This in-depth, up-to-date reference for the engineering/construction community describes temporary structures used in design and construction—from scaffolding to retaining walls.
Temporary Structures in Construction, Third Edition offers practical coverage of scaffolding, formwork, shoring, ramps, platforms, earth-retaining structures, and other structures which are not part of the permanent installation. Temporary structures during construction are critical to the safety and reliability of the construction project. Improperly designed, constructed, and maintained temporary structures can result in tragic failures during the construction phase. This fully revised guide is an invaluable resource for professionals and students in construction and will aid in ensuring a safe construction site.
Key Features - New developments in materials, methods, costs, professional and business practices, and legal positions in temporary structures work.
- Updated codes and regulations throughout.
- New chapter on environmental and construction loads with references to ASCE 37, Design Loads on Structures during Construction.
- New chapter on failures of temporary structures, with case studies and lessons learned.
- New chapter on construction cranes.
- More extensive treatment of construction site safety with interest to architects and engineers as well as contractors and owners.
- Heavily revised chapter on earth-retaining structures with extensive illustrations.
- More coverage of OSHA's role and failure statistics.
- Customary US units throughout, with SI units included in appropriate chapters.
Table of contents
Part I – BUSINESS, SAFETY & LEGAL ASPECTS
- Professional & Business Practices
- Codes, Standards, Regulations
- Environmental and Construction Loads
- Construction Site Safety
- Legal Aspects
- Cofferdams
- Earth-retaining Structures
- Diaphragm/Slurry Walls
- Construction Dewatering
- Underground/Tunneling Supports
- Underpinning Roadway Decking
- Construction Ramps, Runways and Platforms
- Scaffolding
- Shoring / Falsework
- Concrete Formwork
- Bracing and Guying
- Bridge Falsework
- Temporary Structures in Repair, Restoration
- Cranes
- Protection of Site, Adjacent Areas and Utilities
- Failures of Temporary Structures in Construction
Index
About the Author
- Robert Ratay, Ph.D., P.E., is a structural engineer in private practice in New York with more than 40 years of design, construction, and teaching experience, and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. His current practice and teaching are focused on the investigation and litigation support of structural and construction failures. Dr. Ratay has been an expert consultant/witness for engineers, contractors, owners, attorneys, and insurance companies in the investigation and litigation support of nearly 100 cases of temporary structure and other construction failures. Earlier in his career he had worked with such prominent engineering firms as Le Messurier Associates, Severud Associates, and HNTB, and had been Professor and Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department, then Dean of the School of Engineering at Pratt Institute, and a Professor at Polytechnic University (formerly Brooklyn Polytech). Dr. Ratay has lectured extensively at conferences and seminars and published in U.S. and international journals on temporary structures in construction. He is the Editor-in-Chief of two other books: Structural Condition Assessment and Forensic Structural Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, published in 2005 and 2010, respectively. Dr. Ratay has served on and chaired several technical committees, was a member of the advisory committee of the Federal Highway Administration to tighten regulations for temporary structures, and is the originator and chairman of the SEI/ASCE 37, Design Loads on Structures during Construction Standard Committee. In 2003, he was named by Engineering News-Record as one of the “Top Newsmakers 2003” who made a mark in the construction industry; in 2011 he was named by Structural Engineer magazine as one of the “Power List” of ten “individuals who bring progress and passion to the structural engineering field.” Dr. Ratay is a Life Member and Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and a Fellow of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE).
Book Details
- Hardcover: 928 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 3 edition (April 30, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071753079
- ISBN-13: 978-0071753074
List Price: $125.00