Construction Planning, Equipment, and Methods, Tenth Edition ✓ Most Recent [ Active ]

A single reference for exergy data, standards, and extensiveness

This thoroughly revised guide covers the fundamentals of construction equipment, machinery utilization, and production estimating in a logical, simple, and concise format. You will learn about construction economics, earthwork, soil and rock properties, and much more. Construction Planning, Equipment, and Methods, Tenth Edition lays out the latest technologies and lays out real-world applications–all with an emphasis on cutting-edge machine capabilities. Examples and illustrations showcase the latest equipment models, while chapter summaries and homework problems help reinforce salient points. Written by a team of construction management experts, this up-to-date edition features new chapters on trenches, trenchless technology, and virtual design. Coverage includes:

• The history of construction machines

• Equipment economics

• Safety

• Planning for earthwork construction

• Compaction and stabilization equipment

• Mobile equipment power requirements

• Dozers, graders, and excavators

• Trenching and trenchless technology

• Trucks, scrapers, and cranes

• Drilling and blasting

• Aggregate production

• Asphalt and concrete

• Piles and pile driving equipment

• Machines for building construction

• Forming systems

• Virtual design and construction

Author Robert L. Peurifoy, Clifford J. Schexnayder, Robert Schmitt, Aviad Shapira, Aaron Cohen