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[After completion of the TAB work, prepare a pre-final TAB report using the
reporting forms approved in the pre-field engineering report. Data
required by those approved data report forms shall be furnished by the TAB
team. Except as approved otherwise in writing by the Contracting Officer,
the TAB work and the TAB report shall be considered incomplete until the
TAB work is accomplished to within the accuracy range specified in the
paragraph entitled "Workmanship" of this section.
Prepare the report neatly and legibly; the pre-final TAB report shall be
the final TAB report minus the TAB supervisor's review and certification.
Obtain, at the contract site, the TAB supervisor's review and certification
of the TAB report.
Verbally notify the Contracting Officer's TAB representative that the field
check of the Certified TAB report data can commence; give this verbal
notice 48 hours in advance of when the field checking shall commence. Do
not schedule field check of the Certified TAB report until the specified
workmanship requirements have been met or written approval of the
deviations from the requirements have been received from the Contracting
Officer.]
3.2.11
3.2.11.1
Field Check
During field check, the Contractor shall check, in the presence of the
air quantities, air motion, sound level readings) recorded in the Certified
TAB Report. Points and areas of field checks shall be selected by the
Contracting Officer's TAB representative. Measurement and test procedures
shall be the same as approved for TAB work for the Certified TAB Report.
Selections for recheck will not exceed 25 percent of the total number of
3.2.11.2
Additional Field Checks
If any of the data checked for a given HVAC field check group are
determined to be out-of-tolerance, data checking for all affected data for
that group shall be terminated and the affected TAB report data for the
given group shall be disapproved. The Contractor shall make the necessary
corrections and prepare a revised Certified TAB Report. A field check of
the revised report data shall then be rescheduled with the Contracting
Officer's TAB representative.
Further, if any data on the Certified TAB Report for a given field check
group is out-of-tolerance, then data for one additional field check group
shall be field checked as specified herein. This increase field check work
shall continue until out-of-tolerance data ceases to to be found. This
additional field checking is up and above the original 25 percent of the of
If there are no more of the similar field check group, additional field
checking from another, but different, type of field check group shall be
checked.
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