Can a raft slab be used for a home with a basement garage below?

Genuinely more complex — a basement garage changes the whole foundation strategy, since you’re now dealing with retaining structure and a suspended or ground-level slab above it, rather than a standard raft directly on grade.

Your engineer treats this as an integrated basement-and-foundation design exercise, not simply a raft slab with an added basement underneath.

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