One might expect a book titled
Design and Repair of Residential and
Light Commercial Foundations to be a
practical manual on how to design
light foundations, and repair those
that have failed. However, a quick
scan of the back cover gives a better
inkling of what you'll find in the
contents, which include soil engineering,
site preparation, drainage,
and "basic" foundation design for
structural and "geotechnical" engineers.
The author's tone is academic
and scholarly, and I would think
that technical readers or students
would get the most out of this volume.
The scope of the text is also not
as broad as the title suggests. The
author mainly focuses on two specific
foundation types (pier-and-beam
and slabs) and on the