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Practical Manual of Land Development
by: Barbara Colley

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 624
EAN: 9780070119673
ISBN: 0070119678
Label: McGraw-Hill Professional
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: September 01, 1998
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Sales Rank: 394109
Studio: McGraw-Hill Professional

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The first choice among land development engineers, this edition is newly updated and expanded. It is required reading for young engineers and a convenient reference for experienced engineers. This is the essential book for civil engineers in land development and provides helpful information for all land development professionals including feasibility studies and cost estimating. Once you see this book you will want it. Practical Manual of Land Development provides step-by-step instructions for design, including formulas, tools, technical data, guidelines, and checklists to make your development project run smoothly. This Third Edition emphasizes efficient usage of computers and now includes specifications for ADA and NPDES. It is presented in metric as well English units.

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- Reply to A Blunderous Attempt
I haven't read the book, but as a production manager for a publishing company for a number of years, I can only say that it is not the author's responsibility or fault that there were errors. It is the copyeditor's responsibility to make sure that two plus two equal four(even in artwork), and the proofreader's responsibility to make sure there are no misspellings. It's nice if the author can catch them, but they rarely do--that's why we hire copyeditors and proofreaders.

As to metric--don't know. Is the author or the book publisher European? The rest of the world uses metric, although there are some in the U.S. that use metric (CalTrans, for instance). All I can think of is that the editor was pushing a metric book to be the first on the block, or to sell to a bigger European market....

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- A good book for introduction of Land Development
I got this book just one month ago. This book is very good for the introduction of Land Development. As for the units, I think that some engineers don't like S-I Units (especially the engineers in the east coast). But in the future, all the people around the world will use it.

Anyway, we can use this book for the introduction material. There are a lot of regulations and codes waiting for us to read.

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- A Blunderous Attempt
The author makes a poor effort to even proof read her work. Several of the examples of design are filled with mathematical errors that someone with a professional license should not be making. With most of the professionals in the field of land development using English units, the author's insistent use of metric makes her work difficult to examine and even less useful as a design guide.

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