6.2.1 - (Strip) Schematic Foundation Details - Strip Footing

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required level

layer to make up
Put any additional

and then by impact)


Surface bed preparation

Precollapse sand (by water

50 – 75mm Blinding
Reinforced Strip Footing
compact to 93% Mod AASHTO
insitu soil to 150mm and
Rip or loosen the exposed

G6/G7 fill material compacted in layers of


150mm

G6 / G7 GRAVEL OR
SOILCRETE MADE – UP Load bearing brick
GROUND wall G6/G7 fill material compacted in layers of
If gravel is used as fill to make-up 150mm
ground compact the gravel in layers of
150mm
G6/G5 inert material – to prepare surface bed

250mm
Remove 150mm of top soil to spoil and replace with

50mm
0mm

Precollapsed SAND (by water and then by impact)


465mm
200mm

2775mm
300mm
Ground

Rip or loosen the exposed


(D)mm

D + 300mm
precollapsed insitu soil to 150mm
and compact to 93% Mod AASHTO
Proposed Schematic foundation details –

Over excavate by 250mm


and pre-collapse the sands
by about +-50mm to
D+300mm
Slightly moist dark brown
medium dense fine grained Slightly moist dark brown
voided potentially mottled cream white medium

Not to scale: for reference only


Slightly moist light brown to olive brown medium
collapsible fine grained
denseSAND rootlets. dense fine grained organic
REINFORCED COLUMN/PIER ON PAD footing on made-up ground

voided potentially collapsible SAND. Transported


Transported SAND with traces of calcrete
pebbles rootlets. Imported Fill

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