Preparing Projects for Site Construction is an indispensable reference library of savvy, practical, and essential information necessary for executing smart planning and profitable land development. This book provides project owners, consultants, builders, and government authorities with a deeper and more advanced understanding of the dynamics that drive land planning, design, and engineering in preparation for site construction. Simply put-they don't teach this stuff in school. 416 pp.

Learn how to:

• Handle steep and broken terrain
• Avoid mistakes common in planning land development
• Generate better plans, specifications, and project documents
• Build more complete cost estimates and dependable budgets
• Capitalize on opportunities by taking advantage of what the land will give
• Strategize, establish, and maintain consultant, contractor, and buyer control
• Strengthen team structure resulting in enhanced design and timely engineering
• Avoid poor weather, inaccurate topography, and surprise subsurface conditions
• Integrate road design with slope analysis and alternative grading plans to produce minimal-cost site layouts
• Develop sensitive areas, utilize native trees, and recycle dirt, rock, woody material, and demolition debris

Preparing Projects for Site Construction: Smart Practices for Profitable Land Development - Table of Contents:

• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Choosing Consultants
• Design-Build
• Early Logistics
• Rules of Measurement and Control
• Metric or Not
• Wetlands & Other Sensitive Areas
• Fire Control Planning
• Route Analysis
• Slope Analysis & Manipulation
• Trails
• The Geotechnical Waltz
• Developing Plans & Specifications
• Site Work Cost Estimating
• Dealing With Dry Utilities
• Coping With Hazmat & Contaminated Soils
• Recycling, Topsoil Screening & Pit Considerations
• A Word About Native Trees
• Leveraging Pre-existing Conditions