Bar placing subcontractor—A contractor or subcontrac-
tor who handles and places reinforcement and bar supports,
often colloquially referred to as a bar placer or placer.
Bar supports—Devices of formed wire, plastic or precast
concrete to support, hold, and space reinforcing bars.
Butt-welded splice—Reinforcing bar splice made by
welding the butted ends of the reinforcing bars.
Contract documents—Documents, including the project
drawings and project specifications, covering the required
work.
Contractor—Person, firm, or corporation with whom the
owner enters into an agreement for construction of the work.
Coupler—Threaded device for joining reinforcing bars
for the purpose of providing transfer of either axial compres-
sion or axial tension or both from one bar to the other.
Coupling sleeve—Nonthreaded device fitting over the
ends of two reinforcing bars for the eventual purpose of pro-
viding transfer of either axial compression or axial tension or
both from one bar to the other.
Detailer—Drafter who prepares reinforcing bar placing
drawings and bar lists.
Fabricator—A bar company that is capable of preparing
placing drawings, bar lists, and storing, shearing, bending,
bundling, tagging, loading, and delivering reinforcing bars.
Mechanical splice—The complete assembly of an end-
bearing sleeve, a coupler, or a coupling sleeve, and possibly
additional materials or parts to accomplish the connection of
reinforcing bars.
Owner—Corporation, association, partnership, individu-
al, or public body or authority with whom the contractor en-
ters into agreement, and for whom the work is provided.
Placing drawings—Detailed drawings or sketches that
give the size, location, and spacing of the bars, and all other
information required by the contractor to place the reinforc-
ing steel.
