Try to design Frost-Protected Shallow Foundations per SEI/ASCE 32-01. See
http://www.toolbase.org/PDF/DesignGuides/revisedFPSFguide.pdf for your info.
Martin
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From: Gary L. Hodgson and Assoc. [mailto:ghodgson@bellnet.ca]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 6:35 AM
To: SEAINT Mail List
Subject: Floating Slab for Residence
Fellow listers,
I hope you can help me. I have been asked by one of my regular
customers to design a slab-on-grade for a his proposed house. Most
(99%?) houses up here in the great white north have basements, so it is
unusual to have a sog for a house. Do you have any pointers, pitfalls
for me? What do you do for frost protection? Here (Niagara) we are
required to provide footing at least 4 feet deep. Thanks in advance,
Gary Hodgson
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