Personal Dock Building - Waterfront Development Notes for Residential Docks. Good dock construction blends positive material features with environmental awareness and easy installation. This is a dock building guide for personal property owners. Whether building your own dock or selecting a contractor, this is an invaluable reference. Updated to include clean, safe and sustainable waterfront building practices and checklists for materials . . . more.

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The Dock Manual is the only book devoted exclusively to residential docks. Written by award-winning author Max Burns, author of the best selling Cottage Water Systems and long-time contributor to Cottage Life Magazine, The Dock Manual covers all aspects of residential docks, including assessing your shoreline, choosing the right dock for your needs, repairs, winterizing, ramps, boat lifts, marine railways, construction tips and techniques, plus 10 complete plans with lists of required material.

 

 

Dock Designs Volume I - This book gets right to the point and provides the reader with the information they need in order to: identify their lakefront property, select the best style dock that matches the intended use, mounting and anchoring their structure, and incorporate existing structures into their waterfront design. The book includes detailed blueprints of ten of the most popular dock configurations. Including floating docks, stationary docks, sectional docks and swim rafts. Each design includes a bill of materials and step by step assembly instructions. Practical construction techniques and valuable pointers roll off of every page.

Dock Designs, Volume 2 - This book is the complete reference that will lead you through the design and fabrication of a fantastic new dock. The chapters are presented in a logical order that will help the landowner minimize costly mistakes. Lake level fluctuations, soil conditions, anchoring, materials, hardware, and assembly techniques are all covered. Detailed designs for both stationary and floating docks make the construction phase easy.

Green Building: Project Planning & Cost Estimating The demand for green, or sustainable, building is growing rapidly, as municipalities, government and private owners are now requiring energy efficiencies—and as owners discover that a healthy, resource-efficient building more than pays for itself in dramatically reduced energy costs and better health and productivity.