Stubbs Engineering Ltd.
Consulting Engineers
1911 - 66th Avenue, RR1, S-50, C-17
Osoyoos, BC V0H 1V0, Canada
Phone (250) 495-4446

FASTBAG® FABRIC FORMWORK

Building officials and contractors concerned with the rounded appearance of the concrete filled Fastbag® should realize it is a temporary form and will provide the critical footing width and depth when filled with concrete.

The Fastbag® provides the shear and punching shear requirements for the empirical depth and width requirements of Section 1806.2 and Table 18-I-C, or as designed under section 1922.7 of the 1997 Uniform Building Code, and Subsection 9.15.3 of the Canadian 1995 National Building Code.

Fastbags® meet the requirements of ACI 347R-94, 'Guide to Formwork for Concrete', which encourages and allows contractors to take responsibility for the use of forming materials that provide the most economical solution to their forming problems, whilst meeting the contract requirements of the design or project they are building.

Concrete savings are achieved by using Fastbags® as the curved upper edge saves on concrete, and there is no leakage with the bag. The system can be considered "environmentally friendly" as it reduces significantly the lumber used to form footings as well as the energy costs of moving, storing, and cleaning that lumber.

STUBBS ENGINEERING LTD.
Robert M. Stubbs, PE, P. Eng
January 16th, 2003