Layout & Footings

The main function of a footing is:

• Decrease the load on the concrete walls

• Spread the load over a greater area

• Concentrate the load at one point

• Increase lateral support for backfilling

To layout a building on site you must have a set point of elevation on a plot plan, this starting point is called:

• Bench mark

• Station grade

• Grade line

• Building setback

Batter boards should be kept back a minimum of _____ from the foundation corner pins.

• 0'-0"

• 1'-0"

• 4'-0"

• 10'-0"

Footings should be ______ "wide" as a rule of thumb

• Same width as the wall

• Twice the width of the wall

• 1/2 thickness of the wall

• Doesn't matter

All horizontal and vertical joints in concrete should be held together using:

• Concrete glue

• Keys

• Spading

• Slumping

The horizontal piece of a batter board is called:

• Lintel

• Ledger

• Kerf

• Bolester

When footing excavation is too deep, it should be filled with:

• Clay

• Aggregate

• Rock

• Concrete

A concrete support that is independent of the main foundation is called a:

• Pier

• Buttress

• Pilaster

• Step footing

Setback is the distance

• From boundary line to front of the building

• From center of road to front of building

• Vertically between contour lines

• From sidewalk to building line

The angle of _____ is the slope an excavated bank maintains without sliding.

• Repose

• Stability

• Strength

• Sloping