Acta Scientiarum Polonorum

In case of high rise building foundation soil, unlike in other objects a special selection of geotechnical
methods is required for site characterization. The paper reveals limitations of standard methods applicability
to identification of soil conditions. A ready to use formulae for stiff cohesive and dense cohesionless soils
were presented which can be used as the first step in evaluation of soil stiffness at the stage of foundation
design. Taking advantage of examples of recently constructed high rise buildings in Warsaw an approach to
identification of initial state and stiffness parameters determination was presented.