Practical Manual of Land Development [Hardcover]

Barbara Colley (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0070119678 | ISBN-13: 978-0070119673 | Publication Date: September 1, 1998 | Edition: 3

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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From the Back Cover

The Premier Guide of Land Development Professionals. This is the essential book for civil engineers in land development and a helpful guide for ALL land development professionals. The newly updated and expanded Practical Manual of Land Development provides you with: what you need to know about land development engineering; step-by-step instructions for designing grading plans; streets, roads, and highways; parking lots; sanitary sewers and storm drains; complete instructions for civil engineering design from feasibility studies to construction coordination; guidelines for preparing cost and fee estimates; checklists for plans, specifications, and estimates; an understanding of the influence of other professionals and the public in land development; guidance for coordinating with other land development professionals.

About the Author

Barbara Colley, P.E., is the head of BC3E, Barbara Colley Consulting Engineers, a firm that provides a full range of civil engineering design services, based in San Jose, California. She is a land development specialist with over 30 years experience.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 3 edition (September 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070119678
• ISBN-13: 978-0070119673
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,841,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Blunderous Attempt, September 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Practical Manual of Land Development (Hardcover)

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.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book for introduction of Land Development, December 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Practical Manual of Land Development (Hardcover)

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.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Reply to A Blunderous Attempt, October 24, 2005

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corgicat (san francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Practical Manual of Land Development (Hardcover)

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....