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Get Deep into the Field of Excavation-Planning, Practice, and Safety
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.

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

From the forward of this book:
“….This book is intended to serve as a first introduction to excavation work for any person at any level of education, age, and experience who is new to excavation issues in his or her work.
For those engineers and construction managers interested in focusing their practice around excavation-related construction engineering, I would like to offer some encouragement. The exciting thing about this work is that engineering design, start to finish, usually takes days to weeks, not months and years. The design process is much different than for permanent projects. The concept is originated by contractors, and the approval process is many times limited to the project design engineer, again taking a very short time. In most cases the project is funded and already under construction, with the overall project cost being in the millions while the shoring design cost is insignificant in comparison to the project cost and the shoring cost. This means that the shoring design engineer’s experience and ability to make things happen fast is far more important than the design fee. Construction of the design is usually started within weeks and sometimes completed and removed within weeks. There is a shortage of e gineering firms specializing in construction engineering….”

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 Designo Open Cut Protective Systems
• Excavation Safety Systems Equipment Design and Use
• Legal Issues
• Understanding OSHA Excavation Safety Standardso Full Commentary on OSHA Subpart P Excavations
• • Glossary of Terms