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What is footing and what is foundation?

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Question added by mamoon NSOUR , Resident Engineer , Rula Sunna Engineering office
Date Posted: 2016/02/03
Saurabh Sagar
by Saurabh Sagar , civil engineer , rites ltd

A Foundation can be deep as well as shallow of various sizes, shape and depth. but footing is only comes under shallow A footing is a foundation unit constructed in brick work, masonry or concrete under the base of a wall or a column for the purpose of distributing the load over a large area. A footing or a shallow foundation is placed immediately below the lowest part of the superstructure.

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