BRITISH STANDARD BS 6579-7:

1989
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Safety fences and

barriers for
highways —
Part 7: Specification for components for
untensioned corrugated beam safety
fence

UDC 625.738.692.88
 BS 6579-7:1989

Committees responsible for this

British Standard
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The preparation of this British Standard was entrusted by the Road

Engineering Standards Policy Committee (RDB/-) to Technical Committee
RDB/18, upon which the following bodies were represented:

Aluminium Federation
Association of Consulting Engineers
British Cement Association
British Railways Board
British Steel Industry
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
County Surveyors’ Society
Department of Transport
Institution of British Engineers
Institution of Civil Engineers
Institution of Highways and Transportation
Royal Automobile Club
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

The following bodies were also represented in the drafting of the standard,
through subcommittees and panels:

Department of Transport (Engineering Policy and Programme Division)

Department of Transport (Transport and Road Research Laboratory)
Fencing Contractors’ Association

This British Standard, having

been prepared under the
direction of the Road Engineering
Standards Policy Committee,
was published under the
authority of the Board of BSI
and comes into effect on Amendments issued since publication
31 December 1989

© BSI 03-1999
Amd. No. Date of issue Comments

The following BSI references

relate to the work on this
standard:
Committee reference RDB/18
Draft for comment 87/14724 DC

ISBN 0 580 17714 9

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Contents
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Page
Committees responsible Inside front cover
Foreword ii
0 Introduction 1
1 Scope 1
2 Definitions 1
3 Components 2
4 Tolerances 3
5 Protective finish 3
6 Marking 3
Appendix A Vehicle safety fences and barriers for
highways: type characteristics 4
Appendix B Transition between untensioned corrugated beam safety fence,
bridge parapets and other types of safety fence 5
Appendix C List of components 5
Appendix D Information to be supplied 6
Appendix E Transport, handling and storage 6
Figure 1 — Untensioned corrugated beam safety fence 7
Figure 2 — Details of beams for untensioned corrugated beam safety fence 8
Figure 3 — Details of posts for untensioned corrugated beam safety fence 9
Figure 4 — Profile and hole positions for corrugated beams 10
Figure 5 — Untensioned corrugated beam safety fence
connection to steel parapet 11
Figure 6 — Untensioned corrugated beam safety fence connection to
BACO (BACO Contracts Ltd.) parapet 12
Figure 7 — Untensioned corrugated beam safety fence connection to
AHDE (Alcan High Duty Extrusions Ltd.) parapet 13
Figure 8 — Diagrammatical representation of fences and barriers 14
Table 1 — Safety fences and barriers: type characteristics 4
Table 2 — List of components 4
Publications referred to Inside back cover

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