This project is an analysis and design foundations ofTHE OPTICAL AND NURSING FACULTY , which is in Nablus city , al-jneed street , in al-najah university .
The building contains six stories and the roof , three of this stories are in basement . the area of each story is about 1200 m2 .
The design of foundation will be done by using SAP program , first we analyze the building to find the reaction on each footing then we design the foundation .
The project is distributed in two semester , the first semester includes chapter one , chapter two and chapter three . and the second semester includes chapter four and chapter five .
The project at all contains five chapters ; chapter two is a review of foundation , it talks about types of footing and bearing capacity .
Chapter three presents structural analysis of the proposed optical and nursing faculty . SAP 2000 is used to analyze the structural part of the project . loads are tabulated and presented in this project .
Chapter four summaries the soil properties of the proposed project site . It talks about the site bearing capacity , settlements and the other expected geotechnical problems .
Geotechnical and structural design of the foundation system suggested is in Chapter five . It includes the design of isolated footing and mat foundation .