Beams on muckle concrete pads?

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Hello all new to chatting online however im hoping to find someone who may have prior experience.

Am a self employed building contractor in Fife tackling mainly renovations and domestic extensions. .

An architect I work with closely has ambitions to build a one bedder fancy smart property at top of his garden, not far from coast. Steep site, after scraping off the top, your down to rock.

Site is in a built up area, no evidence of couple of hundred years old properties sliding toward the sea, reckon all is very stable.

Building is approx 9mx7m. Difference in ground level over 9m, approx 2.4m.

My thoughts on this (after working in nz and seeing how often they build on pilings) are, could we, instead of spending weeks hooking out rock from a nasty wee site to pour stripfounds, do this.

Have a mini digger with pecker knock out a hole in each corner to fill with a cube (or 2) of concrete. Do same in midpoint of 9m span.

Have a decent sized usb (galvanized) spanning over pads, with appropriate sized block or steel columns to make up for slope.

Span USB in opposite direction into welded fin plates to tie all. And then go ahead and build off these beams.

Have meeting with engineer, sometimes find can be a bit unambitious however and lean back on the usual solution no matter what the cost /hassle implications may be, (I acknowledge, the conventional may the way fwd.

Have googled and not found any evidence of this done in scotland, just wondering if anyone has, or similar.

Look fwd to responses.

Many thanks.

Mac

 

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Hello all new to chatting online however im hoping to find someone who may have prior experience.

Am a self employed building contractor in Fife tackling mainly renovations and domestic extensions. .

An architect I work with closely has ambitions to build a one bedder fancy smart property at top of his garden, not far from coast. Steep site, after scraping off the top, your down to rock.

Site is in a built up area, no evidence of couple of hundred years old properties sliding toward the sea, reckon all is very stable.

Building is approx 9mx7m. Difference in ground level over 9m, approx 2.4m.

My thoughts on this (after working in nz and seeing how often they build on pilings) are, could we, instead of spending weeks hooking out rock from a nasty wee site to pour stripfounds, do this.

Have a mini digger with pecker knock out a hole in each corner to fill with a cube (or 2) of concrete. Do same in midpoint of 9m span.

Have a decent sized usb (galvanized) spanning over pads, with appropriate sized block or steel columns to make up for slope.

Span USB in opposite direction into welded fin plates to tie all. And then go ahead and build off these beams.

Have meeting with engineer, sometimes find can be a bit unambitious however and lean back on the usual solution no matter what the cost /hassle implications may be, (I acknowledge, the conventional may the way fwd.

Have googled and not found any evidence of this done in scotland, just wondering if anyone has, or similar.

Look fwd to responses.

Many thanks.

Mac

On the coast, the steel beams would need sealing (concreting) in.