Simplified Site Engineering
Language: English
Published by John Wiley & Sons February 1997, 1997
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A concise, highly accessible source for site engineering basics. This updated edition of Parker's classic text introduces the basic issues, tasks, and problems of site engineering to students and professionals who need to understand the significance of surveying data. It presents the fundamentals of site engineering --surveying and mapping, drainage, slope stabilization, and basic structures --and explains in detail the solutions to a wide variety of problems, including: * Interpretation of deed descriptions * Dimensioning buildings and sites when angles are other than right angles * Computing areas for irregular plots * Dimensioning and laying out circular curves for driveways and buildings * And much more. Featuring a simplified, accessible style with numerous examples of problems and their solutions, as well as references and practical aids that facilitate home study, this is the ideal surveying and site-planning primer for students in architecture, landscape architecture, and civil and structural engineering. It is also an excellent handbook for working architects, building contractors, and professionals in related fields. shelf wear on bottom edge.…
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- Title
- Simplified Site Engineering
- Author
- Harry Parker, John W Macguire, Marilyn Ed. Parker,
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons February 1997
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0471179876
- ISBN 13
- 9780471179870
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture - Construction - Reference
This updated edition of Parker's classic text introduces the basicissues, tasks, and problems of site engineering to students andprofessionals who need to understand the significance of surveyingdata. It presents the fundamentals of site engineering --surveyingand mapping, drainage, slope stabilization, and basic structures--and explains in detail the solutions to a wide variety ofproblems, including:
* Interpretation of deed descriptions
* Dimensioning buildings and sites when angles are other than rightangles
* Computing areas for irregular plots
* Dimensioning and laying out circular curves for driveways andbuildings
* And much more.
Featuring a simplified, accessible style with numerous examples ofproblems and their solutions, as well as references and practicalaids that facilitate home study, this is the ideal surveying andsite-planning primer for students in architecture, landscapearchitecture, and civil and structural engineering. It is also anexcellent handbook for working architects, building contractors,and professionals in related fields.
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About the Author
JOHN W. MACGUIRE (deceased) was professor of architecturalengineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
JAMES AMBROSE has practiced as an architect in California andIllinois and as a structural engineer in Illinois. He recentlyretired as professor of architecture at the University of SouthernCalifornia.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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