Parking Structures: Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance and Repair

✍ Scribed by Anthony P. Chrest, Mary S. Smith, Sam Bhuyan (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 685
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawing on the combined expertise of three of the world's leading parking structure experts, this updated edition provides the only single-source guide to planning, designing, and maintaining parking structures. It provides readers with design solutions, including material on how to ensure long-term durability, design for easy maintenance, select the most energy efficient lighting system, decide on the number and placement of entrances and exits, and avoid the most common construction pitfalls.
Reflecting recent advances in technological innovations, this volume features significantly revised mterial and contains five new chapters on the Americans with Disabilities Act, lighting, graphics, seismic design, and designing for maintenance. The Second Edition of Parking Structures offers architects, engineers, parking facility owners, and contractors a unique and comprehensive guide to designing safe and effective parking structures.In addition, institutions providing education courses for professional registration in related fields will benefit from this timely, authoritative account.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Functional Design....Pages 6-58
Access Design....Pages 59-113
Security and Safety....Pages 114-135
Lighting....Pages 136-156
Signage and Graphics....Pages 157-181
Accessible Parking Design....Pages 182-233
Structure....Pages 234-283
Seismic Design....Pages 284-288
Designing for Durability....Pages 289-312
Specifications....Pages 313-395
Construction....Pages 396-418
Designing for Maintenance....Pages 419-424
Maintenance....Pages 425-464
Repair....Pages 465-633
Back Matter....Pages 635-675

✦ Subjects

Civil Engineering