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Originally Posted by TheRitsman
From my understanding of engineering, the piles driven into the bedrock are what give the building stability, not the basement. Generally they put parking and other things underground to save space and since they are digging anyway.
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It's the size of the footings that matter not so much the depth of them. If you look at some of the skyscrapers in toronto that are in like the 50-60 stories their foundations are often only about 2 stories deep.