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Simplified Site Engineering for Architects and Builders (Parker/Ambrose Series of Simplified Design Guides) - Hardcover

Parker, Harry; MacGuire, John W.

 
9780471663638: Simplified Site Engineering for Architects and Builders (Parker/Ambrose Series of Simplified Design Guides)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0471663638 ISBN 13: 9780471663638
Publisher: Wiley, 1954

Synopsis

Contains all the information needed to produce complete and accurate site plans. It is the only work entirely devoted to the solution of landscape and drainage problems that recur so frequently in the preparation of site plans.

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From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

HARRY S. PARKER (DECEASED) was professor of architectural construction at the University of Pennsylvania.

JOHN W. MACGUIRE (deceased) was professor of architectural engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

JAMES AMBROSE has practiced as an architect in California and Illinois and as a structural engineer in Illinois. He recently retired as professor of architecture at the University of Southern California.

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Publisher
Wiley
Publication date
1954
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0471663638
ISBN 13 
9780471663638
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
250