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Foundation

Foundation

Five usual sections: spread footing, strip footing, mat, piles, and slab on grade. The soils report picks among them.

Turn the form

A spread footing is a pad under one column. The load spreads into the soil under that pad.

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A spread footing is a pad under one column. The load spreads into the soil under that pad.

A foundation teaching section. Toggle spread footing, strip footing, mat, piles, and slab on grade. Do not state a bearing pressure.

Use this on its own, or on a real site

This copies the Foundation teaching spec. Illustrative numbers stay illustrative. A standalone example has no site. Associating it with Orbit names the tiles and, when the point has an address, only that place's code card.

Standalone example. Scene: teaching-plan. No site tiles, and no local code.

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  • Soils. job-measured · job-measured
  • Spread footing. one form · illustrative
  • Strip footing. one form · illustrative
  • Mat. one form · illustrative
  • Piles. one form · illustrative
  • Slab on grade. one form · illustrative