{"product_id":"geomatics-engineering-a-practical-guide-to-project-design-9781439817438","title":"Geomatics Engineering: A Practical Guide to Project Design","description":"\u003cp\u003eTraditionally  land surveyors experience years of struggle as they encounter the complexities of project planning and design processes in the course of professional employment or practice. Giving beginners a leg up and working professionals added experience  Geomatics Engineering: A Practical Guide to Project Design provides a practical guide to contemporary issues in geomatics professionalism  ethics  and design. It explores issues encountered during the project design and the request for proposal process commonly used for soliciting professional geomatics engineering services. Designed to develop critical thinking and problem solving  this book: reflects the natural progression of project design considerations  including how the planning  information gathering  design  scheduling  cost estimating  and proposal writing fit into the overall scheme of project design process presents the details of contemporary issues such as standards and specifications  professional and ethical responsibilities  and policy  social  and environmental issues that are pertinent to geomatics engineering projects demonstrates the important considerations when planning or designing new projects focuses on the proposal development process and shows how to put together a project cost estimate  including estimating quantities and developing unit and lump-sum costs Based on experience of past projects  the book identifies priority areas of attention for planning new projects. Presenting the nuts and bolts of geomatics projects  the author provides an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility  the impact of engineering solutions in a global and social context  as well as a host of other contemporary issues such as budgetary and scheduling constraints.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923739967541,"sku":"ByrdShop_143981743X","price":491.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781439817438.jpg?v=1794113313","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/geomatics-engineering-a-practical-guide-to-project-design-9781439817438","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}