1993 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Foundations
Authors : Lee How Son, George C. S. Yuen
Published in: Building Maintenance Technology
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The most expensive building repair bills are often incurred with foundation failures. Where foundations are built on rock, there is very little chance of failure, provided that the rock is sound and solid. But because most buildings have to be built on other soils, which include materials of various origins, some movement and settlement must be expected.