BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – BUILDER DRAWINGS – CROSS-SECTIONS

Foundations For Residential Building Construction, Footing & Pier

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This project is a major remodeling in colonial house designs, including house additions to the front and back of the existing structure, major house renovations to the interior design spaces, and possibly, even a two-story attached garage in the distant, distant future.  You can see other colonial home building design plans of this project in - 

The Garrison Colonial's footings and piers are foundations for building construction to be structured in a certain manner, according to the engineer who certified the durability of the planned-on build out's foundation.  (Interestingly, this project really did not need a structural engineer, except that the local building authority said that it needed a structural engineer.  The specs for this structure were already presented in the local building code, but were, indeed, technical specs requiring some building experience and expertise.  The local building authority lacked either the experience or the expertise or both.  So the client coughed up $800 to get plans he could have drawn himself, and thereafter, have presented them to the building authorities who could not have understood them.  From the structural engineer's own lips, "This is a total waste of my time and your clients' money.")

This engineered structure is internal to the footing and piers; almost all the engineering is buried in concrete once each footing and pier is poured.  So, in order to direct the foundation contractor's course of action, a cross-section of the footing and pier are drawn to the engineer's specifications.  It looks like this, to follow.

Cross-section with Notes, footing and pier.

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