Site Grading and Prep
Site Grading and Prep
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Is the IBC the best source to learn how to build up your structural fill and dig out grade beams? The owner of the company wants this done but none of my superiors are used to engineering buildings.






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The IBC is generally not (does not offer) a good college/professional course in Soil Mechanics or Foundation Design. If your superiors aren’t used to, and good at, designing and engineering buildings, they probably shouldn’t be engineering foundations either. You should get some competent GeoTech help on this. Why do you need a structural fill, how deep? What existing soil materials should be removed, prior to the filling operation, to make the structural fill competent? How do place and compact and test the fill? What fill material should you use? If it is their building, and they will assume full responsibility for the final results, who cares? They saved a few bucks today. I’m not suggesting that is good Structural Engineering or a practical/wise approach to the problem, but that seems to be the way many people think these days.
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Dave
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Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods 6th Edition, Edward Allen and Joseph Iano
Principles and Practices of Commercial Construction, 9th Edition, Woods, Andres and Smith
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