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Site Calculations Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition, is the revised field companion for construction, recreation department, and landscape professionals.
For the busy professional working on-site - this updated, handy pocket reference puts all the formulas and calculations you need at your fingertips. Now with a convenient, lay-flat comb binding, this book is invaluable for all areas of general site construction. It gives you fast access to the information you want - when you want it - complete with real-world examples.
This revised second edition features a new chapter on sports fields that includes descriptions and schematics for more than 40 different fields. It also provides the latest information on:
- Earthworks and materials
- Drainage, sewers, and irrigation
- Grassing, landscaping, and ground covers
- Temperature, area, and time measurement
- Units of weight and measure
- Map and surveyor information
- Worldwide weather data
- And more
Contractors, construction engineers, and landscape architects quite often find themselves out at a construction site and in dire need of a particular calculation, measurement, conversion factor or formula that is sitting back in their office in some full-sized book. The Site Calculations Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition is a pocket-sized reference packed with essential calculations and formulas, offering a quick-reference resource to help them move forward knowing that they are not "guesstimating" based on what they remember of that formula.
From the Preface
How many times have you been in a meeting planning strategies for actual or hypothetical situations and needed that one piece of information, or formula, or chart, to make a determination, only to find that it's unavailable or back at the office? Quite a few, I bet!
My background is civil engineering and golf course construction, and I cannot tell you how many times I have been in that situation.
This book was put together to be a good source of information for site construction of all kinds and for civil engineering in general. From my own experience I have compiled the most frequently used charts, formulas, and conversions used in general site construction, along with practical examples. The book is intended to combine, in one handy pocket-size publication, all aspects of site work, thus eliminating the time and effort spent to tap the many different sources of information required.
For those of us who work outside the United States, I have included the metric conversions for the English data included. Whether you are moving earth, irrigating, landscaping, or calculating water features, pump capacities or drainage, there is information in this guide to help you in initial design, renovation, or additions in site work.
I hope you will find it as convenient and helpful as I have.
- Ed Hannan
Table of Contents
Section. 1: Earthworks and Materials. Section 2: Drainage. Section 3: Irrigation, Water Supply, and Materials. Section: 4: Concrete, Retaining Walls, Streets, and Weir Structures. Section 5: Grassing, Landscaping, Fertilization, and Ground Covers. Section 6: Sports Fields. Section 7: General Information. Section 8: Formulas for Areas and Volumes of Various Geometric Figures. Section 9: Map and Surveyor Information. Section 10: Sanitary Sewers. Section 11: Worldwide Weather Conditions. Appendix: Miscellaneous Conversion Factors. Index.
About the Author
Ed Hannan is a construction project manager and golf course designer who has worked throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. |
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