A Review of Underpinning of Various Structures

Existing buildings or especially monuments and historical buildings sometimes experience ongoing settlement or face the prospect of excessive settlement in the future if a change of building use is required and foundation loadings increase, or due to environmental problems and natural activities. Underpinning method is used for strengthen the support system or foundation of structure. Due to lack of land, increasing population, increasing loading, settlements of buildings due to various reasons and raising number of vehicle demand it is not easy to provide parking place for parking. So it is necessary to provide parking place below the building. In this paper we have focus on various types of underpinning, advantages, Disadvantages, and case study related to applications of various structures.