Bar bending schedule is used to communicate the design requirement if reinforcement steel to the fabricator and execution team and to enumerate the weight of each size of steel. This is a list of reinforcement bars in a tabular form and the following essential details are generally given for a bar bending schedule in RCC works:

1. Bar mark-this gives the position of the bar in the structure
2. Diameter of bar
3. The shape and bending dimensions of the bar.
4. Length of each bar
5. Number of the same type of bars
6. Total length
7. Weight of each bar per meter length
8. Total weight.

Importance of Preparing Bar bending schedule:

1. For a structural engineer, concrete reinforcement is very critical and time consuming job. Steel reinforcements are generally used in the form of circular bars in a concrete structure.
2. They resemble a skeleton in human body. Only concrete without any reinforcement is capable to withstand compression but cannot resist tension.
3. Steel is one of the widely used reinforcements to strengthen the concrete and bear dead and live loads. Bar-bending-schedule is the schedule of steel bars reinforcement prepared well before cutting and bending rebar.
4. Bar bending schedule helps in determining appropriate material quantities, strength and cost estimation.