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.

With 375 problems fully solved step by step, and clear, well-illustrated coverage of the practices and applications of surveying, this powerful study guide can help you master your course with less study time. Perfect for independent study, it gives you full coverage of the entire subject, from trigonometry for surveyors through drawing maps. With Schaums, you know youre getting a quality product, and this study guide for beginning courses in surveying is the best there is.

Cornell Weller untersucht in diesem Buch subjektive Einflusse der Schadensbewertung in Bauwerksprufungen nach DIN 1076. Zur Reduzierung von Bewertungsunsicherheiten werden zusatzliche Bewertungsstufen in das Verfahren der RI-EBW-PRUEF eingefuhrt. Die Fragestellung, ob mit dem modifizierten Verfahren Tendenzen der Schadensfortschreitung fruhzeitiger erfassbar sind, wird anhand einer Stichprobe von 220.000 einzelnen Bruckenschaden analysiert. Die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der fruhzeitigeren Erfassung dieser Tendenzen werden in Kostenrechnungen mit Hilfe der Risiko- und Szenarioanalyse ausgewertet.

The book deals entire surveying theory and practice to be studied by civil engineering students. It covers all basic methods of surveying like chain surveying, compass surveying, plane table surveying , theodolite surveying and explain use of levels, contouring etc. It also covers modern methods of leveling like stations, photogram metric surveying and remote sensing, astronomical survey is also covered. Application of surveying to engineering projects, calculation of areas and volumes of earthwork involved in the field work are explained and illustrated with problems. New in this edition: Apart from making some corrections and revisions at some places one new chapter ""Photogrammetry"" has been added to this edition. Diploma and degree students of civil engineering, architecture and mining will find this book useful.

Sponsored by the Committee on Seismic Effects on Nonstructural Components of the Architectural Engineering Institute of ASCE Facade Access Equipment provides structural engineering guidance regarding the design, evaluation, and testing of permanent anchorages and components that support facade access equipment and fall-arrest systems. Currently this equipment is governed by sections of the Code of Federal Regulations maintained by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Many OSHA requirements are not written using terminology that is commonly used by structural engineers, so this book conveys the generally understood meaning of the regulations in terms familiar to structural engineers. The introduction to this book reviews OSHA requirements for permanent, building-supported facade access equipment, discusses structural load testing, and surveys common types of facade access equipment. Key terms are defined, and design requirements are discussed for the following types of equipment: davits and davit bases, outriggers, rooftop carriages, tieback anchorages, lifelines and fall-arrest anchorages, fall-restraint systems and anchorages, wind sway protection systems, and platforms. Methods of evaluation and testing are presented, including visual observations and calculations, materials testing, and load testing. Separate commentary chapters elaborate on various OSHA requirements. Structural engineers, architects, building officials, and allied professionals will benefit from this clear guidance regarding structural components for access and safety.

This textbook covers all the basic methods of surveying and levelling, the applications of surveying and levelling, and the calculation of areas and volumes of earth work involved in field work. Minor instruments used in the field are also explained. A number of solved problems are included to aid understanding. This book will be of value to diploma and degree students in civil engineering, architecture and mining.

This textbook presents on a very elementary level the basic concepts for error compensation, including the required prerequisites from statistics. The book addresses students and practitioners of surveying, geodesy, engineering and applied sciences. The well-structured text is complemented by numerous illustrations, applications, examples and exercises.

The book provides an excellent description of the birth and development of remote sensing, especially valuable in Canada because of its many areas of difficult access, and of geographical information systems, a Canadian innovation. For those interested in maps themselves rather than the techniques of gathering the necessary information, there are chapters on the development of federal and provincial map and chart styles, the wealth of atlases, and the numerous thematic maps produced in Canada as well as on how this spatial information has been marketed. For the surveyor there are chapters on the contributions of geodesy, cadastral surveying, and engineering surveying. The photogrammetrist's interests are addressed by chapters on federal mapping, Canada's air survey industry, and photogrammetric research. There are also chapters on education, the naming of Canada's places and features, and Canada's international role in mapping and surveying. Serving as a conclusion to Don Thomson's three-volume Men and Meridians, Mapping a Northern Land will be an essential reference not only for those who work in the field of geomatics but for those interested in maps, charts, and atlases and in new technology for surveying and mapping.

For the third edition, the author has revised his popular text and enlarged the chapters on the valuation of freehold and leasehold interests, discounted cash flow techniques and methods of valuation. An additional chapter on computer applications has been provided. This is a valuable text for first stage valuation examinations for professional degree and diploma courses and includes fully worked examples and self-test questions.

Property Finance is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the field of property finance, linking the practicalities of property and construction with an understanding of core financial structures and concepts. It introduces the key components of real estate investment and development cycles, and explores the interconnected roles of the financial services industry, property companies, joint ventures, banks, and real estate developers. For this edition, a new co-author, Mark Daley, has been brought on board. He brings a wealth of knowledge and teaching experience to this well-established textbook. An ideal book for students undertaking real estate or construction-related degrees, it is also useful for personal study or further information and help in this particular area of finance.

This compilation analyses South African trends and public opinion between 1999 and 2001 on key policy areas and contributes to the debate around the challenges to, and prospects for, consolidating democracy in South Africa. It provides all stakeholders in South Africa with information and analytic insights.

This book presents the developments of geodesy from antiquity through the Middle Ages and the early modern era, right up to the middle of the 20th century, with a special focus on the developments in Germany.

Practical Surveying and Computations is long established as a major land surveying textbook.

The book has been completely rewritten revised to take account of the profound changes in surveying methods and applications due to electronic instrumentation and computerized data processing systems. These new developments give today's surveyor unprecedented freedom in the numerical handling of data. As a result, the emphasis is shifted from the need for detailed understanding of instrument function to the avoidance of blunders at the data-gathering stage and the ability to appraise computer output in the light of fundamental principles: that is, a quality control system. The explanations and examples in this new edition help equip readers to select those procedures and techniques that are most reliable, accurate, cost effective and appropriate to the problem tackled.

Spon's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2019 continues to be the most comprehensive and best annual services engineering price book currently available, providing detailed pricing information across the full range of mechanical and electrical services, together with higher-level costs for a diverse range of systems and different building applications. Use the access code inside the front cover of the book to get set up with an ebook of this 2019 edition on the VitalSource (R) Bookshelf platform. This versatile and powerful online data viewing package is available for use until the end of December 2019. In this 50th edition we have significantly updated the engineering features section and added a section on smart building technology. Along with the following new and significantly developed items: Tuneable white luminaires Wireless lighting control PV cells Battery storage systems All the standard features you have come to expect from SPON'S MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES PRICE BOOK are also included, considered essential for today's services cost professional: detailed materials prices, labour constants, labour costs and measured work prices for mechanical and electrical works, from above ground drainage to automatic transfer switches, and circuit breakers to sprinkler systems an extensive Approximate Estimating section for quick, rule-of-thumb pricing of mechanical or electrical installations, together with elemental services costs for different types and standard of buildings full details of wage rates, daywork and cost indices on a national and Central London basis an overhauled index and guidance notes updates, free of charge, two or three times a year - see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk ~Spon's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2019 continues to be the most comprehensive and best annual services engineering price book currently available, providing detailed pricing information across the full range of mechanical and electrical services, together with higher-level costs for a diverse range of systems and different building applications. Use the access code inside the front cover of the book to get set up with a VitalSource (R) ebook of this 2019 edition. This versatile and powerful online data viewing package is available for use until the end of December 2019. In this 50th edition we have significantly updated the engineering features section and added a section on smart building technology. Along with the following new and significantly developed items: - Tuneable white luminaires - Wireless lighting control - PV cells - Battery storage systems All the standard features you have come to expect from SPON'S MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES PRICE BOOK are also included, considered essential for today's services cost professional: * detailed materials prices, labour constants, labour costs and measured work prices for mechanical and electrical works, from above ground drainage to automatic transfer switches, and circuit breakers to sprinkler systems * an extensive Approximate Estimating section for quick, rule-of-thumb pricing of mechanical or electrical installations, together with elemental services costs for different types and standard of buildings * full details of wage rates, daywork and cost indices on a national and Central London basis. * an overhauled index and guidance notes * updates, free of charge, two or three times a year - see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk