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Soil preparation: Platform to withstand heavy loads

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TrustButVerify

Mechanical
Sep 27, 2023
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Hello,

In practice, is there so much difference budgeting/quoting to build a platform to withstand 10t/m2, or 100t/m2. I'm asking this since we awarded a subcontractor building a platform to withstand 20t/m2, and when the steel plate test was performed, in quite several points the results pointed out soil was able to withstand 100t/m2.

Another question will be: are those steel plate test ok? What's the reason we obtaining 100t/m2, since we only ask for 20t/m2? Is this a matter of the test, the design, or that subcontractor just provided more?

I'm not a Civil Engineer.

Have a nice week ahead


 
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Depends on the work required. If the soil needed to be replaced with fill, might as well replace it with good stuff. The initial cost of fill, good or poor isn't a lot, the transport cost is the same and compaction is the same. I'd use good stuff. You should probably be happy as a clam.

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