I see building officials taking huge liability risks by offering soils
reports for specific quadrants. I guess if there is a known fact that
the soil condition is similar at each particular quadrants. Here in the
bay area, I see conditions differ from property to property. I have a
job where one site only required a regular continuous foundation system
while the property next door required piers and grade beams.
When I was working in Hawaii, I recalled a document that had a
collection of soils reports that had been done in the islands. If you
had a site that was near an area where there was an old soils report,
you can base your initial design on that. I do not know if that
document is still available for engineers in Hawaii.
Personally, spending the $2000 for a soils report is a small price to
pay for well designed foundation system.
My 2 cents.
Marlou
-----Original Message-----
From: sscholl2@juno.com [mailto:sscholl2@juno.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:43 PM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: Re: Responsiblity for local conditions
Dennis-
Burbank had (and hopefully still has) the City divided into 4 quadrants
and had soil tests done for each. They then provided the data for anyone
to use upon paying a small fee (less than $100 as I recall) to use the
data and to repay them for having the tests done. I believe this was
only for residential and small commercial projects.
It has never made much sense to me for an owner to have to pay about
$2000 for a soil test for a residential addition when one was done a few
months earlier at a site next door or a couple of houses away- and this
is what is required in some cities.
Stan Scholl, P.E.
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