eShop USA > Books > Time-Saver Standards Site Construction Details Manual
Time-Saver Standards Site Construction Details Manual
List Price: $63.00Our Price: $50.40 You Save: $12.60 (20%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Spiral-bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 624
EAN: 9780070170391
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0070170398
Label: McGraw-Hill Professional
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: October 01, 1998
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Studio: McGraw-Hill Professional
Related Items: Featured Listmania!
Editorial Review:
This efficiency-boosting resource gives you fast access to 350 of the most commonly used site construction details. Details for curbs, steps, lighting fixtures, walls, and much more are ready to be copied from the convenient spiral-bound, lie-flat format. In addition, this manual offers you a clear view of each detail both in section and in a photograph of a sample installation. To further simplify and speed up your design and adaptation work, each clear, standard-scaled detail is accompanied by full data on cost, CSI Masterformat reference, applications, installation, intensity of use and substrate constraints, maintenance and climatological requirements, and other relevant considerations. Perfect for on-site consultation or desktop at-a-glance reference, as well as time-saving adaptation to documents, Site Construction Details Manual gives landscape, design, and construction professionals the comprehensive and up-to-date selection of details they need, right where they need it. Any way you look at it, this all-in-one detail anthology is an invaluable on-the-job toolÑone that youÕll definitely want to keep within reach. And it's a handy companion to the popular Landscape Construction Details CD-ROM!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great reference book for your office
This is a great book that I use all the time in my design work. It's organized really well making it very easy to use. Like Gang Chen mentioned in his review, you can't just copy and apply each detail as is, you have to adapt it to your specific climate and design program. That said, the details are a great starting point. I recommend this book to not only landscape architects working in large LA firms, but also to the residential designers who incorporate a lot of detailing in their plans.
Rating:  - A good site construction reference book for architects, landscape architects and engineers
Detailing is difficult for young design professionals. College education does not cover enough detail design, the only ways to learn how to develop details are: 1) learn through working experience in design offices; 2) teach yourself by reading good books.
"Time-Saver Standards Site Construction Details Manual" can alleviate this problem. When they wrote this book, Nicholas T. Dines, FASLA was a professor and director for the graduate MLA program at the University of Massachusetts, ... Read More
Related Categories:
| |
 |
