For a good building foundation construction, some requirements must be made. This helps foundation to provide stability and increase bearing capacity.

• Foundation base should be strong enough to reduce the unequal settlement of soil if imposed load is not distributed equally to the soil
• Foundations should be constructed in such a way that it can easily carry dead loads and imposed loads of the structure and transfer the loads to the soil.
• A good foundation should have a definite depth so that structure may not be damaged due to expansion or compression of soil volume beneath the foundation.
• Foundation should be strong and designed with factor of safety so that structure may not be damaged due to unexpected effects ;

If these requirements are lacking, including natural cause, failure may occur. All these are not clear to the artisans. These are what we take into consideration when dealing with foundations