What results when the building codes are not observed

Conclusions

• 1. Mechanical equipment is a complex set of devices regulating water discharges. When mechanical equipment is accepted for service, start-up and adjustment works should without fail be carried out by a specially created organization or by assembly groups with the enlistment of the authors of the project. All requirements imposed on the extent of start-up and adjustment works should be formulated in newly developed guides, which are prepared by the State All-Union Construction and Installation Trust (Gidromontazh) in place of the abolished sections of SNiP III-18-75.

• 2. The effect of the sections of SNiP III-18-75 concerning mechanical equipment of hydraulic structures has not been abolished in organization of the USSR Ministry of Power and Electrification (Minenergo), and therefore before publication of the new guide RD-34-02-89 “Manufacture, installation, and acceptance of mechanical equipment of hydraulic structures,” all requirements of the building codes and standards of the technological designing of hydrostations should be fulfilled by all participants in the creation of mechanical equipment (designers, manufacturers, installers, and adjustors of Gidromontazh), as well as by the designers, builders, and operators of hydraulic and hydropower structures.