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.