As I described in ICF Home Project With Tall Basement Walls in Milford Michigan ANAND Enterprises Project RedW1yae-149, for this ICF home project with tall basement walls in Milford Michigan on a sloping terrain, we designed the tall ICF walls with exterior buttresses (pilasters). The house was originally designed with cast-in-place concrete (poured concrete) walls. The basement has a Sports court that houses a Basket Ball court.

The footings for a cast-in-place concrete had been installed. After the construction of the footings, the owner decided to switch from the cast-in-place concrete basement walls to ICF. Also the height of the Basement was increased.

In the following, I have provided a design for the addition to the footings that had already been installed to incorporate buttresses (pilasters) on the exterior face of the walls ...






ANAND Enterprises project RedW1yae-149 -- Design For ICF Home Project With Tall Basement Walls in Milford Michigan

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