General Civil Design Tips
General Civil Design Tips
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I am a newly graduated civil EIT. I am trying to put together a quick reference guide book to help me avoid having to go to the books all the time. Does anyone have one started or know where I can find one on the web?
I would like it to have geometric formulas, recomended pipes sizes, sewer and water pipe parameters (how far apart, how close to a road etc...) and whatever else you can think of that would be helpful on a day to day basis.
Thanks in advance.
I would like it to have geometric formulas, recomended pipes sizes, sewer and water pipe parameters (how far apart, how close to a road etc...) and whatever else you can think of that would be helpful on a day to day basis.
Thanks in advance.





RE: General Civil Design Tips
The best is to learn from the established engineers in your company; ask them what they use every day. No doubt the local (or nearest metropolitan) street department drainage manual will feature. This will govern minimum pipe sizes, permissable pipe materials and acceptable methods of drainage calculation. In the town I worked, the local gas and water department wasn't as organized, but luckily I worked with the former city engineer!
RE: General Civil Design Tips
Lots of good basic stuff there, the rest just keep adding it as you come across it. (many universities have the course work and notes on line, often there are excellent reference sourses, many minicipalities have design manuals as well)
Google the terms you are looking for and put together your own book of knowledge that is applicable to the work you are doing.
Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng
Construction Project Management
From conception to completion
www.kitsonengineering.com
RE: General Civil Design Tips
RE: General Civil Design Tips
RE: General Civil Design Tips
any chance you have the files electronically? If so, you mind sharing the wealth?
Thanks
RE: General Civil Design Tips
Chances are the engineers in your own firm have their own files for quick reference. Ask them what the most useful stuff is and kindly request permission to borrow it to make copies for yourself.
There is alot of basic design guidance available free for the downloading from government agency websites (such as the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US Bureau of Reclamation, the US Federal Highway Administration), manufacturers, industry trade associations, etc., that you can print out the most relevant sections and keep them in a binder/file folder by your desk and add to it when you run across something new.
[Not to carp too much, but I see a fair number of posts on this site asking for references to papers or documentation that could have been had simply by using a decent internet search engine or two.]
Sometimes useful information becomes unavailable. SlideRuleEra generously maintains copies or excerpts from a number of hard-to-find or out-of-print sources on his website www.slideruleera.net .
Admittedly, copies of papers appearing in research/scholarly publications are more difficult to come by, but if your company needs the information, they should be willing to pony up for it.
Developing our personal set of reference material is an important component of how we engineers continue our professional development.
Jeff
Jeffrey T. Donville, PE
TTL Associates, Inc.
www.ttlassoc.com