Because a subway runs under the lot, the usual foundation for a pole would not work: freestanding signs can require more complicated foundations than buildings.
A modified post and beam will work with pier, perimeter wall, and slab; even better is a pole foundation, where your posts are embedded deep in the ground (about 4'), and transfer the full weight of the building directly underground.
You don't have to build a foundation for a pole barn, but it is vital that your posts are stable so that even extreme weather conditions and accidents won't move them.
The deck varies from about 18 to 24 inches thick, which is not deep enough to provide a foundation for traffic signal poles without breaking through the ceiling of the rail tunnel.
Her house was very large, and, like virtually all the houses closest to the ocean, it stood on what looked like a grove of buried telephone poles: a foundation made of wooden piles, whose purpose is to allow storm surges to pass under the habitable spaces.
Once Con Ed had completed their work, we went back to the location, removed the light pole, reworked the foundation, removed an obstruction and replaced the light pole.
The tepee is a conical tent, its foundation being either three or four poles; other poles placed around these formed a roughly circular base.
That is what happened on Saturday afternoon, when he took pole position, the foundation for his victory.
It also describes the pole tower and foundation design, large-section conductor selection, and R&D conditions of anti-dancing and large-tonnage insulators and composite insulators.
The previous two deaths at the pole involved accidents, a foundation spokesman said.
