ABSTRACT

Winner of the 2004 Claire P. Holdredge Award of the Association of Engineering Geologists (USA).The only book to concentrate on the relationship between geology and its implications for construction, this book covers the full scope of the subject from site investigation through to the complexities of reservoirs and dam sites. Features include inter

chapter 1|96 pages

Land evaluation and site investigation

chapter 2|84 pages

Open excavation and slopes

chapter 3|66 pages

Subsurface excavations

chapter 4|97 pages

Foundation conditions and buildings

chapter 5|62 pages

Routeways

chapter 6|71 pages

Reservoirs and dam sites

chapter 7|82 pages

Hydrogeology

chapter 8|82 pages

River and coastal engineering

chapter 9|55 pages

Waste and its disposal

chapter 10|42 pages

Derelict and contaminated land

chapter 11|53 pages

Geological materials used in construction