About This Book
Pipe & Excavation Contracting by Dave Roberts is a practical guide for both aspiring and experienced underground utility contractors, published by Craftsman Book Company. It covers every aspect of managing and executing trenching, pipe laying, and earthmoving projects, both in the field and in the office.
What the Book Covers
- Business Management: Estimating and bidding jobs, calculating overhead and profit, handling bonds, and avoiding common business pitfalls.
- Field Techniques: Reading plans, interpreting grade stakes, setting line and grade using lasers or transits, and managing challenges such as groundwater and rock.
- Safety and Equipment: Up-to-date guidance on modern trenching machinery, shoring, compaction methods, and jobsite safety requirements.
- Licensing: Widely accepted as an approved reference manual for contractor licensing exams in multiple states, including through providers such as PSI Services LLC.
Practice Tests Using This Book
This book is required or recommended for 3 licensing exams. We've written 223 practice questions directly from this material, each one citing the chapter and section it comes from.