Yeah we gave the client multiple suggestions, from surcharging the site for consolidating the clay and helping compress the loose silty sands to stone columns to undercutting the footings ~ 5 feet and replacing with washed stone.
The amount of fill going on my site is 2.5 feet and should cause up to 1.5 inches of settlement. Column loadings are up to 132k and wall loadings are up to 7.2 klf, with bearing pressures of 2000 psf. Some of the elastic settlements I get from column loading are up to 3 inches. I want to...
