Well I don't know about human living quarters, but we did try to build it as sound as we could afford to.  The footings are 12" thick, with subflooring inside poured to hold the heaviest of semi trucks or tractors without cracking.  Reinforced rebar, with tons of it, poured 24" thick.

See every thing we built of did on that farm was to last a life time.  We didn't intend to ever have to re-do anything.  From the barn, to the steel t-posts (8' posts drove 3 foot into solid rock, corner posts 10' tall, buried in solid concrete 3' into the ground). Even our water/electric lines running to all the pastures, paddocks, pens, and lots were buried 36" into the ground with over sized water lines for good steady pressure at the hydrants and the electric lines sent through piping to give extra protection if we ran over them with trucks/trailers or tractors, with individual shut off's to each one. 

It just wasn't built for us to leave it, we planned to live there and retire there and spend the rest of our days there.  I sure do miss it.  There are plenty of things that if I had to do it over again, that I would do differently though.

Oh, the joys of construction!   It never seems to go as planned. Hopefully they are back at it in the morning.  You know a batch of fresh baked cookies can really get things going!

A watch pot never boils   Now those were not very comforting words were they. 

COnstruction of any kind NEVER goes as planned.. Believe me after my DH working in it for 15 yrs now. I quit trying to figure it out..Lol But I hope your barn goes up soon!!

It would have been nice if it was done before we got 10 feet of snow. Ok,maybe its not 10 feet. Ok, not even 10 inches but still.  A real barn with perfect stalls would have been great! lol  Everybody is still going strong so nothing to worry about.

Hopefully after this all clears up, Ill come home from school to find it completely finished.  Then I will faint as I walk down the aisle way.  Holy sweet mother of all heavenly barns. Yepp, I like that one, maybe the barn will echo when I yell it up to the ceiling!! 

Update needed, please!!  How goes the project?

Where's our update??......I'm sorry...that sounded rude.....Where's our update...Pleassssse

lol 

No news.  Nothing has been done yet.  We still are missing two trusses on the roof and no one has called.    It just snowed here again so they might not be back til Monday or Tuesday.  Oh well. Itll get done. But, one week MY BUTT! lol