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When do you advise to use Raft Foundations?

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Question added by Mushreq Abdulmajeed , Senior Project Supervisor , Lagoon Spring Company
Date Posted: 2016/03/15
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ahmed mohy abd elkhaleq mghrby
by ahmed mohy abd elkhaleq mghrby , Senior consultant engineer , EHAF consulting engineers

we advice using raft for two main reasons : 

1- if the sumetion of isolated footing area >60% from the buildingtotal area 

2- if we discoverd that the type of soil may causing diffrential sittlement...because the raft is the best aidea to avoid diffrential sittlement

Ahmed Taha abdellah
by Ahmed Taha abdellah , Civil Site Manger , Elsewedy Electric T&D

When the total area of isolation footing exceed 60 % of the total area of the building area

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