Abstract:
The Victory Village project is located in Fairfax, CA within a broad southwest trending valley. The residential structure varies from two to three stories throughout the footprint. The ground floor of the building steps down the valley with three different finished floor elevations, the lower level, main level and upper level, trending with the sloping stratigraphy of the site. The timber structure is scheduled to be constructed on a bilaterally reinforced mat foundation approximately 1-ft thick.
The site soil profile consists of three to thirty-two feet of fill, colluvium/ alluvium (slope wash) overlying bedrock. The highest ground water table encountered during the explorations was at a depth of five feet. The project geotechnical investigation and recommendation report identifies the fill and upper colluvium/alluvium as weak and compressible with a significant portion of interbedded sandy deposits susceptible to liquefaction and cyclic strength loss. The report estimates excessive