11ant
2021-02-10 14:30:26
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It is not yet entirely clear to me what your core concern is: do your doubts relate to the cellar in general, that is, whether it could support a stone house at all when it only had to be designed for a wooden house; or specifically to the cellar after the fire event, whether it could previously have supported a stone house and was not fully "utilized" with a wooden house, and after the fire a new wooden house would already be the limit? A structural analysis proves the stability of the construction project (already done back then), a verification analysis checks whether the structural engineer correctly calculated the actual structural analysis (also already done back then). After that came the fire event. Its damage report should have addressed whether the cellar still has the same structural suitability as before the fire – I already said about that
. The new house definitely needs its own structural analysis again, basically using the cellar ceiling as a foundation. The structural engineer will say where supports still need to be placed in the cellar rooms if now load-bearing walls are planned above the cellar ceiling in different locations than exist in the cellar itself or were considered for the previous house. I would therefore much more expect limitations on the freedom of the floor plan layout of the new house rather than have fundamental concerns about building a stone house. You can use aerated concrete; it does not have to be the heaviest sand-lime brick plus facing brick.
I do not expect the cellar's suitability to be impaired; the fire was apparently above, and "only" smoke gas and extinguishing water affect the concrete less.