beautifulhills
Specifier/Regulator
- Jul 26, 2014
- 30
- We'd like to model the foundations for a 30 home hillside residential development in a software tool before getting into all the calculations and so on.
- Each of the 30 homes is at a different elevation, many are directly off a new road that goes up the hillside, with a switchback
- The foundations interact with parking beneath, retaining walls, and the road in a slightly different manner for each of the homes
- Fortuitously the development is in a relatively expensive part of northern California, so the economics work for this customization
A typical home on the development - the home sits above parking beneath. The back of the parking walls support the house. A side wall to the parking supports that part of the home. Concrete columns support other sides.
Anybody have ideas on which software to use to do the modelling? Of course, if it's then possible to use the file created in standard structural calculation software without too much re keying of data, it would be most useful.
Designer, Specifier (I don't regulate anything despite what my profile says)
