Graphic Standards Field Guide To Softscape

Part of Wiley's new Graphic Standard Field Guides series, Graphic Standards Field Guide to Softscape is the reference for the on-the-go professional. The perfect companion to the main Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, this field guide provides the same standard architectural details and drawings that professionals count on from Graphic Standards, and adds photographs and interpretive information that are essential when outside the office and away from the design desk. The small trim size and durable binding makes it easy for landscape architects and designers to keep this resource on hand when on site, at meetings, or with clients. Organized to follow CSI's MasterFormat, this handy reference helps the landscape architect address a wide variety of practical issues pertaining to softscape including site work, working with Wetlands, irrigation systems, planting, and storm water drainage and structures. A procedural checklist makes sure nothing's missed on site.

LEONARD J. HOPPER, RLA, FASLA, is Director of Production and Construction Services at Mark K. Morrison Landscape Architecture, PC. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards and Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, Student Edition and author of Security and Site Design and Graphic Standards Field Guide to Hardscape (all from Wiley). Currently a faculty member at the City College Spitzer School of Architecture, Columbia University, and SUNY Farmingdale in New York, Mr. Hopper is a former president of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Landscape Architecture Foundation, a technical advisor for the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and a frequent speaker at universities and conferences.

Introduction.

Part I. Soils and Earth.

Chapter 1. Soils.

Soil Overview.

Soil Assessment.

Designer Soil Mixes.

Chapter 2. Earth Stripping and Stockpiling.

Topsoil Preservation, Stripping, and Stockpiling.

Chapter 3. Earthworks.

Construction Damage to Existing Trees.

Grading.

Spreading Grading and Topsoil.

Soil Erosion and Sediment Controls.

Storm Water Pollution Controls.

Part II. Planting.

Chapter 4. Trees.

Nursery Stock Standards.

Site Considerations and Tree Selection.

Tree Selection at the Nursery.

Soil Amendments.

Deciduous Tree Planting.

Evergreen and Conifer Tree Selection and Planting.

Chapter 5. Shrubs and Groundcovers.

Shrub Selection and Planting.

Chapter 6. Turf.

Considerations and Objectives.

Chapter 7. Planting in Difficult or Special Situations.

Tree Planting in Paved Areas.

Green Roofs.

Xeriscape.

Part III. Irrigation.

Chapter 8. Irrigation.

Irrigation Systems.