{"id":149,"date":"2010-12-19T21:56:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T21:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2010-12-19T21:56:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T21:56:29","slug":"stupid-engineering-question-about-foundation-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Engineering question about foundation design&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by madaznfootballer<\/i>: Stupid Engineering question about foundation design&#8230;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>in foundation design where I have to use continuous footing, is that adequate enough to have just continuous footings with rebar around the all the walls of a 2 story commercial structure&#8230;or am i missing some other necessary components (i.e. slab on grade, spread footings, etc&#8230;)&#8230;.sorry i&#8217;m new at this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by jay13178<\/i><br \/>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with a continuous footing around a 2 story structure. If you have columns inside you&#8217;ll need pads for those as well of course. A slab on grade would work also, as long as you&#8217;re not in an area that freezes. I don&#8217;t know what your exterior walls are like, but if they&#8217;re light, like metal siding, you could even just attach them to columns and use spread footers at the columns. I assume though that it&#8217;s probably the typical masonry facade with a wood or steel stud wall making up the real structure. I would probably go with the strip footer like you indicated, for simplicity and low cost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Give your answer to this question below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by madaznfootballer: Stupid Engineering question about foundation design&#8230;? in foundation design where I have to use continuous footing, is that adequate enough to have just continuous footings with rebar around the all the walls of a 2 story commercial structure&#8230;or am i missing some other necessary components (i.e. slab on grade, spread footings, etc&#8230;)&#8230;.sorry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[56,11,90,496,495,19],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-design","tag-about","tag-design","tag-engineering","tag-foundation","tag-question","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}