Time-Saver Standards Landscape Construction Details [CD-ROM]

Nicholas T. Dines (Author), Charles W. Harris (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 007026726X | ISBN-13: 978-0070267268 | Publication Date: September 1, 1997 | Edition: 2

Access all the landscape design and construction details you need at the push of a button with this time-saving CD-ROM library. It's your fastest route to general details, applications, installation notes, and cost data. More than 350 landscape details in CAD and PICT formats include color photographs of built examples. The interactive format lets you customize designs in record time, and you can download details into CAD programs such as AutoCAD and DataCAD. Details are provided for paving, paving joints, edges, dividers, curbs, steps, seatwalls, planting, lighting, drainage, and much more.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Based on the printed Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture (McGraw, 1997) by Nicholas Dines and Charles Harris, this highly specialized disc is a landscape designer's dream come true. Covering a wide variety of project types (from public plazas to private gardens), it will be useful to the individual homeowner/ do-it-yourselfer as well as to professional landscape architects. The advantages it offers over print are many, the most impressive of which are the more than 350 landscape details in CAD and PICT formats with color photographs of completed examples. The highly customizable interactive designs are very easy to follow and should be comprehensible to most. Bottom Line: Highly recommended for public and academic libraries serving landscape architects; recommended, too, for serious gardeners' home libraries.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Nicholas T. Dines, FASLA, is a professor of landscape architecture and former director of the landscape architecture graduate program at the University of Massachusetts where for over 30 years, he has taught courses in site engineering, structures, design studio, design drawing, design theory, and professional practice. He is the co-editor of McGraw-Hill's Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture; co-author of Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Construction Details CD, and its companion publication, Time-Saver Standards Concise Site Construction Details Manual; and author of, Landscape Perspective Drawing. He has over 32 years of professional experience, including a 10-year period of work on residential and recreational design projects in Greece. He currently is conducting research in multi-media applications to both professional and academic design and planning practices, with a special focus on site construction and sustainable design. He has a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and a MLA degree from Harvard University. His home is in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 448 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 2 edition (September 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007026726X
• ISBN-13: 978-0070267268
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,193,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for a start on detailing..., June 5, 2000

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After having wandered through it a bit, this software seems to provide a good starting point for detailing. The interface is quite easy to use, and provides enough choices to make the results fairly accurate. The details that are provided form a good skeleton for devising more appropriate ones (if necessary). The only problem is that the details are completely exploded, so changing them can be tedious (i.e. altering dimensions or hatches), and depending on your office standards, there's a lot of layer work that may be done to get pen assignments and all of that done. So, at first glance it looks like a good tool for a starting point, and to provide 'place holders' for the information that's needed on the details... plus... easy to use and the graphical interface is nice.