Thank you for the reply
The situation is the Contractor prefers to apply Lap splice with the helical pitch is 300 throughout the non-required shear rebar zone.
If we follow the Contractor's instructions, the independence check may reject the design so I need some Code of practice or guidelines...
Do we need to apply the minimum shear spacing at LAP according to EN 1992-1-1:2004 (C8.7.4.2) for the Bored pile? (the spacing should be lesser than 150mm (Fig. 8.9)
I saw many practices drawing this principle is not applied
Is there any Code of practice or guideline that says we can ignore this...
