What Foundations you need for Solar Carport?Base and Spacing
It’s the key feature that you need in order to set the right foundation, the right base. It’s really important to understand the soil, what’s there, is it a looser soil, rock, whatever it may be so that we could design the foundation to what is needed. Typically, we see a column I-beam type of foundation, but we have done spread footers. There are options for helicals in the ground – we would make that column connection also for the aboveground use.
Typical spacing from column-to-column, kind of like you see here in this photo, is 27 feet. So, typically we’ll design our systems beneath that 27-foot spacing from column-to-column. It does again depend on your soil content. Also depends upon size mix, snow loads, wind loads, things like that, that could add some variation.
