Concrete Foundations

The concrete foundation supports the steel building and resists the loads imposed by the building and site specific climatic load imposed on the building. In order to design a steel building foundation, the building engineers provide reactionary loading and anchor bolt requirements. This information, along with site specific geotechnical reports, will allow the foundation engineers to design the required supporting foundation. A typical pre-engineered steel building is built on one of two standard foundation designs.

Columns: Fixed-Base and Pinned-Based

A pinned based column design doesn’t transfer any moment, or bending, load into the supporting foundations. It is carried by the steel structural and transferred into the foundation as vertical and horizontal loads.

Anchor Bolts

In a pre-engineered steel building system, anchor bolts are what hold the steel structure to the concrete foundation.