Not a civil engineer, but I think different areas have very different considerations, and I'm not sure there is a 'normal' residential construction. A beach-sid

Not a civil engineer, but I think different areas have very different considerations, and I'm not sure there is a 'normal' residential construction. A beach-side house in Florida probably has very different issues from a house built somewhere like Las Vegas. Salt, humidity, wind, earthquakes, soil, and other considerations vary.