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The isolated footing is one of the most popular, economical and  simplest type of foundation used world wide. An isolated footing is used support a single column. These are independent footings which are provided for each column. This types of footing used when-
  1. Columns are closely spaced 
  2. Load on footing are less
  3. The Safe bearing capacity of soil is high.

TYPES OF BOTTOM SLABS
An isolated footing essentially consist of a bottom slab.There are three types of bottom slabs as follows-
  1. Pad Footing
  2. Stepped Footing 
  3. Slopped Footing







DIFFERENT SHAPES IN PLAN
Isolated footing can have different shapes in plan, generally it depends up on the shape of cross-section of the column. Some of the popular shapes in the plan of the footing are-

  1. Square Footing 
  2. Rectangular Footing
  3. Slopped Footing







STEPS TO CONSTRUCT AN ISOLATED FOOTING
  1. Positioning footing location 
  2. Earth excavation 
  3. Preparing the base
  4. Making form-work
  5. Placing reinforcement 
  6. Proving cover block
  7. Placing column reinforcement 
  8. Pouring concrete
  9. Removing form-work
  10. Back filling

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