Time-Saver Standards Site Construction Details Manual
Time-Saver Standards Site Construction Details Manual

Author: Nicholas Dines

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional

Published: 1998-10-22

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780070170391

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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!

Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture
Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture

Author: Charles W. Harris

Publisher: Time-Saver Standards

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 952

ISBN-13:

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This edition of the major reference on graphic and design standards for landscape architecture has increased emphasis on environmental issues such as safe materials and construction techniques, land reclamation, and drainage and flood control.

Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Construction Details
Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Construction Details

Author: Nicholas T. Dines

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Published: 1997-09-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780070267268

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Access all the landscape design and construction details you need at the push of a button with this time-saving CD-ROM library. It's your fastest route to general details, applications, installation notes, and cost data. More than 350 landscape details in CAD and PICT formats include color photographs of built examples. The interactive format lets you customize designs in record time, and you can download details into CAD programs such as AutoCAD and DataCAD. Details are provided for paving, paving joints, edges, dividers, curbs, steps, seatwalls, planting, lighting, drainage, and much more.

Construction for Landscape Architecture
Construction for Landscape Architecture

Author: Jamie Liversedge

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2011-04-18

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1780675003

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Construction for Landscape Architecture covers all aspects of landscape construction, giving a good understanding of building materials and assembly. It is heavily illustrated with specially commissioned, detailed construction drawings and has a strong emphasis on sustainability and good practice. At the end of the book there is an extensive glossary and an appendix of technical information.

Performance Measurement for Construction Profitability
Performance Measurement for Construction Profitability

Author: Clive Thomas Cain

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1405147903

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Performance measurement is the mechanism by which firms informthemselves of their true performance and locate unnecessary coststhrough the supply chain. These can then be converted intosubstantially higher profits in a carefully targeted improvementprogramme. If the construction industry is to meet the performanceimprovements demanded by end users, and to replicate the efficiencyand profitability gains of other sectors, it urgently needs toaddress formal performance measurement. Aimed at all those at the sharp end in every sector of theconstruction industry, including clients and end users, this willbe a highly practical, easy to read guide, focusing strongly on theday-to-day needs of managers at all levels. Using the everydaybusiness language of construction firms, it explains how to set upand run performance measurement, self-assessment and benchmarkingsystems. It is comprehensive and informative with plenty ofreal-life examples and most importantly, tells you what to dodifferently on Monday.

Total Plant Performance Management:
Total Plant Performance Management:

Author: R. Keith Mobley

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 1999-01-12

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0080519350

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Total Plant Performance Management (TPPM) is an unparalleled continuous-improvement program that integrates all plant functions into a single focused effort. The fundamental premise is that all corporate functions, from the boardroom to the shipping department, must share a common vision and effectively work together. This book details TPPM's proven method of implementing continuous improvement throughout your total corporation, not just in certain departments. It shows you how to promote, implement, and maintain continuous improvement; effectively involve all employees; train people the right way; measure equipment reliability and improve maintenance; design and select machines; organize employees within the TPPM plant; avoid plan failure; and analyze the operating dynamics of critical process systems.