2202 100TH ST SW Geotech Report 2022-10-25

Subsurface Exploration, Geologic Hazard,and Stephens Everett Property Preliminary Geotechnical Engineering Report Everett, Washington Preliminary Design Recommendations of rock to provide a working surface during foundation construction. We recommend a 6-inch layer of crushed rock for this purpose. 11.1 Drainage Considerations Foundations should be provided with foundation drains. Drains should consist of rigid, perforated, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe surrounded by washed pea gravel. The drains should be constructed with sufficient gradient to allow gravity discharge away from the proposed building. Roof and surface runoff should not discharge into the footing drain system, but should be handled by a separate, rigid, tightline drain. In planning, exterior grades adjacent to walls should be sloped downward away from the proposed building to achieve surface drainage. 12.0 FLOOR SUPPORT Floor slabs can be supported on medium dense to dense native soils, on new structural fill placed above native sediments. Floor slabs should be cast atop a minimum of 4 inches of clean, washed, crushed rock or pea gravel to act as a capillary break. Areas of subgrade that are disturbed (loosened) during construction should be compacted to a non-yielding condition prior to placement of capillary break material. Floor slabs should also be protected from dampness by an impervious moisture barrier at least 10 mils thick. The moisture barrier should be placed between the capillary break material and the concrete slab. 13.0 FOUNDATION WALLS The following preliminary recommendations may be applied to conventional walls up to 8 feet tall. We should be allowed to offer situation-specific input for taller walls. All backfill behind foundation walls or around foundation units should be placed as per our recommendations for structural fill and as described in this section of the report. Horizontally backfilled walls, which are free to yield laterally at least 0.1 percent of their height, may be designed to resist lateral earth pressure represented by an equivalent fluid equal to 35 pounds per cubic foot (pcf). Fully restrained, horizontally backfilled, rigid walls that cannot yield should be designed for an equivalent fluid of 50 pcf. Walls with sloping backfill up to a maximum gradient of 2H:1V should be designed using an equivalent fluid of 55 pcf for yielding conditions or 75 pcf for fully restrained conditions. If parking areas are adjacent to walls, a surcharge equivalent to 2 feet of soil should be added to the wall height in determining lateral design forces. As required by the 2015 IBC, retaining wall design should include a seismic surcharge pressure in addition to the equivalent fluid pressures presented above. Considering the site soils and the March 29,2019 ASSOCIATED EARTH SCIENCES,INC. TG/ms-180567E001-2-Projects\20180567\KEIWP Page 16