Landscapes Estimating & Contract Administration [Paperback]

Stephen Angley (Author), Edward Horsey (Author), David Roberts (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0766825736 | ISBN-13: 978-0766825734 | Publication Date: December 13, 2001 | Edition: 1

"Landscape Estimating and Contract Administration" contains business information necessary for students studying landscape design, installation, and maintenance. Each of the 22 chapters is designed to provide enough material for a one-hour classroom lecture. Self-testing questions and key word definitions in each chapter help make the text user-friendly for the teaching and learning of landscape design, installation, and maintenance. The text identifies how to estimate the cost of landscape work for bidding and budgeting purposes, and how to monitor the costs of each job. Discussions of breach of contract, landscape specifications, and liens are also included.

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About the Author

Stephen Angley has a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Degree, and Master of Science Degree in ornamental Horticulture and has been a landscape contractor for 6 years and an instructor in landscape contracting for 24 years (for the last 20 years at Cal Poly, one of the most prominent landscape contracting schools in the US) and has been an active member of the California Landscape Contractors Association and Associated Landscape Contractor of American (ALCA) for 20 years and is now serving on three ALCA committees.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 1 edition (December 13, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0766825736
• ISBN-13: 978-0766825734
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #96 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Agricultural Sciences > Horticulture

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