Building Construction and Superintendence, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Building Construction and Superintendence, Vol. 2 Foundations on Firm Soils Staking Out the Building. Foundations - light buildings - nature of soils, bearing power of soils, examples of actual loads, methods of testing. Designing the Foundations, proportioning the footings, examples, centre of pressure to coincide with. Centre of base. Superintendence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.