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Means Heavy Construction Handbook: A Practical Guide to Estimating and Accounting Methods; Operations/Equipment Requirements; Hazardous Site Evaluat (RSMeans)

This working handbook provides invaluable assistance for estimating and planning today's more complex urban and suburban heavy construction rehabilitation projects. Means Heavy Construction Handbook is designed to simplify the task by providing relevant information and advice for the problem at hand... whether it's selecting the right number of haulers for a load and haul job, choosing the right method of compaction, or projecting equipment repair and maintenance costs.
You'll find a tremendous range of expert advice on every aspect of heavy construction work... including guidance for using RSMeans cost data to prepare highly reliable estimates.
FEATURES:
Special benefits of this unique Handbook:
Explains the business aspects of buying vs. leasing, maintaining, and accounting for equipment.
Includes a major section on site evaluation and hazardous wastes.
Provides a comprehensive understanding of heavy construction operations and equipment.
Explains techniques for hazardous waste site assessment and remediation.
Provides guidance for analyzing and estimating heavy construction on a unit price basis.
Explains and illustrates the math of heavy construction with formulas and sample calculations – solutions to a variety of productivity and operational problems.
Provides a substantial Appendix of productivity and other reference data for estimating and project planning.
Explains successful management and supervision approaches – including guidance for those who oversee the work.

Trent Simpler (L) and Ronnie Casaus deploy the Proteus Hydroacoustics ROV on Trinidad Lake.
Photo by Richard Banker, May 4, 2011, Trinidad Lake, Colo.

To investigate possible erosion around Trinidad Lake’s dam, Civil Engineering Technician Ronnie Casaus took a group to survey the areas. This was a great opportunity to test the Corps’ new surveying equipment.
Prior to that expedition, the surveying equipment used by the Corps could only investigate above water, so damage that was occurring below water was difficult to see or locate.

The Corps’ new equipment is known as the Proteus Hydroacoustics ROV, and it has a camera attached to allow underwater viewing.

The trip allowed three individuals in Albuquerque and one at John Martin to learn how to operate the Corps’ new equipment, and it provided lessons learned for future survey missions.

NEW YORK — New York District's newest survey vessel sails around the New York and New Jersey Harbor as its crew works to calibrate its newly installed survey equipment. As the vessel hasn't been named yet, people have nicknamed it "Little Giant" after the model of the boat and because it's relatively small. "Little Giant" has four different kinds of surveying capabilities, including a new capability for New York District's fleet - sub-bottom surveying. Sub-bottom surveying allows the vessel to not only determine how far it is to the bottom of a channel, but it can sort of "see through" the layers of sediment to help determine how deep the sediment is before becoming rock. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Chris Gardner)

From the beginnings of the horse car era to the "sardine days" or World War II, Cleveland transit operators provided high quality service while introducing procedures and equipment that were widely copies elsewhere.
The social and political aspects of Cleveland's public transportation history are the subject of this companion volume to Horse Trails to Regional Rails. The focus here is on the technological aspects of the system.
From the start of street railway operations in 1859 until the end of the surface electric era in 1963, the city was crisscrossed with hundreds of miles of track and overhead wire, and with thousands of poles to keep the overhead wire in place. Thousands of streetcars, and then thousands of buses, carried millions of passengers. The old Cleveland Transit System alone carried over 493 million passengers in 1946, and that total does not reflect the ridership of various suburban carriers.
In this volume are described and listed both the early vehicles and the modern ones.
It is not so much a nostalgic look at earlier times as it is a description of how ongoing developments in the industry changed the way the public transportation system carried out its mission. In Cleveland this was accomplished with rare efficiency and with good speed.
The authors confess, whoever, to one nostalgic piece. In 1965, Jack Ainsley, a Cleveland rail fan, wrote his reminiscences about taking the streetcar through the Detroit-Superior Bridge subway. His narrative is in part 3. His recollections help from the technological focus of this volume and give it a more human face.