Soils for Landscape Development [OP]: Selection, Specification and Validation - Softcover

Leake, Simon; Haege, Elke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0643109641 ISBN 13: 9780643109643

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Soils for Landscape Development provides a clear, practical and systematic template for specifying landscape soils based on scientific criteria. The soil specifications provide essential information and a universally applicable method for landscape architects and designers, specification writers, landscape contractors and soil supply companies to ensure quality and fit-for-purpose soils. A strong emphasis is placed on reducing environmental impacts by reuse of on-site soil, promoting appropriate minimal soil intervention, and using recycled products.

KEY FEATURES:

* A ready reference to landscape soils to inform and promote sound reasoning for client understanding and satisfaction.

*The Soil Approach Method which promotes consideration of existing site resources and outlines steps to take to minimize costs through soil reuse and to use site soil analysis and edaphic considerations to inform and promote sustainable design.

*A Site Soil Characterization and Investigation Specification providing a method by which site-won soils should be characterized and can then be used to form part of the performance specification.

*Performance Based Specifications - where a compulsory specification is given outlining the ranges of physical and chemical properties essential for the performance criteria to meet the landscape treatment.

*A set of Design Drivers to improve the adaptation of landscape to place and hence success rates and provide optimum landscape performance.

*Verification and Quality Assurance Specification– steps and guidelines to enable clear, standard industry accepted processes over the quality of the product, certification requirements, construction process, and correct supply of specified landscape soils.

About this title

About the Authors

Simon Leake is a soil scientist and Director of SESL Australia. He has over 30 years of experience in the analysis, diagnosis, specification and quality assurance of agricultural soils and landscape soil media and has been lecturing and writing in the soil sciences for amenity and environmental horticulture for over 25 years.

Elke Haege is an award winning landscape architect and consulting arborist who isdedicated to the development of and sustainable connection to natural systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0643109641
• ISBN 13: 9780643109643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188