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 (doc 99Kb)
- S101 Minimum Specifications for the structure of Agricultural Buildings - July 2016 (doc 2,188Kb)
- S101A Non-Load Bearing Wall Panels for use in Cattle and Sheep Houses - June 2017 (doc 39Kb)
- S101C Retrofitting Roof Clear Sheets (Rooflights) with Safety Grid - December 2014 (doc 56Kb)
- S101D Accepted Safety Grids for Under Translucent Sheets - January 2017 (doc 1,027Kb)
- S102 Minimum Standards for Roof Cladding and Side Cladding - January 2017 (doc 103Kb)
- S103 Upgrading of Existing Daries, Milking Premises and Cow Houses - January 2016 (doc 92Kb)
- Checklist for S.103 (xls 39Kb)
- S104 Minimum Specification for Hay and Straw Stores - January 2016 (doc 46Kb)
- S105 Storage Structures for Farm Produce - February 2016 (doc 230Kb)
- S106 Milking Premises and Dairies - June 2016 (doc 95Kb)
- S108 Manure pits and dungsteads - June 2017 (doc 755Kb)
- S108A Accepted Pre-Cast Wall Panels for use in Manure Pits - July 2009 (doc 28Kb)
- S109 Grain Storage on Farm - March 2017 (doc 244Kb)
- S109A Accepted Pre-cast Wall Panels and A-Segment Walls for use un Grain Stores - August 2017 (doc 35Kb)
- S110 Accepted Meal Bins and Grain Silos - September 2017 (doc 42Kb)
- S117 Minimum Specifications for Housing of Organic Animals - June 2016 (doc 377Kb)
- S120 Concrete walled silos May 2016 (doc 1,884Kb)
- S120P Accepted Precast Silo Wall Panels - August 2017 (doc 30Kb)
- S122 Minimum Specification for Proprietary Over-Ground Circular Slurry/Effluent Stores - January 2016 (doc 66Kb)
- S122A Accepted Contractors for Proprietary Over-Ground Circular Slurry/Effluent Stores - June 2016 (doc 39Kb)
- S123 Bovine Livestock Units and Reinforced Tanks - September 2017 (doc 1,704Kb)
- S123A Extension of existing concrete tanks - February 2015 (doc 235Kb)
- S123D Accepted Simple Aeration Systems for Grant-Aid - May 2016 (doc 76Kb)
- S123M Accepted Cattle Mats - March 2010 (doc 56Kb)
- S123S Minimum Specification for the Replacement of Concrete Slats - May 2017 (doc 164Kb)
- S123Y Accepted Pre-cast Tanks for Grant-Aid - January 2017 (doc 35Kb)
- 123Z Accepted Pre-cast Concrete Tank Walls for Grant-Aid - January 2008 (doc 23Kb)
- S124 Minimum Specifications for Calf Housing - July 2016 (doc 115Kb)
- S126 Minimum Specification for Geomembrane-lined Slurry/Effluent Stores, and Ancillary Works - Nov 02 (doc 52Kb)
- S126A Accepted Contractors for Geomembrane Lined Slurry/Effluent Stores - September 2016 (doc 38Kb)
- S127 - Minimum Specification for Gravel Roads and Access Roads to Mountain and Hill Pastures - Oct 08 (doc 16Kb)
- S128 Concrete silage bases - November 2015 (doc 875Kb)
- S128A Re-surfacing of silo floors - November 2015 (pdf 180Kb)
- S129 Minimum Specifications for Farmyard Drainage, Concrete Yards and Roads - January 2016 (doc 118Kb)
- S131 Minimum Specification for Earth-Lined Slurry/Effluent Stores - Oct 2005 (doc 1,170Kb)
- Guidance document for Earth-Lined Slurry/Effluent Stores (doc 2,611Kb)
- 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 (doc 36Kb)
- S133 Minimum specification for Integrated Constructed Wetlands - June 2011 (doc 205Kb)
- S135 Screening Belts and Shelter Belts for Farmyards and Farmbuildings - November 2008 (doc 39Kb)
- S136 Sheep Dipping and Handling Facilities - January 2016 (doc 55Kb)
- S136A - Accepted Mobile Sheep Handling Facilities - July 2016 (doc 41Kb)
- S137 Cattle Crush, Race and Enclosure - December 2015 (doc 661Kb)
- S138 Minimum Specification for Calving Gates and Mobile Cattle Crushes - August 2017 (doc 125Kb)
- S144 Minimum Specification for Loose Dry Sow Units - January 2016 (doc 248Kb)
- S144A Accepted Pre-Fabricated Wall Panels for Pig Houses - December 2012 (doc 31Kb)
- S145 Minimum Specification for the Upgrading of Pig Houses - March 2016 (doc 109Kb)
- S146 Wintering facilities for sheep - June 2016 (doc 219Kb)
- S147 Calving Pens, Seperation Pens, and Isolation Boxes - November 2008 (doc 36Kb)
- S148 Farm Fencing - September 2016 (doc 164Kb)
- S148A Accepted Fencing Posts - October 2017 (doc 62Kb)
- S150 Minimum Specification for Laying Hen Houses - January 2016 (doc 230Kb)
- S152 Minimum Specification for the Upgrading of Poultry Houses - March 2016 (doc 187Kb)
- S154B Deer Handling Facilities and Housing - November 2008 (doc 37Kb)
- S156 Horse Facilities and Fencing - January 2016 (doc 867Kb)
- S157 Accepted Propriety Horse Facilitites - July 2009 (doc 69Kb)
- S159 Minimum Specification for Goat Housing - March 2010 (doc 296Kb)
- S160 Bull Housing - January 2016 (doc 79Kb)
- S171 Rainwater harvesting Equipment - January 2016 (doc 196Kb)
- S171A Rainwater harvesting tanks - Jan 2014 (doc 39Kb)
- S195 Minimum Specification for Tillage Machinery - July 2017 (doc 1,523Kb)
- S196 Minimum Specification for Grain Driers - March 2017 (doc 62Kb)
- S197 Minimum Specification for Precision Grass Measuring Equipment - May 2017 (doc 79Kb)
- Accepted Concrete Slat List - October 2017 (doc 269Kb)
Reference Costs
- TAMS II Reference Costs - July 2017 (doc 600Kb)
- Explanatory Notes on Costings - TAMS II - 1 July 2017 (doc 776Kb)
- Farm Safety Scheme Reference Costs and Explanatory Notes - 25 November 2014 (doc 132Kb)
- TAMS Reference Costs - 1st October 2013 (xls 61Kb)
- TAMS Own Machinery Guideline Rates - 1st October 2013 (doc 45Kb)
- TAMS Reference Costs - 19th March 2013 (xls 61Kb)
- TAMS Pig Poultry Sheep Dairy and Rain Costs - 1st March 2011 (xls 45Kb)
- TAMS Explanatory Notes on Costings Version 4 - 19th March 2013 (doc 104Kb)
- FIS Standard Costings 2007 (xls 83Kb)
- Explanatory Notes on FIS Costings - February 2008 (doc 924Kb)
- Standard Costings 2007 (doc 1,140Kb)
Sample Certificates for completion of Contact
- Certificate of Protection Structural Steel - July 2017 (doc 25Kb)
- Certificate of Guarantee for beams and slabs (doc 23Kb)
- Certificate for Installation of Mechanical/Electrical Equipment (doc 25Kb)
- Contractors Certificate of Ground Preparation and Leak Tightness for Proprietary Over-Ground Circular Slurry/Effluent Stores (doc 24Kb)
Other Documents
- Recommended Animal Areas (doc 29Kb)
- 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 Slat List - August 2015 (doc 182Kb)
- Procedure for the Inclusion of Plastic Slats on Accepted Slat List - March 2016 (doc 24Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion of beams, solid slabs and hollowcore slabs on the accepted slat list - August 2017 (doc 40Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S101A - June 2015 (doc 24Kb)
- Procedure for Inclusion on S108A - August 2015 (doc 26Kb)
- Procedure for Inclusion on S109A - July 2017 (pdf 61Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S110 - March 2010 (doc 24Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S120P - June 2015 (doc 24Kb)
- Procedure for Inclusion on S122A - March 2010 (doc 25Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S123D - June 2015 (doc 23Kb)
- Procedure for Inclusion on S123Y - August 2017 (doc 25Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S123Z - August 2015 (doc 26Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S126A - March 2010 (doc 24Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S132A - March 2010 (doc 27Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S144A - August 2015 (doc 25Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S148A - August 2015 (doc 24Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S157 - March 2010 (doc 24Kb)
- Procedure for inclusion on S171A -August 2017 (doc 25Kb)
- Pre-painted metal cladding acceptance procedures - October 2015 (doc 67Kb)
- Metal Purlin Acceptance Procedures - January 2010 (doc 62Kb)
