ISBN 9780750617710

Author/Module Code: PAUL

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The primary aim of this book is to provide a guide to current practice and equipment for non-specialist surveyors in the various professions involved in the construction industry and the environment. It is suitable for students preparing for degrees and diplomas in architecture, building, building surveying, quantity surveying, estate management and town planning and environmental studies. It is also of value to engineers who are not specialising in engineering surveying.This book has been thoroughly revised to include new topics such as OS digital mapping, standard deviation and standard error, global positioning systems, transition and vertical curves.

CONTENTS INCLUDE: Introduction to surveying; National Maps; Site investigations; Direct distance measurement; Height measurement; Angular measurement; Indirect distance measurement; Levelling applications; Control surveys; Detail survey; Building surveys; Setting out; Curve ranging; Areas and volumes.