It's key that the concrete be level. Drive vertical pieces of reinforcing steel into the soil every 4 feet in the center of the footing as leveling reference points.

Where the foundation dimension is less than 8 ft, .greater of +/-2% of specified dimension or 1/2 in.

NRMCA 100 provides a simplified approach to the design of concrete footings, foundation walls and above-grade walls, both load bearing and non-load bearing, intended primarily for use in detached ...

County officials said Friday that Sverdrup Corp., the same engineers partly responsible for a cracked beam in the civic center in 1981, failed to design adequate supports to handle some steel ...