Analyze Wall Design and Load (Surcharge)

this case I want you to look at the dead men what you see here is you see these dead men which extend clearly underneath the driveway we have more over here which extend beneath the garage when you get called in to analyze a site like this it's important that you don't just jump in and reach to conclusions or reach to assumptions because one party is hiring you you really have to be objective about the whole situation you have to step back and you have to look at all the details of it and imagine that it doesn't matter who's hiring you or what side of the fence you're on so the question that you should be asking is what does that mean why is that even important well when you build a retaining wall a retaining wall is built under three conditions one is no load the second is a surcharge and the third is a a retaining wall that will be holding up a slope now in this case this was probably built and I say probably I wasn't here when it was built but it was probably built looking at the dead men that are in it to withstand just a flat grade at the top after the fact the garage came into Play and play placed a search charge onto the retaining wall now how can you say after the fact well you can't shove a dead man like this underneath the garage this had to already be in place and then the garage was built so what happened is you have an old retaining