Sir, location is India..no seismic activity was reported. Adopting pile is uneconomical. And also there was a 1 storied building in the same site which was demolished some 5 years ago. All surrounding plots are covered houses built in random rubble/ column-tie beam footing. Can anybody suggest...
Hello everyone, A two storied house having ground floor area 2900 square feet is being built on a weak soil strata. From the soil testing data, it was observed that up to a depth of 2m, the soil is fine sand with standard penetration test, N value=4. 2m-2.7m fine sand with N = 2. 2.7m-4.5m...