the thing that has to be kept in mind is mitigating environmental concerns for duration of the structure. you must build to prevent capillary uptake of water f

the thing that has to be kept in mind is mitigating environmental concerns for duration of the structure. you must build to prevent capillary uptake of water from the ground with a break of noncapillary material. if the structure is of substantial weight there must be load path, and that may require foundation, or soils amendment, this in turn will then require proper swaleing and drainage. drip stopping would be required to direct water off of the building where any openings or convergent features occur, and ice dams jams must be preented with design consideration for shedding snowmelt