Spon's Landscape Handbook

This professional reference book covers in detail the specification of landscape works, giving descriptions, illustrations and standard clauses for the entire range of landscaping operations. It provides an essential back up to Spon's Landscape and External Works Price Book and the new edition has been linked even more closely to this key industry reference.

There have been such great changes in legislation, official guidance, the British Standards and the techniques used in landscape and external works since the third edition was written ten years ago that the Handbook has been totally rewritten for this edition.This new edition of the Handbook provides a guide to planning and landscape law, a review of computer-aided design techniques for landscape designers, together with guidance on data to be collected during first site visits. The opportunity has been taken to change the format of the work sections to comply with SMM7 to make it easier to find specific items and to read in conjunction with the current edition of Spon's Landscape and External Works Price Book. The SMM7 sections are now divided into four parts - General Guidance, British Standards, Data and Outline Specification. Diagrams, typical drawings and photographs illustrate each section. The useful bibliography has been updated and revised.

Introduction to the Fourth Edition. Current legislation. Computer-aided design and information technology. Pre-contract information. Guide to specification. In-situ concrete. Waterproofing. Building/landscape sundries: trenches for buried engineering services. Paving generally. Planting generally. Fences generally. Site and street furniture generally. Drainage below ground: surface water drainage. Land drainage. Piped supply system. Water features. Electrical supply/power/lighting systems. Bibliography. List of manufacturers and suppliers. Index.