Structural Engineers
Are waffle slabs able to satisfactorily protect Australian homes from slab heave and foundation movement?
This question is for you, structural engineers and geotechnical engineers and foundation specialists of Australia.
If you are applying AS2870 to waffle slab designs please comment below. We want to hear from you.
Here’s a list of things that make houses move and crack. How many of these can you identify in your house:
The number one secret volume housebuilders don’t want you to know is that you are entitled to a certain standard of construction and finish in your home.
So picture this. You design and build your dream house with a volume builder. It all goes fairly smoothly. You move in. Three months later you see a crack or two in the walls.
“How bad does a crack have to be before it is a problem?”, you wonder.
Join senior structural engineer, Matt Cornell from Cornell Engineers, as he checks a set of drawings for a single storey concrete masonry (Besser block) home to be built in a cyclone region.
He goes through the process of checking a set of structural engineering drawings with some tips for checking and good construction.