Car Park Designers' Handbook

The unique book shows practising car park engineers and architects how to design parking buildings that are efficient and user friendly, both above and below ground level. Featuring more than 75 3D scale drawings and explaining their individual strengths and weaknesses, this book is the only comprehensive reference for car park layout design. The book also covers the practical design of parking elements including ramps, stalls, and traffic aisles, and provides guidance on key issues including security, fire escape requirements, drainage, signage and barrier control. The new edition includes: - Issues surrounding provision for charging hybrid and electrically powered vehicles - a topic as yet poorly addressed in the literature. - Optimum entry and exit locations that affect layout. - 50% more drawings - including scale drawings that can be used as templates in the layout design process.

Written by consultants at Hill Cannon (UK) LLP with over 35 years of experience, this handbook provides advice and guidance on those aspects of planning and design that will enable car parks to perform their function efficiently and economically. It also covers aspects such as stall dimensions and circulation layouts in relation to the motorist.