in Advice, Construction drawings, Foundations, subfloors and screeds: Watchpoints, Site access, Site assessment
Alternative foundation types
Options for difficult sites, from piled foundations to earth bags. Foundation solutions today are not so very different from those which the earliest house-builders had to work out. The big change nowadays is that all foundations are designed with an adequate ‘factor of safety’ to allow for unforeseen circumstances. The main considerations are simply that: […] More