Grading

Description

Grading. LandscapingSMART. 3D-Machine Control Systems. Stormwater Management.

• The successful first edition is extended to include landscapingSMART, BIM, and 3D machine control systems
• Basic tool for terrain modeling
• Best Practice examples and exercises
• Foreword by Peter Walker

Grading is one the most important aspects involved in landscape architecture, and, together with planting and vegetation, the most important tool in designing landscape. Landscape architects must be able to design using contour lines, as well as rapidly develop alternatives and consider options regarding design, ecology, economy, and technology. Knowledge of grading is an indispensable prerequisite.
The book explains the basic aspects of grading such as land forms, scales, interpolation, elevation points, contour lines, earth mass calculation, and also introduces the topics of slope protection systems, rainwater management, or onsite grading.
In the second edition, these basics have been updated to comprise new technologies including landscapingSMART, digital terrain modeling (DTM) and 3D machine control, as well as grading for roads and parking lots, and other terrain modeling construction machines.
Numerous practical examples complement the theoretical foundations, and there is a section for exercises aimed at applying what has been learned.

CONTENTS

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword by Peter Walker
• Introduction
• History of Site Grading
• Landform
• The Basics of Site Grading
• Landscape Stabilization
• Grading Roads and Parking Spaces
• Grading and Stormwater Management
• LandscapingSMART and Digital Terrain Modeling
• Grading and 3D Machine Control Systems
• Terrain Modeling and Construction Machinery
• Grading in Practice
• Appendix

288 pages / 17,5 x 24 cm /English