Specifications

NAIROBI OPERATIONAL HUB
UNOPS Building, UN Lane, Off UN Avenue Tel: [phone]
P.O Box 783,Village Market, 00621 E-mail: [e-mail]
Nairobi, Kenya Website: www.unops.org
UNOPS is ISO 9001 certified
B. He shall furnish and install all sleeves and inserts required for this work.
Cutting and patching of any part of the structure shall be done only after
review by the Supervising Engineer.
3.05 Access Panels
Access panels shall be installed where indicated and as required for access to
equipment and apparatus. Where, in the opinion of the Contractor access panels
are required, but are not shown on the drawings, the Contractor shall provide
same and relocate same on the as-built drawings.
3.06 Painting
A. All shop fabricated and factory built equipment not galvanized, plated or provided
with standard finish paint, shall be cleaned and given one shop coat of lead free
primer paint, before delivery to the sit. Under no circumstances, shall the
nameplate, label or tag of any equipment be covered with field painting.
B. The exterior of electrical panels, panel boards, cabinets, switchgear, transformers
and the like shall be finished in ANSI 61 gray. The interiors shall be finished in a
light or white colour.
3.07 Touching Up
A. Painting: Damaged or inadequate paint films of shop painted miscellaneous metal
materials, and all accessible surfaces of field welds and connection bolts, shall be
cleaned and prime painted. Touch up paint for shop primed materials and
ungalvanized bolts shall be the same as that used for the shop coat.
B. Galvanizing: Galvanizing surface scratched or otherwise damaged during
delivery, unloading, or erection shall be thoroughly cleaned by wire brushing the
damaged area to remove all loose, cracked or bruised galvanizing. Cleaned areas
shall then be painted with zinc rich galvanizing paint of an inorganic zinc
compound of zinc dust and zinc oxide, with the zinc dust content of 75 per cent or
better by weight of the total nonvolatile content. Application of touch up
galvanizing shall be applied at a dry film thickness of at least 0.75mm.
3.08 Tests