<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><table-reference author="Kieran O'Donnell" dateTime="2021-02-24T13:40:42" graph="None" id="_f54887b7-bb46-45d2-a364-a7ee9b418ad2" type="insert"><num>4.2.15c</num><title id="_f5ba7800-62db-4df7-bcb5-68caca1fe988">Dimensions and reinforcement for strip footing systems for Class M sites</title><table id="_b8f973c5-cf4e-45b8-bec9-007afce4b15c" keycol="1"><tgroup cols="4"><colspec colname="002" colnum="2" colwidth="108.00*"/><colspec colname="003" colnum="3" colwidth="108.00*"/><colspec colname="004" colnum="4" colwidth="108.00*"/><colspec colname="005" colnum="5" colwidth="108.00*"/><thead><row><entry>Type of construction</entry><entry>D (mm)</entry><entry>B (mm)</entry><entry>Reinforcement (top and bottom)</entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry><xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1220_0.6.0.xml#_80de9a18-766e-4b0d-a65d-b3873d72f4b2" id="_fecb0e88-7619-4776-9dd3-4095f7bdcf83" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">Clad frame</xref></entry><entry>400</entry><entry>300</entry><entry>3-L11TM</entry></row><row><entry><xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1194_0.6.0.xml#_70407bc9-3de1-449e-828f-62763926b912" id="_81355d2c-6904-45fa-b4b2-3ea1ff28bb65" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">Articulated masonry</xref> veneer</entry><entry>450</entry><entry>300</entry><entry>3-L11TM</entry></row><row><entry>Masonry veneer</entry><entry>500</entry><entry>300</entry><entry>3-L12TM</entry></row><row><entry>Articulated full masonry</entry><entry>600</entry><entry>400</entry><entry>4-L12TM</entry></row><row><entry>Full masonry</entry><entry>900 <sup id="_b369d5e7-0ed3-44aa-b17b-4e5cd234b48e">Note 2</sup></entry><entry>400</entry><entry>4-L12TM</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table><desc-note id="_d3da254a-4e1f-4bd7-b5b9-64156e507a2f"><ol outputclass="numbered"><li id="_e0f8ea96-bb13-4d7e-addd-844af10f2777">All masonry walls must be supported on strip footings.</li><li id="_0e36b186-feb5-4c6e-8775-e97dcfbd7911">For beams 700 mm or deeper, as specified in the table above, internal footings must be provided at no more than 6 m centres and at re-entrant corners to continue footings to the opposite external footing. Internal strip footings must be of the same proportions as the external footings and run from external footing to external footing. ‘Side slip joints’ consisting of a double layer of polyethylene must be provided at the sides of the footing only.</li><li id="_b4b47b8c-6aa5-4591-ab1f-26a3e7ae9e7d">Infill floors must only be used for Class A and S sites.</li><li id="_c73efaad-bbb7-4d67-8e72-62196af9780d">Where footings are wider than the specified width, an extra bottom bar or equivalent of the same bar size is <xref xmlns:inv="urn:xpressauthor:xpressdocument" format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1432_4.0.0.xml#_af6fde9f-147d-4782-8b85-42044e80fd42" id="_30d889f5-d7e7-4c2b-9580-6db6cffdbae6" inv:access="external" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">required</xref> for each 100 mm additional width. If strip footings deeper than those <xref xmlns:inv="urn:xpressauthor:xpressdocument" format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1432_4.0.0.xml#_af6fde9f-147d-4782-8b85-42044e80fd42" id="_8bb7cd6f-0b64-4c07-bdb3-f02ab5472abf" inv:access="external" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">required</xref> are used, the reinforcement must be increased to match that specified for the deepened proportions.</li><li id="_20294715-2146-4984-8efd-54ff532f7af5">The measurement of D<sub xmlns:inv="urn:xpressauthor:xpressdocument" id="_346df2bf-a37e-4d0a-b625-f5eae9261977" inv:access="external">f</sub> is greater or equal to D plus 75 mm.</li><li id="_aaeda49e-d3e5-4cfa-b677-eac5ec63728e">Alternative reinforcing sizes must comply with AS 2870.</li><li id="_f095a268-104a-44c9-90fd-2a51003e2722">For Class M articulated full masonry and full masonry, internal strip footings must be of the same proportions as the external footing and run from external footing to external footing.</li></ol></desc-note></table-reference>