This document provides performance requirements for standards on concrete structures. It can be used for international alignment of design, assessment and construction requirements.

This document includes:

a)       principles, which guide the selection of requirements that translate societal and owner’s expectations for the performance of the concrete structure;

b)       requirements, which define the required performance of the concrete structure;

c)        criteria, which give means for expressing the requirements;

d)       evaluation clauses, which give acceptable methods of verifying the specific criteria.