Hi All,
I am working on a residential building in TX, and I have seen some samples showing that the piers are 12" diameter and just reinforced with 2-#6 long rebars and no ties were included there, the piers will be disconnected from the grade beams and using void boxes under the grade beams...
Hi Folks,
I am working on a project in Texas, low wind and low seismic, the soil is expansive soil and the soil engineer recommended the system to be grade beams and belled piers, the Architect and GC showed me a sample of another project and wanted to follow that one, the system was done as...
Hey Engineers,
I have a two story concrete building with wood trusses framing in the first story and concrete slab on the roof, unfortunately I cannot increase the column size in width and shall stick to 8", but I can increase the column length, currently I have concrete column 8x24, and the...
