This Laminated Ferrocement Foundation Design provides an alternative to standard grade beam foundation design that may be better suited for many more circumstances and it can be a lower cost alternative for many. 

This foundation can be built on solid undisturbed ground that has not been leveled because it does not need to be screeded and special forms do not need to be built for sloping ground.  This lowers the eco impact by lowering the need for a builder to scrap away entire hillsides or cover over large areas of natural ground just to make a nice level pad for construction.  Interior floors can still be perfectly leveled after the supporting walls for a structure are in place. 

This design can be much less costly because it can be more easily executed by one or a few individuals trying this for the first time.  This is because the laminated ferrocement technique, using this mix design is very forgiving and will allow mistakes and provide an easy means for repairing, certain mistakes. Also this plate box beam can be built in little sections at a time because cold joints, areas where partially cured concrete comes in contact with wet cement, do not create a a weak area like it would when using a mix that shrinks a great deal more during curing.  Cold joints are ok in this technique, not just because the composite does not shrink like regular mortar does and thus bonds better where it connects to a seam that is already cured, but also because the layering of active tensile reinforcing mesh in this technique more than compensates for a weak bond between cured and wet composite.  The mesh reinforcing is superior to rebar in that it provides active tensile reinforcing where it is needed most in a way that rebar can only achieve when it is pre-stressed like in an expensive bridge beam building process.  Here the PVA fibers, high strength low-shrink composite all work together with the layers of expanded metal mesh reinforcing and 10 gauge steel reinforcing to create a tremendous amount of working/active tensile (isometric) reiforcing near the outside surface of the beam, where bending stresses always start when they do damage.  This active tensile reinforced beam can be built by one guy with hand tools so the cost savings advantage is very real and worth exploring further. 

This professionally engineered design will perform as well or better than a standard grade beam foundation design.  

  This thin plate ferrocement is also more neccessary for supporting Parabolic Stress-Skin structures. It is not because a standard grade beam would be inadequete because of different loading conditions caused by the system, box-beam plate system is needed to maintain a structural standard that is kept in the wall and roof shell.

Traditionally a concrete foundation should be a stronger more cohesive base but for a foundation to be a more cohesive and stronger part of the general wall medium of this system, it must be at least a continuation of the ferrocement tensile reinforced surface plats.

This wall and roof system is reinforced in a way that provides isometric reinforcing on the surface shells. That combined with the geometrically arranged tensile reinforcing through out the medium imparts a measurable cohesiveness that exceeds the RC grade beam counterpart in specific ways. The plate design can endure higher bending strains and the wing plate design provides a better moisture barrier.

The steel reinforcing is encased in very specific manner that will regulate how rust may develope and that provides a means of creating a limit for progressive rust so that the steel reinforcing achieves a stability that is not comprimised. Secondarily, the steel is protected from moisture with a high density mortar paste matrix that utilizes a special moisture blocking closed spherical cell aeration. This is likely to prevent any rust from developing on the steel reinforcing and if rust does develope the . The wing plate beam design exceeds the structural performance of several moisture penetration resistance and bend resistance standard reinforced concrete design. If this medium were to transition into a standard reinforce concrete grade beam it would signify a transition into a section of the structure that is weaker and more vulnerable to moisture damage when a RC grade beam usually signifies a stronger point that can not handle bending strains as well and cannot provide moisture protection as well as a beam design that would support