SITE/FOOTING

Footing: the footing depends on what we decide to do with the site I suggest that we do a cut and fill, with a strip footing however if we have a post and beam system it may be more practical to have piles. however if we use controlled fill and extend out edge beam to the undisturbed ground (deepened strip footing) it should be able to support a post and beam system, see AS 2870 p. 52 (I will bring a copy of it with me to next class) the sizes etc

i have drawn up in cad the site with the cut and fill (not sure of the quality that it will be here because i had to save it as a jpg (i will post it separately just in case it doesn't work)

the joint i have thought about the joing between the footing and structure however it depends on the walls...have we decided what we are doing with them?

SITE: with the site we can:

• cut
• fill
• cut and fill
• suspended slab
• stepped slab

(i would post drawings however i am having issues with blogger when i have more images per post and i think you all know what they are)

what i think we should go with...

cut and filled site with a deepened strip footing