Farm Building and Structures Specifications
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- Health and Safety Guide for Construction Works (pdf 398Kb)
- Listing of dates of when specifications were updated - 27 October 2017 (pdf 131Kb)
Specifications
- S100 Concrete Specification - October 2015 (pdf 404Kb)
- S101: Minimum Specifications for the structure of Agricultural Buildings - July 2016 (pdf 645Kb)
- S101A Non Load Bearing Wall Panels for use in Cattle and Sheep Houses - June 2017 (pdf 113Kb)
- S101C - Retrofitting Roof Clear Sheets (Rooflights) with Safety Grid - December 2014 (pdf 103Kb)
- S101D Accepted Safety Grids for Under Translucent Sheets - January 2017 (pdf 389Kb)
- S102 Minimum Standards for Roof Cladding and Side Cladding - January 2017 (pdf 176Kb)
- S103 Upgrading of Existing Dairies, Milking Premises and Cow Houses - January 2016 (pdf 489Kb)
- Checklist for S.103 (pdf 679Kb)
- S104 - Minimum Specification for Hay and Straw Stores - January 2016 (pdf 153Kb)
- S105 Storage Structures for Farm Produce - February 2016 (pdf 203Kb)
- S106 Milking Premises and Dairies - June 2016 (pdf 321Kb)
- S108 Manure Pit and Dungsteads - June 2017 (pdf 411Kb)
- S108A Accepted Pre-cast Wall Panels for use in Manure Pits - July 2009 (pdf 13Kb)
- S109 Grain Storage on Farm - March 2017 (pdf 231Kb)
- S109A Accepted Pre-cast Wall Panels and A-Segment Walls for use un Grain Stores - August 2017 (pdf 63Kb)
- S110 Accepted Meal Bins and Grain Silos - September 2017 (pdf 16Kb)
- S117 Minimum Specifications for Housing of Organic Animals - June 2016 (pdf 534Kb)
- S120 Concrete Walled Silos - May 2016 (pdf 352Kb)
- S120P - Accepted Precast Silo Wall Panels - August 2017 (pdf 7Kb)
- S122 Minimum Specification for Proprietary Over-Ground Circular Slurry/Effluent Stores - January 2016 (pdf 187Kb)
- S122A Accepted Contractors for Proprietary Over-Ground Circular Slurry/Effluent Stores - June 2016 (pdf 65Kb)
- S123 Bovine Livestock Units and Reinforced Tanks - September 2017 (pdf 731Kb)
- S123A Extension of existing concrete tanks - February 2015 (pdf 268Kb)
- S123D Accepted Simple Aeration Systems for Grant-Aid - May 2016 (pdf 80Kb)
- S123M - Accepted Cattle Mats - March 2010 (pdf 24Kb)
- S123S Minimum Specification for the Replacement of Concrete Slats - May 2017 (pdf 211Kb)
- S123Y Accepted Pre-cast Tanks for Grant Aid - January 2017 (pdf 65Kb)
- S123Z Accepted Pre-cast Concrete Tank Walls for Grant Aid - Jan 2008 (pdf 13Kb)
- S124 Minimum Specification for Calf Housing - July 2016 (pdf 207Kb)
- S126 Minimum Specification for Geomembrane-lined Slurry/Effluent Stores, and Ancillary Works - Nov 02 (pdf 164Kb)
- S126A Accepted Contractors for Geomembrane Lined Slurry/Effluent Stores - September 2016 (pdf 63Kb)
- S127 - Minimum Specification for Gravel Roads and Access Roads to Mountain and Hill Pastures - Oct 08 (pdf 20Kb)
- S128 Concrete Silage Bases - November 2015 (pdf 256Kb)
- S128A Re-surfacing of silo floors - November 2015 In (pdf 180Kb)
- S129 Minimum Specification for Farmyard Drainage, Concrete Yards and Roads - January 2016 (pdf 253Kb)
- S131 Minimum Specification for Earth-Lined Slurry/Effluent Stores - Oct 2005 (pdf 240Kb)
Guidance document for Earth-Lined Slurry/Effluent Stores (PDF File 1MB) (pdf 1,073Kb) - S132 Minimum Specification for Out-Wintering Pads - Feb 2007 (pdf 442Kb)
- Guidance document for Out-Wintering Pads (pdf 596Kb)
- S132A Accepted Contractors for Geomembrane Lined Out-Wintering Pads - September 2016 (pdf 131Kb)
- S133 Minimum specification for Integrated Constructed Wetlands - June 2011 (pdf 353Kb)
- S135 Screening Belts and Shelter Belts for Farmyards and Farmbuildings - November 2008 In (pdf 213Kb)
- S136 Sheep Dipping and Handling Facilities - January 2016 (pdf 166Kb)
- S136A - Accepted Mobile Sheep Handling Facilities - July 2016 (pdf 125Kb)
- S137 Cattle Crush, Race and Enclosure - December 2015 (pdf 321Kb)
- S138 - Minimum Specification for Calving Gates and Mobile Cattle Crushes - August 2017 (pdf 106Kb)
- S144 Minimum Specification for Loose Dry Sow Units - January 2016 (pdf 271Kb)
- S144A Accepted Pre-Fabricated Wall Panels for Pig Houses - December 2012 (pdf 37Kb)
- S145 Minimum Specification of the Upgrading of Pig Houses - March 2016 (pdf 345Kb)
- S146 Wintering Facilities for Sheep - June 2016 (pdf 293Kb)
- S147 Calving Pens, Seperation Pens, and Isolation Boxes - November 2008 In (pdf 168Kb)
- S148 Farm Fencing - September 2016 (pdf 369Kb)
- S148A Accepted Fencing Posts - October 2017 (pdf 101Kb)
- S150 Minimum Specification for Laying Hen Houses - January 2016 (pdf 292Kb)
- S152 Minimum Specification for the Upgrading of Poultry Houses - March 2016 (pdf 403Kb)
- S154B Deer Handling Facilities and Housing - November 2008 In (pdf 152Kb)
- S156 Horse Facilities and Fencing - January 2016 (pdf 283Kb)
- S157 Accepted Proprietary Horse Facilities - July 2009 (pdf 20Kb)
- S159 Minimum Specifications for Goat Housing - March 2010 (pdf 97Kb)
- S160 Bull Housing - January 2016 (pdf 204Kb)
- S171 Rainwater Harvesting Equipment - January 2016 (pdf 341Kb)
- S171A Rainwater harvesting tanks - Jan 2014 (pdf 16Kb)
- S195 Minimum Specification for Tillage Machinery - July 2017 (pdf 676Kb)
- S196 Minimum Specification for Grain Driers - March 2017 (pdf 246Kb)
- S197 Minimum Specification for Precision Grass Measuring Equipment - May 2017 (pdf 77Kb)
- Accepted Concrete Slat List - October 2017 (pdf 432Kb)
Reference Costs
- TAMS II Reference Costs - July 2017 (pdf 891Kb)
- Explanatory Notes on Costings - TAMS II - 1 July 2017 (pdf 694Kb)
- Farm Safety Scheme Reference Costs and Explanatory Notes - 25 November 2014 (pdf 349Kb)
- TAMS Reference Costs - 1st October 2013 (pdf 150Kb)
- TAMS Own Machinery Guideline Rates - 1st October 2013 (pdf 105Kb)
- TAMS Reference Costs- 19th March 2013 (pdf 114Kb)
- TAMS Pig Poultry Sheep Dairy and Rain Costs - 1st March 2011 (pdf 110Kb)
- TAMS Explanatory Notes on Costings Version 4 - 19th March 2013 (pdf 142Kb)
- FIS Standard Costings 2007 (pdf 125Kb)
- Explanatory Notes on FIS Costings - February 2008 (pdf 347Kb)
- Standard Costings 2007 (pdf 432Kb)
Sample Certificates for completion of Contract
- Certificate of Protection Structural Steel - July 2017 (pdf 462Kb)
- Certificate of Guarantee for beams and slabs (pdf 40Kb)
- Certificate for Installation of Mechanical/Electrical Equipment (pdf 21Kb)
- Contractors Certificate of Ground Preparation and Leak Tightness for Proprietary Over-Ground Circular Slurry/Effluent Stores (pdf 13Kb)
Other Documents
- Recommended Animal Areas (pdf 19Kb)
- Farm Structures List - Planning Permission (doc 111Kb)
- Planning and Development Regulations, 2001 : Rural
- Circulars 2004
- Circulars 2003
- Circulars 2002
- Circulars 2001
- Documents and Application Forms for OFI Schemes
Acceptance Procedures for inclusion on accepted lists:
- Procedure for Inclusion on Accepted Concrete Slats List August 2015 (pdf 336Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion of Plastic Slats on Accepted Slat List - March 2016 (pdf 8Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion of beams, solid slabs and hollowcore slabs on the accepted slat list - August 2017 (pdf 150Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S101A - June 2015 (pdf 9Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S108A - August 2015 (pdf 9Kb)
- Procedure for Inclusion on S109A - July 2017 (pdf 61Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S110 - March 2010 (pdf 84Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S120P - June 2015 (pdf 9Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S122A - March 2010 (pdf 15Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S123D - June 2015 (pdf 8Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S123Y - August 2017 (pdf 9Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S123Z - August 2015 (pdf 9Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S126A - March 2010 (pdf 13Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S132A - March 2010 (pdf 12Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S144A - August 2015 (pdf 10Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S148A - August 2015 (pdf 8Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S157 - March 2010 (pdf 13Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S171A - August 2017 (pdf 9Kb)
- Pre-painted metal cladding acceptance procedures - October 2015 (pdf 246Kb)
- Metal Purlin Acceptance Procedures - January 2010 (pdf 61Kb)
