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An integrated floating foundation system makes your site simple to prepare.

The solution was to build a floating foundation.

Homes have been built in the heart of Toronto, on floating foundations in the St.

The floating foundation - the floor sits on spongy plastic supports, which muffle vibrations - allows for almost complete soundproofing.

WindFloat is a floating foundation for offshore wind turbines designed and patented by Principle Power.

Torsten Thomas: Solutions for floating foundations.

The Floating Foundation of Photography was a New York photography exhibition space, meeting place and teaching center.

The system, known as the WindFloat, consists of a semi-submerssible type floating foundation, a conventional catenary mooring, and the wind turbine.

The home itself is built using a floating foundation that is believed to have saved it from total collapse in the 1906 earthquake and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

The Monadnock rests on the floating foundation system invented by Root for the Montauk Building that revolutionized the way tall buildings were built on Chicago's spongy soil.

And then there are a diminishing series of smaller shocks as the building rocks back and forth on its massive floating foundation, a swaying that continues long after the actual earthquake is over.

WindFloat, conceived by Marine Innovation & Technology and owned by Principle Power, is a patent pending floating foundation for offshore wind turbines with a simple and elegant design.

"Water is a workable building layer or a floating foundation and if you turn water into space, which is a dramatic change of mindset, there's a whole new world of possibilities," Olthuis told Reuters.

"It is just a floating foundation, mostly made of concrete and foam which is quite stable, heavy, and goes up and down with waves and up and down with the sea level," he said.

For a floating raft foundation, or floating foundation, the foundation has a volume such that, were that volume filled with soil, it would be equal in weight to the total weight of the structure.

Scale modeling and computer modeling attempt to predict the behavior of large-scale wind turbines in order to avoid costly failures and to expand the use of offshore wind power from fixed to floating foundations.

And I would like to commend those who provided the floating foundation for Project SHEBA -- the captains and crews who took the researchers north, and provided the transportation and necessary equipment.

For partial basements in which excavation is approximately 4 feet deep, the weight of soil removed more nearly equals the weight of the structure and the principle of a "floating foundation", as described in CBD 81, might be employed.

The catalog of the exhibition, Taking a Different Tack: Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of Photography ISBN 978-0-615-25833-1, includes many images of the photographers who met there and the houseboat itself.

"The development of floating foundations for wind turbines is a pre-requisite to the development of offshore wind farms worldwide, as areas in which the sea bed is less than 50 m deep are scarce and fixed structures in deeper waters are economically not feasible.

In 2009 the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz mounted a retrospective exhibition about the Floating Foundation, its influences and the photographers who were part of what happened there.

When the soil is so soft that not even friction piles will support the building load, the final option is the use of a floating foundation, making the building like a boat that obeys Archimedes' principle; it is buoyed up by the weight of the earth displaced in creating the foundation.