I have an old school in Boston which has four stories of an 18" wide brick wall from the ground to the roof. At some point there was a full height, brick enclosure added to the outside face of the building (see photo). Naturally the school wants to remove only the first floor portion of the...
I have a project on a sloping lot where the rear foundation wall is about 6' higher than the front wall due to a sloping site. The ground level space is an unheated garage and the foundation guy is suggesting that the bottom of footing needs to be 4' below the INTERIOR/SLAB elevation which would...
I am a structural engineer in Boston and I have a client who didn't follow my Shallow Frost Protected Foundation Wall detail closely and now only has about 6" along the perimeter to embed the downturned slab at the perimeter. They did, however, add approx 18" of compacted crushed stone which is...
