Preparing Projects for Site Construction: Smart Practices for Profitable Land Development (Project Logic)

This reference library of smart, practical, and hands-on procedures is an authoritiative text providing builders, consultants, and project owners with a deeper and more advanced understanding of how to manage land planning, design, and engineering in preparation for site construction. Beginning with choosing consultants, subjects include design build, early logistics, site measurement, metric versus imperial, wetlands and sensitive areas, fire control planning, route and slope analysis, trails, geotechnical work, plans and specifications, cost estimating, dry utilities, contaminated soils, recycling and processing material, trees, and pre-existing site conditions. A source of seasoned and fresh information, this book is an indispensable tool for developers and owners wanting to strengthen project control, avoid site work cost overruns, and minimize schedule impact. It comes complete with logic diagrams and flow chart illustrations.Roderick D. Johnston is the author of 'Preparing Projects for Site Construction: Smart Practices for Profitable Land Development (Project Logic)', published 2005 under ISBN 9780971987210 and ISBN 0971987211.