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Surveying for construction

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Maidenhead McGraw-Hill Education 2006Edition: 5th edDescription: ix, 342p ill, tables, diagrams 30cmISBN:
  • 0077111141
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 526.902469 $2 18
Partial contents:
Surveying fundamentals -- Understanding maps and plans -- Linear surveying -- Levelling -- Contouring -- Vertical sections -- Theodolites and total stations -- Traverse surveys -- Global positioning system -- Detail survey -- Curve ranging -- Setting out construction works -- Mensuration areas -- Mensuration volumes -- Surveys of existing buildings.
Summary: Offers a clear and comprehensive guide to the principles, methods and equipment used in modern surveying. This new edition has been fully updated and revised to include the latest information on levelling, total stations, detail surveys and Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM), together with a new chapter on Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. Aimed mainly at students of engineering who are new to surveying, building and environmental studies, and archaeology.Summary: Supersedes 4th ed. (ISBN 0077079981)
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Surveying fundamentals -- Understanding maps and plans -- Linear surveying -- Levelling -- Contouring -- Vertical sections -- Theodolites and total stations -- Traverse surveys -- Global positioning system -- Detail survey -- Curve ranging -- Setting out construction works -- Mensuration areas -- Mensuration volumes -- Surveys of existing buildings.

Offers a clear and comprehensive guide to the principles, methods and equipment used in modern surveying. This new edition has been fully updated and revised to include the latest information on levelling, total stations, detail surveys and Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM), together with a new chapter on Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. Aimed mainly at students of engineering who are new to surveying, building and environmental studies, and archaeology.

Supersedes 4th ed. (ISBN 0077079981)