DSLBD Office Fit Out - Broughton Construction Company

1.8 COORDINATION
A. Coordinate sizes and locations of framing, blocking, furring, reinforcements, and other related units of Work specified
in other Sections to ensure that interior architectural woodwork can be supported and installed as indicated.
B. Hardware Coordination: Distribute copies of approved hardware schedule specified in Division 8 Section “Door
Hardware (Scheduled by Describing Products) " to fabricator of architectural woodwork; coordinate Shop Drawings
and fabrication with hardware requirements.
PART 2 - PRODUCTS
2.1 MATERIALS
A. General: Provide materials that comply with requirements of AWI's quality standard for each type of woodwork and
quality grade specified, unless otherwise indicated.
B. Wood Species and Cut for Transparent Finish: See Appendix A.
C. Wood Species for Opaque Finish: Close Grained Hardwood.
D. Wood Products: Comply with the following:
1. Hardboard: AHA A135.4.
2. Medium-Density Fiberboard: ANSI A208.2, Grade MD,
3. Particleboard: Straw-based particleboard complying with requirements in ANSI A208.1, Grade M-2, except
for density.
4. Veneer-Faced Panel Products (Hardwood Plywood): HPVA HP-1.
E. Thermoset Decorative Panels: Particleboard or medium-density fiberboard finished with thermally fused, melamineimpregnated
decorative paper complying with LMA SAT-1.
1. Provide PVC or polyester edge banding complying with LMA EDG-1 on components with exposed or semi
exposed edges.
F. High-Pressure Decorative Laminate: NEMA LD 3, grades as indicated or, if not indicated, as required by woodwork
quality standard.
2.2 FIRE-RETARDANT-TREATED MATERIALS
A. General: Where fire-retardant-treated materials are indicated, use materials complying with requirements in this
Article, which are acceptable to authorities having jurisdiction, and with fire-test-response characteristics specified.
1. Do not use treated materials that do not comply with requirements of referenced woodworking standard or
that are warped, discolored, or otherwise defective.
2. Use fire-retardant-treatment formulations that do not bleed through or otherwise adversely affect finishes. Do
not use colorants to distinguish treated materials from untreated materials.
3. Identify fire-retardant-treated materials with appropriate classification marking of UL, U.S. Testing, Timber
Products Inspection, or another testing and inspecting agency acceptable to authorities having jurisdiction.
B. Fire-Retardant Particleboard: Panels complying with the following requirements, made from softwood particles and
fire-retardant chemicals mixed together at time of panel manufacture to achieve flame-spread index of 25 or less and
smoke-developed index of 25 or less per ASTM E 84.
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