<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><table-reference author="Kieran O'Donnell" dateTime="2021-02-24T13:40:23" graph="None" id="_021a69d7-d8d0-4dac-97d2-5e4c0a3e3b59" type="insert"><num>4.2.15b</num><title id="_2f9674e3-2c03-4c8e-89ab-52df04779564">Dimensions and reinforcement for strip footing systems for Class S sites</title><table id="_dc721669-e09e-4548-89a4-ea1d1c7790cc" keycol="1"><tgroup cols="4"><colspec colname="001" colnum="1" colwidth="108.00*"/><colspec colname="002" colnum="2" colwidth="108.00*"/><colspec colname="003" colnum="3" colwidth="108.00*"/><colspec colname="004" colnum="4" 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="_3688d0bd-698d-4148-84d9-8c2487bd5305" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">Clad frame</xref></entry><entry>400</entry><entry>300</entry><entry>3–L8TM</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="_6576601c-07f3-4e82-898f-475ded538262" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">Articulated masonry</xref> veneer</entry><entry>400</entry><entry>300</entry><entry>3–L8TM</entry></row><row><entry>Masonry veneer</entry><entry>400</entry><entry>300</entry><entry>3–L8TM</entry></row><row><entry>Articulated full masonry</entry><entry>400</entry><entry>400</entry><entry>4–L11TM</entry></row><row><entry>Full masonry</entry><entry>500</entry><entry>400</entry><entry>4–L11TM</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table><desc-note id="_f40ae178-5ca5-4481-820f-a9ac57da15f6"><ol outputclass="numbered"><li id="_768a1813-321a-4ebd-8651-88899fbd9db0">All masonry walls must be supported on strip footings.</li><li id="_c727bb0b-c888-4f1e-83f7-fb8ac2c6bd33">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="_d0b36ddd-15d6-4bbe-8ef9-3060c6f9d0c4">Infill floors may be concrete slabs, brick paving, stone flags or compacted and stabilised earth. For concrete slab infill panels, mesh may be <xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1432_4.0.0.xml#_af6fde9f-147d-4782-8b85-42044e80fd42" id="_b7df72a9-b25d-4b42-814c-16e118235344" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">required</xref> to control shrinkage in slab panels and around openings or restrained regions. Concrete infill slabs must use a minimum of SL62 mesh to control shrinkage (see also <xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1050_0.17.0.xml#_07249b3f-17ce-4870-8c94-6911dc5338dc" id="_86285be9-07af-4c86-8c51-eae2d33db28f" referencetype="Text" scope="local" synctargettext="false" type="ncc-clause">4.2.19</xref>).</li><li id="_d8983b1f-7b59-441e-be0a-e58060c6e22e">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="_1c213ca0-194f-49d0-bc38-7863a195baba" 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="_d3bf3e1c-ec74-4843-97d1-c5094c2068ea" 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="_b52f7930-3653-4bbf-8849-7c50871d9098">The measurement of D<sub xmlns:inv="urn:xpressauthor:xpressdocument" id="_f475baa3-b511-4980-a29a-eca83455aff5" inv:access="external">f</sub> is greater or equal to D plus 75 mm.</li><li id="_7a2bafa4-1081-422d-85ac-4ba199982c33">Alternative reinforcing sizes must comply with AS 2870.</li></ol></desc-note></table-reference>