Steel building foundation questions

[snydes]

Hello everyone! I need an education on foundations for an all steel/steel truss type building. What is the standard if there is such a thing? I was initially figuring on not being able to do the floor right away, but now it might be a possibility. My one main concern is that the area that I had excavated for the building took several feet of fill at the one corner of the building (where the building would be), so that needs to be taken into consideration.

Advise/suggestions?

Thank you,
Steve

 

[Charles (in GA)]

The concrete slab literally holds the building down to keep it from blowing away. If you want to do a dirt floor, you will need DEEP piers to secure the columns to. If you do the slab in the beginning, you most likely will not need near as much pier (depending on soil and local codes) and the entire slab. poured as a monlith will serve to anchor the building.

Charles

 

[snydes]

Alright. At first I was going to hold off on the floor for financial reasons, but it sounds like doing it that way would be more trouble than it's worth.

 

[W-Cummins]

Alright. At first I was going to hold off on the floor for financial reasons, but it sounds like doing it that way would be more trouble than it's worth.

It might not be, but it's nice to have a floor! Call your local building board and ask them about the requirements for a foundation ( be sure to tell them that it's a red iron building as they have point loads that a conventional framed building dose not have). If you live in an area that freezes, I bet that they will not let you use one of the "southern foundations" with out a footer, frost wall, and piers for the attachment of the main steel frames to. So if that's the case you can do the foundation and errect the building and pour the floors later. Check out my build pictures in the link below to see what they made me do in frost land

 

[snydes]

I can't get the link to work! I meant that it sounds like it would be more work to do the floor later. I'm real green in this area, so any advise is appreciated. Is your building a red iron building?

Steve

 

[W-Cummins]

Yes it's a red iron building and I poured the floor in sections and it is not much more work to do it that way but I would have liked to do it all at one time ( the floor as then there wouldn't be any through joints) (I had to pour the footings and walls and piers before the floor)

ok I think that the link below now works.. try it out, if not it's under My shop AKA the obsession in the garage gallery

William

 

[snydes]

Wow!! You have my respect, awesome job. People who have the knowledge, skill, and motivation to complete a job like that are few and far between. Would you mind much answering some of the questions that I'm sure I will have come up during my build? My 40'x60'x16' will be arriving around August. I went with the 16' high for the same reason you did, I'd like that 2nd floor at some point. How wide was that frost wall?

Great pics and information, very useful.

Thanks,
Steve

 

[W-Cummins]

Wow!! You have my respect, awesome job. People who have the knowledge, skill, and motivation to complete a job like that are few and far between. Would you mind much answering some of the questions that I'm sure I will have come up during my build? My 40'x60'x16' will be arriving around August. I went with the 16' high for the same reason you did, I'd like that 2nd floor at some point. How wide was that frost wall?

Great pics and information, very useful.

Thanks,
Steve

Thanks

Sure ask away! The frost wall is 8" wide.

William...

 

[snydes]

You asked for it