Thanks for the interest!
The soil is largely clay, with bits of building rubble...I have serious trouble digging in it, so I think it qualifies as compactible!
Honestly, i am leaning towards a rubble trench , to aid in leveling and so the steel won't have water sitting right under it, but with huge weight and a 40 "x48"
footprint, I expect them to be very stable.
I have seen one photo of a military building made up of two parallel walls of these totes, wooden roof trusses spanning the space between them.
I lost track of it and my search fu has found pretty much nothing on building with these IBCs.
If I complete it, I want to post photos and learn to point search engines to it.