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Its completely fine to have massive raft on piles. Make sure that you have checked your raft for beam shear and punching. The piles can be connected to raft in a number of ways. What kind of piles do you have? Reinforced concrete or steel? Thanks.

Assalam-o-alaikum! Dear colleagues! This forum is really a great platform for us, to share our knowledge and field experience with each other. Moreover, this forum can also help a lot in improving overall standard of technical know-how of our structural engineers, by providing them quality advice and guiding them to international standards of structural design and construction practices. IMO, this latter aspect is not only very important, but also our moral obligation as well as a national duty. But, this will be possible and practicable only, when more and more engineers join this forum, and contribute their knowledge and experience on regular basis. And, this is what this thread is meant for. However, we are probably missing an important aspect in our discussion, that can attract engineers to join and/or visit this forum more frequently. And, that is, replying to their queries early and more frequently. It is natural that a normal person is much more attracted to an early reply to his/her questions, rather than overall level of advice at a particular forum. On the other hand, no response to a query for a long time, will most probably disappoint the originator, resulting in lack of interest. What I am trying to emphasize is, that we (especially the moderators and senior/more experienced members) should NOT ONLY visit the forum regularly, BUT ALSO should reply the questions raised/queries made in various sections AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE. (I myself always try to act on this principle, in cases where I can help.) IMHO, this policy will not only attract more engineers, but will (later on) also build their confidence in this forum, as a major source of structural engineering knowledge and advice. Regards.

I am Ali Ahmed, working as lecturer in University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore. I have completed my MSc Structural Engineering from the same university. I was the topper of my BSc Session (2004) & won four gold medals. Along with the lecturer-ship I am also participating actively in different research projects being carried out in UET Lahore.