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Title: Revised Builder's Guide to Frost Protected Shallow Foundations
Author: NAHB Research Center, 2004
File: Free Book, PDF 737 KB, 40 pages
Audience: Written for builders, designers, and homeowners with prior knowledge of foundation design.

Review
This text provides a complete description and design guide for frost protected shallow foundations (FPSF). Included are simplified and detailed design methods for both heated and unheated buildings. With this book you can design a FPSF foundation system, although not including structural and soils issues.

Issues covered include:

• background, description and issues concerning FPSF
• applications and limitations
• insulation selection
• simplified design method for heated & unheated buildings
• detailed design method for heated & unheated buildings
• construction methods for FPSF in various conditions
• Q&A section
  

Detail drawings include:

• Side by side section of FPSF & conventional foundation
• frost penetration diagram
• heat flow diagrams for FPSF foundation wall
• air freezing index map
• insulation location diagrams & design diagrams in plan & detail form
• details for FPSF in various conditions

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