Parking Structures provides a single-source reference for parking structure designers; builders; and owners. This third edition is still the only such book. It addresses how to select the best functional and structural designs for a given situation; ensure long-term durability; design for easy maintenance; decide on the number and placement of entrances and exits; design an easily understood wayfinding system; design for ADA compliance; plan for internal auto and pedestrian traffic circulation; select the most effective and energy efficient lighting system; avoid the most common design and construction pitfalls; provide for adequate patron safety and security; carry out needed repairs; and extend the parking structure life. Parking Structures addresses all the major issues related to parking garages. It is an essential reference for parking structure owners; structural engineers; architects; contractors; and other professionals. New in the third edition: This third edition of Parking Structures includes new material on metric dimensions and recommendations for functional design globally; new research on flow capacity and queuing at parking entry/exits; an entirely new chapter on planning for a new parking structure; including cost issues and alternatives to structure construction; pedestrian considerations; safety in parking facilities; plazas above parking structures; an expanded chapter on seismic design; seismic retrofit; life cycle cost analysis; and upgrades to existing structures.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. 5 Stars; but Im a Shakespeare fanaticBy John Michael AlbertA director on the west coast recommended this book to me. For some reason; every theater even remotely interested in doing Shakespeare seems to be doing The Taming of the Shrew this year. What a treat! The first play (50 pp); anonymous; a quarto-sized best seller in its day; and much shorter than Shakespeares; is a real revelation. It could pass for a "cut and paste" for Shakespeares; the same way that the "bad quarto" relates to the First Folio of Hamlet. EXCEPT; it is so clearly dependent on Marlowes Tamburlaine (!!!) for images and turns of phrase; and gives the frame story a much stronger part. Then there is the familiar Shakespeare (80 pp) which we all know and love--guiltily of course in the post feminist decades. And finally; there is the play by Shakespeares sometime co-author; John Fletcher (110 pp). Written as a sort of comic response to the Shakespeare; where a woman gives Petruchio his comeuppance; it is SO long and SO long winded. Larded with ten times the sexual innuendo as Shakespeare (which I didnt think was possible). Id love to see it just to see how to make it work. But only after someone explained all the jokes. A great book for fanatics and a lot of fun.