PRE-ENGINEERED BUILDING FOUNDATION
PRE-ENGINEERED BUILDING FOUNDATION
(OP)
I have a pre-engineered building foundation I am designing. There will be a turndown around the perimeter. This building has an 8" cmu full height wall in some places. In the past i have specified an individual spread footing below the turndown to support the CMU. The contractor has requested the turndown be designed with a ledge to receive the cmu instead of putting in a strip footing below. I can design the footing to support this load, but I was wandering if anyone has had any problems with a foundation like this that I may not be accounting for?





RE: PRE-ENGINEERED BUILDING FOUNDATION
Technically, the CMU wall is probably not a bearing wall, but I would treat it as such due to it's own dead load.
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
RE: PRE-ENGINEERED BUILDING FOUNDATION
DaveAtkins
RE: PRE-ENGINEERED BUILDING FOUNDATION