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General notes, rebar callouts, bar sizes, cover, laps, anchor bolts, the batch ticket and strength acceptance. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 63 illustrated pages.
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Every page has a big drawing and a box with the numbers and code references you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 8 parts and 59 topics.
You're checking a column cage. The drawing says 1-1/2 in. of cover and your tape reads 1-1/2 in. to the main bar. But the ties sit outside it.
The manual answers with a paragraph and a table of nominal diameters, weights and areas. You read it, it makes sense, and an hour later it's gone.
In the book, cover is one page: the column drawn in section, the tape going to the outermost steel, the tie, and a red flag: measure to the main bar and you come up short by the tie diameter.
Mill marks, standard hooks, cover cast against earth, development length and the batch ticket work the same way: each one has its own page.
You get it, and when you open the code, on site or at the exam, you already know which section to turn to.
The job and the code, reading the drawings, the bar itself, spacing and cover, development and laps, embeds and forms, the pour and the samples, and the report: 63 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
It's the morning of a slab pour. The ironworkers say they're done, the pump is booked for ten, and you have to walk the deck and give a yes or a no.
You open the book to “Your Pre-Pour Walk, in Order” and see the deck drawn with the route marked: drawings, bars, spacing and cover, laps, embeds, forms. One check after another, always in the same order.
Same thing with cover cast against earth, development length, cast-in anchor bolts, the batch ticket and strength acceptance: each one on its own page.
Concrete Special Inspector Illustrated is 8 parts and 59 topics, all drawn, and it ends with an open-book lookup drill and the whole route on one page.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
What a special inspector signs, your map of IBC Chapter 17, Table 1705.3 line by line, continuous vs. periodic, the statement of special inspections and which code edition applies.
General notes first, a rebar callout taken apart, tricky abbreviations, following the bubble from plan to detail, schedules, placing drawings, bar lists and RFIs.
Bar sizes in eighths of an inch, mill marks, A615, A706 and epoxy-coated, standard and seismic hooks, rust and coating damage, field bending and heating.
Cover cast against earth, exposed and interior cover, measuring to the outermost steel, tolerances, minimum and maximum spacing, chairs and bolsters.
Development length in one picture, Class A vs. Class B laps, top bars, contact and noncontact laps, staggering, column dowels, couplers and welded splices.
Cast-in and post-installed anchors, conduits and sleeves, formwork, clean forms, construction joints and waterstops, and your pre-pour walk in order.
The batch ticket, 90 minutes or 300 revolutions, water added on site, sampling, slump, air and temperature, cylinders, how many tests, placement and curing.
Strength acceptance, the daily report, nonconformance write-ups, the discrepancy chain, common inspection mistakes, an open-book lookup drill and the whole route on one page.
At the end of the book: An open-book lookup drill and the whole inspection route on one page.
Exam-style questions with the answer explained and the code section where you find it, so you practice looking things up fast, not just memorizing.
One-page sheets that show where each topic lives in IBC Chapter 17 and ACI 318, so you know which page to flip to before you open the book.
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You learn each check as a drawing, with the code section marked, so you know what to look for and where it lives.
The open-book exam rewards knowing where to look. The book gives you the map before the clock starts.
Print the pages you need and take them to the site: cover, laps, anchor bolts and the batch ticket, checked in the same order every time.
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Yes. It's not a beginner's book: it starts from what you already see in the field and shows what you check, in what order, and where it lives in the code.
From the references for the reinforced concrete special inspector exam: IBC Chapter 17, ACI 318-19, ACI 117 and the ASTM field-test standards (C172, C143, C231/C173, C1064, C31, C94). Each value has its code section next to it, so if your jurisdiction or the current ICC exam bulletin lists a different edition, you know exactly what to check.
No. It's an independent illustrated study book, not ICC material, and it doesn't give you any certification: that only comes from passing the ICC exam. It doesn't reproduce code text or tables: it draws the concept and points you to the section.
No. You still need the current code editions and your training. And it's not a reference you can bring into the exam: only the books listed in the ICC exam bulletin are allowed. The book teaches you to read them and find things fast.
No. They're written for this book, in the exam's style, with the answer explained and the code section where you find it.
The book and the 2 bonus books come as a PDF by email, to the address you enter at checkout.
No. It's a one-time payment.
It comes as a PDF, not a printed book. It's made to print, so you can print the pages you need and take them to the job site.
You have 30 days. We refund everything if the file won't open, if the book isn't what you see on this page, if you were charged twice or if the email doesn't arrive: just email us.
No more rereading the code without anything sticking.
Cover, laps and bar sizes: you see them drawn and that's it.
You walk into the exam knowing where everything is.
Drawings make studying faster.
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