Excavation Systems Planning, Design, and Safety is a thorough guide to ensuring your projects are completed correctly, safely, and cost effectively. Concisely written and presented in an easy-to-navigate format, this comprehensive guide arms you with the most current information available. New developments and trends, along with numerous design examples, illustrations, and important OSHA requirements and other legal issues, provide everything you'll need to excel in your field. Ideal for anyone involved in the trade, this indispensable resource brings you up to date on all the critical aspects of your job. 509pp.

Includes:

• Shoring Designs Standards
• Best Practices in Safety Planning
• Techniques for Protecting Subsurface Utilities
• Soil Classification
• Soil Loading on Shoring Systems
• OSHA Standards
• Information on Equipment

Excavation Systems Planning, Design, and Safety covers:

• Overview of Excavation Safety
• Excavation Work Planning
• Subsurface Installations and Outside Force Damage Protection
• Soil Dynamics from an Excavation Perspective
• Soil Loading for Protective System Design Open Cut Protective Systems
• Excavation Safety Systems Equipment Design and Use
• Legal Issues
• Understanding OSHA Excavation Safety Standards Full Commentary on OSHA Subpart P Excavations
• Glossary of Terms

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction to Excavation Safety and Shoring Design
• Chapter 2. Engineering Structural Principles for Shoring Design
• Chapter 3. Excavation Work Planning
• Chapter 4. Existing Subsurface Installations and Outside Force Damage Protection
• Chapter 5. Interpreting Soils Information for Excavation Planning and Shoring Design
• Chapter 6. Excavation Stability and Shoring Design Loads
• Chapter 7. Surcharge Loading, Base Stability, and Surface Settlement
• Chapter 8. Slope Stability and Open Cut Worker Protection Systems
• Chapter 9. Shoring Systems Selected from Tabulated Data
• Appendix 1: OSHA Subpart P, Excavations and Commentary
• Appendix 2: OSHA Appendix A, Soil Classification and Commentary
• Index