Epr- Thanks for your comments. Will be careful about tying in the walls that allows for some increment of vertical differential movement. This will probably also help another concern I have which is shrinkage in the new block. Thanks.
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My office is underpinning a c.i.p. concrete column spread footing and adjacent continuous concrete wall footing with concrete, placed in phases. Comments in a previous thread on this topic were very useful but I have an additional question.
In plan, the column footing to be underpinned...
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I am designing a cmu elevator rower to be added to the exterior of an existing masonry building as a "bump-out". The elevator shaft is basically a hollow masonry tube, extending three floors up. Wind, seismic and elevator rail loads parallel to the existing wall that I am bumping out...
