Civil and Building Engineering.

1 Tolerance of Buildings to Settlement: Recommendations have been published on total and differential settlement for various classes of buildings, starting with monumental structures and ending with temporary warehouses...
2 Exceptional Case of Settlement: The Valley of Mexico, the site of Mexico City, in some ways is a large-scale laboratory for demonstrating principles of soil mechanics...

3 Problems in Proving Settlement: One of the authors was asked to express opinions on two sites where the
failure of foundations was questionable...