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Thanks for the ferro-cement suggetion. I will check it out.

Hello, I have to design a polyhedron made from reinforced concrete that has an odd shape designed by the architect. It has a standalone structure that will be cast inside an existing masonry building. My concern is that this type of structure cannnot properly carry the loads down to the...

Thank you very much. I did not connect the continous footing with the isolated one. I will put polystyrene or something similar between the slab and the continous footing on top of the isolated one. Thank you again for the advice.

Hello, So no suggestion whatsoever?

I have attached th reinforcements too. https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=f62175fa-4352-4a73-bd29-fc2a2af23a8b&file=Overlap_continous_footing_reinforcement.pdf...

Yes there are pretty big loads, about 4000 kN axial load. The chief engineer suggested this solution and now I started having doubts about the solution. I think it was because the existing structure is already settled on the ground and the new structure has bigger loads. The ground conditions...

Hello, I have a problem regarding the solution for the extension of a 4 story building. The new columns are very close to the existing columns and the foundations overlap according to the drawing. The new foundation is a continous footing that is mounted over the existing footing. The...

Thank you very much for the reply. I have done the checks on both tension and compression. Have a nice day!

Hello, I have to design a concrete frame building that has one frame with two significat different spans, one of 9 meteres and one just 2.7 meters. My problem is that when I check the columns at lateral forces (seismic combination) in X direction one column has compression axial force and the...