDITS:

Intellectual property of this report and of the design drawings is owned by General Engineering s.r.l.

author of the text: arch. Manfredo Romeo – other contributes have been mentioned in related paragraphs

SOURCE:

Final Design Report

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