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

Part I: Estimating, Accounting, and Contract Documents.

Chapter 1: Equipment Accounting.

Chapter 2: Equipment Acquisition Decisions.

Chapter 3: Equipment Maintenance and Repair.

Chapter 4: Heavy Construction Estimating Overview.

Chapter 5: Heavy Construction Law and Contract Documents.

Chapter 6: Plan Reading and Quantity Takeoff: An Overview.

Part II: Bulk Excavation Operations.

Chapter 7: Common Excavation Formulas and Calculations.

Chapter 8: Preparing for Earthwork.

Chapter 9: Earthmoving Methods.

Chapter 10: Compaction Methods, Equipment and Troubleshooting.

Chapter 11: Rockmoving Methods.

Chapter 12: Bunching.

Chapter 13: Mass Diagrams.

Part III: Other Heavy Construction Operations.

Chapter 14: Crushing and Aggregate Manufacture.

Chapter 15: Stabilization of Soils.

Chapter 16: Trenching and Pipes.

Chapter 17: Augered Casings, Jacked Pipe, and Tunnels.

Chapter 18: Concrete and Bituminous Paving, Pavement Rehabilitation.

Chapter 19: Dewatering Cut-off Walls, and Cofferdams.

Chapter 20: Erecting Structural Steel.

Chapter 21: Placing of Vertical Concrete.

Chapter 22: Piles and Piledriving.

Part IV: Equipment.

Chapter 23: Power Fundamentals.

Chapter 24: Tractors, Dozing, and Ripping.

Chapter 25: Scrapers.

Chapter 26: Motor Graders.

Chapter 27: Power Shovels and Off-Road Haulers.

Chapter 28: Front-End Loaders.

Chapter 29: Backhoes, Draglines, Gradalls, and Trenchers.

Chapter 30: Air Compressors.

Chapter 31: Rock Drilling Equipment.

Chapter 32: Crushers and Conveyors.

Chapter 33: Concrete Conveyors and Pumps.

Chapter 34: Water Pumps.

Part V: Hazardous Waste: Site Assessment and Remediation.

Chapter 35: Hazardous Wastes: Site Assessment and Remediation Methods.

Part VI: How To Use Means Heavy Construction Cost Data.

Chapter 36: How to Use Means Cost Data.

Appendix.

Glossary of Terms.