Thus provided the strip and spread footings are at least 1.5 and 2.5 m wide, respectively, the
allowable bearing capacity is equal to 24 kPa (500 psf) for the strip footings and 32 kPa (670 psf)
for the spread footings. These allowable bearing pressures would be used to determine the size of the
footings based on the anticipated dead, live, and seismic loads