Multitasking suggests you are doing two things at once. The human brain is not capable of two thoughts at once. In fact we are ‘time slicing’ which means we are switching back and forth between two tasks. This has been demonstrated to decrease individual productivity.
The same is true of a single microprocessor.
Probably true. But I think an exception would be if one of the things you are doing, you’ve been doing for a long time. I’ve been on heavy equipment for 50 years. I often daydream on a machine and at the end of the day, I can’t believe how much I got done. I’m not conscious of it at all.
Looks like fun. Who doesn’t enjoy moving dirt around?
Actually you should not be compacting the soil around a foundation until the floor system is installed, the floor system helps keep the foundation walls straight when compacting.
The floor is a concrete slab that goes on top of the compacted soil.
I believe Scott is talking about the floor joists or trusses that will brace the tops of the walls from being pushed inward. Critical for a CMU block foundation, still recommended for poured concrete walls, but it depends on the design and how deep the walls go under grade, soil type, wall thickness, reinforcement, backfill material, and more. Installing the floor system before full backfill/compaction is safer and is the preferred method for most builders and inspectors.
There are no floor joists. We’re pouring a slab on top of the compacted soil when we get it up to the top of the foundation. We compact both sides of the foundation walls and bring them up at the same time to even the pressure on both sides of the walls.
What is it for? A loading dock?
Just a tall garage for heavy equipment and big tractors. One of the bays has a gravel floor (not a concrete slab) as I’m bringing in my excavator: Excavator We Refurbished
120’ long x 44’ wide x 23’ tall.
Not in Colorado.
Floating interior slab. Typical method for a building of this type. Drilled piers and grade beam foundation. Also very common where expansive soils are found here.
I built a shop back in the 90"s where we embedded railroad track into the slab for an excavator. The top crown of the tracks were left exposed above the slab so the steel tracks didn’t touch the concrete. Worked out pretty slick.
