Heavy construction : equipment and methods /

Wood, Stuart Jr.

Heavy construction : equipment and methods / Stuart Wood, Jr. - New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, c1977 - xii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamental considerations -- Earthmoving equipment and operations -- excavations and lifting devices -- Equipment allied to earthmoving -- Transporting materials -- Air, drilling and blasting -- Crushing and screening operations -- Concrete -- Asphalt paving -- Tunneling.

A study of the construction industry will reveal that, in a broad sense, it can be broken into three major categories; construction management- or job organization and operation; vertical construction.

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