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Advanced Energy Design Guide For Small Office Buildings
New Design Guide Delivers Maximum Energy Savings For developing energyefficient buildings, the Advanced Energy Design Guide provides a sensible approach by including practical products and readilyavailable, “offtheshelf” technology. The Guide offers you all the tools you
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Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods
This is the first comprehensive guide to combining traditional natural materials and modern construction methods! From adobe to straw bales, traditional building materials are being adapted to meet coderequired standards for health and safety in
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Analysis and Design of Shallow and Deep Foundations
Analysis and Design of Shallow and Deep Foundations is a significant new resource that gives details on the engineering principles used in the analysis and design of both shallow and deep, loadbearing foundations for a variety of building and structural types. Its unique presentation focuses on
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ASHRAE GreenGuide: The Design, Construction, and Operation of Sustaina
The ASHRAE GreenGuide provides guidance to designers of HVAC&R systems in how to participate effectively on design teams charged with producing green buildings. It also covers green design techniques applicable to related technical disciplines, such as plumbing and lighting, and it ad
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Be a Successful Green Builder
Filled with environmentally friendly methods that reduce the impact of housing on natural areas, Be a Successful Green Builder contains everything needed to get started in the green building business and develop a thriving enterprise. Successful contractor and bestselling au
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Be A Successful Green Land Developer
Bestselling author R. Dodge Woodson brings the growing number of options available for developing land without doing harm to natural areas. In this comprehensive guide, he explains how such building techniques will increase sales, improve the bottom line, and help sustain the environment. /p
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Biophilic Design : The Theory, Science and Practice of Bringing Buildi
Biophilic design is a new approach to sustainable development that incorporates the positive experience of nature into the design of the built environment. The definitive guide to this emerging practice of biophilic design, this book contains original and timely contributions from worldrenowned sci
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Build a Green Small Business - Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur
Written for both experienced entrepreneurs and business novices, Green Your Small Business outfits you with expert howto advice and guidance on starting, building, and growing a green business. Cooney walks you through the green business basics, from market research and financing to handling key
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Building Construction Illustrated, 4th Edition
For over thirty years, Building Construction Illustrated has offered an outstanding introduction to the principles of building construction. Now this Fourth Edition has been expertly revised and updated to address the latest advances in materials, building technology, and code requirements.
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Contractors Guide to Green Building Construction: Management, Project
Written for contractors and endorsed by the Associated General Contractors of America Written specifically for contractors, this howto book enables you to meet the challenges of green building construction. You'll discover how constructing environmentally friendly, sustainable
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Cut Your Energy Bills Now
The New York Times featured an article with Bruce Harley, author of Cut Your Energy Bills Now. Purchase your copy of the book today to save money and to make your home more comfortable and green. During this interview Harley commented o
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Diary of an Eco-Builder
Will Anderson's monthly features in The Independent have an enthusiastic following readers are following his progress from finding a plot, getting planning permission and building himself a stunning contemporary eco home, which mirrors the finetuned ecology of a tree. Drawing on hi
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Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design
You'll find clear instructions on how to design, build and use a green sustainable architecture in Ecodesign. Author Ken Yeang will show you how to produce and maintain ecosystemlike structures and systems whose content and outputs not only integrate benignly with the natural environ
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Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design
Saving the environment from continued devastation by our built environment is the single most important issue for tomorrow, feeding into our postmillennial fears that this third millennium will indeed be our last. Ken Yeang details how and why our current design approach and perception of arch
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Ecohouse 2
Ecohouse 2 tells you how to design low energy, environmentally friendly buildings. It provides the foundations for building design in a warming world, and shows how to take the first step towards the zerocarbon emission buildings of tomorrow. Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awa
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Ecohouse, 3rd Edition
Now in its 3rd edition, the bestselling Ecohouse continues to be both a technical guide and an inspiration for thousands of architects, designers and ecobuilders all over the world. As the need to slow climate change becomes increasingly urgent, growing numbers of people are looking to dramatica
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Elderhouse
The Baby Boomers are moving through the culture like the snake that swallowed the elephant. We've passed through the hippie, yippie, and yuppie stages, bringing with us the lion's share of the nation's economic activity. Now we are looking at our soontobe empty nests and getting ready to do
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Emerald Architecture
Turn to Emerald Architecture for a fullcolor collection of 24 indepth case studies of sustainable structures and facilities. Packed with more than 200 designinspiring photos and illustrations, this beautiful architectural guide presents design data and specifications from
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Energy-Efficient Building
Energyefficient homes aren't just more economical, they're also more comfortable. This collection of 29 articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine will teach you how to make your home more energy efficient with information on materials and techniques that can make a difference in how mu
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Energy: Use Less - Save More
Did you know . . . Heating and cooling account for about 56% of the energy use in a typical home Energyefficient light bulbs last about 12 times longer than ordinary bulbs, and consume about 1/5 of the energy If we all turned off our TVs and other gadget
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Environmentally Responsible Design: Green and Sustainable Design for I
At last, there's an authoritative guide to help interior designers apply green building and sustainability applications to their environments. Sustainable Interior Design expertly introduces the principles of environmentally responsible design for interior environments. This useful reference
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Form Based Codes : A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipaliti
A comprehensive, illustrative guide to FormBased Codes This volume describes in clear argument and significant detail the issues and techniques associated with the design and management of FormBased Codes as an antidote to zoning and sprawl. Reading it and putting it to practice
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Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building: Principles
A rich source book covering the breadth of environmental building, Sustainable Building Design Principles and Practices introduces the student and practitioner to the history, theory and technology of green building. Using an active learning approach, the concepts of sustainable archi
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Going Solar
Going Solar contains everything that a budding or experienced solar enthusiast could wish for. By distilling thousands of years of history and knowledge into one book, Tomm Stanley brings together the work of pioneering solar designers, some of the greatest scientists that the world
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Green BIM : Successful Sustainable Design with Building Information Mo
Written by architects whose awardwinning sustainable design firm greened both the White House and the Pentagon, this is the first book to show how to successfully create sustainable designs using Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology Discusses BIM and susta
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Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies
Green building involves designing and constructing buildings and homes to reduce energy use, conserve water, improve indoor air quality, and reduce reliance on nonrenewable natural resources. Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies provides an introduction to every facet of green building, from st
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Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specificati
This excellent handson guide to designing environmentally friendly buildings those made from materials that preserve the earth's natural legacy for future generations is written by two nationally known experts on the subject. You'll find practical information on green product selection, pr
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Green Building Products
Since green building is such a quicklyevolving industry, it can be tough to find reliable uptotheminute information on the many products that go into environmentally sound design and construction. That's why green building guru Alex Wilson has put together the ultimate guide to environment
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Green Building Through Integrated Design
This comprehensive, wellillustrated guide covers the entire process of building a certified green building. It offers expert insight into tackling various projects, from concept and design, to unifying members of the team, to constructing highperformance buildings on time and within budge
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Green Building: Project Planning & Estimating, 2nd Edition
This new 2nd edition has been completely updated with the latest in green building technologies, design concepts, standards, and costs. Includes Means’ Green Building CostWorks CD at no additional cost. A Unique Cost Reference for Architects, Engineers, Contractors, & Building Owners/Ma
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Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate
Green Development is good for business. Tenants, owners, purchasers, and brokers are all becoming more sophisticated and are realizing the financial and social benefits of green product. Gerald Hines, Chairman of Hines. Environmentally responsible real estate development makes dolla
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Green from the Ground Up
Green construction is the building trend of the decade. In direct response to the growing demand for sustainable, healthy, and energyefficient homes, David Johnston and Scott Gibson present the most forwardthinking theories and the best proven methods of new and remodeled green construction
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Green Guide to Specification, 4th Edition
Like its predecessors, this fourth edition of The Green Guide to Specification provides designers and specifiers with easytouse guidance on how to make the best environmental choices when selecting construction materials and components. The Green Guide to Specification provi
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Green Home Improvement
Over 65 green home improvement projects that will save energy, cut utility bills, boost home comfort, and help the environment. Expert advice helps you zero in on the most doable, highest payback green projects for your home.Everyone is talking about “green” living and there are a lo
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Green Office Buildings, A Practical Guide to Development
Extremely practical, this howto book gives you the information for costeffective development of an environmentally sustainable office building. Learn about the business case for green buildings, and the nuts and bolts of site planning, design, sustainable construction, facilities management, fin
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Green Roof Construction and Maintenance
New in the GreenSource series, this book presents all of the information needed to skillfully design, construct, and maintain green roofsbenefiting buildings and the environment. A practical guide to this emerging trend in the sustainability movement, Green Roof Construc
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Green Roof Systems: A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction o
Over Structures goes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as important public space, over structure. It offers brief coverage of the entire process, including planning and collaboration, and focuses on the technical aspect
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Green Roofs Ecological Design and Construction
These are a few of the many reasons why green roofs are sprouting in cities around the world. Examine possibilities for citywide green roof development through 335 color photographs, 40 case studies of exemplary green roof building projects, and 7 municipal case studies describing green roofs in Be
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Green Your Home
Available September 21st, 2009. Purchase now and you are not charged until your order is shipped!The economic benefits of going green have become increasingly more convincing with every new innovation in energy creation and consumption. The second book in the
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Greenbook Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction 2006 -
By popular demand, the entire 2006 Edition of the Greenbook is now available on CDROM! For over 30 years, the Greenbook has been the accepted source for public works specifications for hundreds of counties, municipalities and public works agencies in California and throughout the nati
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Greenbook Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction, 2006
This manual has been the standard used by the fastgrowing public works construction market for almost 30 years. The 2006 Edition has been updated to include the most recently tested and accepted methods of installation, techniques, and technology. The GREENBOOK Standard Specifications fo
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Greenbook Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction, 2009
This takeitanywhere companion makes it easy for professionals in the field to check specifications, installation techniques, material requirements, and much more. It is carefully edited to provide all the essential data that most likely needs to be checked in the field. Over 300 pages, pack
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Greenbook: Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction 2009
The Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction, popularly known as the “Greenbook”, was originally published in 1967. The 2009 Edition is the 15th edition of this book, which is updated and republished every three years. The original edition of the Greenbook wa
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Greening Your Home
A vital conservation and moneysaving tool, Greening Your Home provides helpful information that will help you select sustainable green options that match your specific needs for every system in your house. This “onestop” guide provides the latest information on systems and materials
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High-Performance Building
What really makes a highperformance, energyefficient building? How do we judge the success of a sustainable building? We shouldn't just reward good intentions based on the building design, argues Vidar Lerum in High Performance Building we must look at the evidence of the actual perfor
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Illustrated Construction Dictionary, Condensed Edition, 2nd Edition
This condensed version of the Illustrated Construction Dictionary features the latest in construction methods, materials, and equipment. Recognized in the industry as the best resource of its kind, this second edition has been further enhanced with updates to existing terms and the addition of hund
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Inside the Civano Project (GreenSource Books)
Available September 18th, 2009. Purchase now and you are not charged until your order is shipped!This new GreenSource book offers a complete look at Civano, the nation's largest sustainable mixeduse community located in the southeast part of Tucso
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Intelligent Skins
Looking to the future, Intelligent Skins sets out the principles for the design of the intelligent building envelope. It highlights an exciting new approach to the area, where the fabric of the building responds to external changes and internal demands. The prime objective is to control internal env
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Introduction to Architectural Science
By introducing the basics of architectural science, this book is an ideal reference that provides an understanding of the physical basis of architectural design. The knowledge gained from this book equips the reader with the tools for realizing the full potential of the good intentions of sustainabl
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Introduction to Landscape Design, 2nd Edition
This Second Edition of Introduction to Landscape Design offers even broader coverage of the environmental, human, technological, and aesthetic issues associated with landscape design than the first edition. Beginning with the way we
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Land Development, 10th Edition
Land developers know that success hinges on knowledge, planning, and experience. Whether you are new to the field or are looking to brush up your knowledge, Land Development is your comprehensive resource to this demanding and exciting industry. Packed with photos, illustrations, checklist
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Modern Sustainable Residential Design: A Guide for Design Professional
This book offers lessons for architects and interior designers who want to conceptualize and implement sustainable design strategies in Modern residential design. Recognized residential architect and educator William J. Carpenter offers solutions for incorporating sustainable aspect into a ho
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Natural Home Heating
Natural Home Heating is the first comprehensive guide to heating your home with renewable energy sources. Greg Pahl offers a wellorganized, easytounderstand tour of all available renewable homeheating options, including wood, pellet, corn and grainfired stoves, fireplaces, furna
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Perfect Power: How the Microgrid Revolution Will Unleash Cleaner, Gree
Electric usage is rising. Fuel costs are rocketing. Blackouts are happening more frequently. Why? Because our electrical power systembuilt on a vast network of resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, water, and coalhas become woefully outdated, increasingly expensive, and dangero
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Profit from Building Green
Develop an effective green home building business with the NAHB Research Center’s resident expert, Jeannie Leggett Sikora. She has combed through hundreds of annual contest entries and talked with past award winners to develop specific examples and triedandtrue techniques to give home
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Site Engineering for Landscape Architects, Web Site, 5th Edition
Site Engineering is the text of choice in many site engineering, planning, and construction courses. It introduces the principles and techniques of basic site engineering for grading, drainage, earthwork, and road alignment. The fifth edition, revised to stay uptodate with current tech
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Site Planning and Design Handbook
Site Planning and Design Handbook bridges the gap between the traditional methods of site planning and design and our growing awareness of sustainability issues. Meticulously written and heavily illustrated with construction details and graphic standards, the Handbook offers thorough, detailed co
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Site Planning and Design Handbook, 2nd Edition
Incorporating sound environmental considerations into traditional site design process contributes to better site planning and design. This authoritative guide combines established approaches to site planning with sustainable practices and increased environmental sensitivity in site work. The
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SMACNA - IAQ Guidelines for Occupied Buildings Under Construction, 2nd
The SMACNA IAQ Guidelines for Occupied Buildings Under Construction, 2nd edition ANSI/SMACNA 008 2008, is intended as an authoritative source for providing project management guidance in maintaining satisfactory indoor air quality (IAQ) of occupied buildings undergoing renovation or construction.
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SMACNA - IAQ Guidelines for Occupied Buildings Under Construction, 2nd
The SMACNA IAQ Guidelines for Occupied Buildings Under Construction, 2nd edition ANSI/SMACNA 008 2008, is intended as an authoritative source for providing project management guidance in maintaining satisfactory indoor air quality (IAQ) of occupied buildings undergoing renovation or construction.
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Solar House : A Guide for the Solar Designer
Covering the full life span of the project, from siting issues through specific design features to maintenance of the property and equipment, this is a comprehensive guide to designing, planning and building a solar house. The author uses his experience of living in a solar house to inform the reade
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Solar Power in Building Design
Design, Implement, and Audit the Most EnergyEfficient, CostEffective Solar Power Systems for Any Type of Building! Solar Power in Building Design is a complete guide to designing, implementing, and auditing energyefficient, costeffective solar power systems fo
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Sun, Wind & Light: Architectural Design Strategies, 2nd Edition
How to design buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, light with the sky, and move into the future using onsite renewable resources. Developed for rapid use during schematic design, this book clarifies relationships between form and energy and gives designers tools for designing s
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Sustainable Commercial Interiors
In Sustainable Commercial Interiors, coauthors Penny Bonda, a noted expert on interior design and sustainability, and Katie Sosnowchik, an interior design editor and innovator, share their passion for environmental advocacy while offering designers and architects the technical knowledge
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Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, 2nd Edit
The green building movement has come a long way in a short time. Responding to this exponential growth, with its attendant technological as well as aesthetic developments, Sustainable Construction Green Building Design and Deliver, Second Edition guides construction and design professionals through
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Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning
Written by an architect who is an expert in sustainable design and is a former chair of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE), this book will be a primer on green and sustainable design. It will define issues of sustainable design, illustrate conceptual ideas and case studies, and provide an
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Sustainable Design: The Science of Sustainability and Green Engineerin
This introduction to concepts of sustainability and green engineering derived from sound scientific principles is the first book to present the scientific principles at the heart of sustainable design. From thermodynamics to fluid dynamics, computational chemistry to models, the principles in this b
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Sustainable Energy Systems in Architectural Design
This is the only comprehensive, practical resource for understanding, designing, and installing all major types of renewable energy systems. Find workable solutions for a variety of building types, including commercial, public and residential structures. 249 pp. Technical concepts an
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Sustainable Facilities
Let a Team of Leading Architects Take You through 20 LargeScale, Sustainable Facilities Designed with Green Methods and Materials! A vital working tool for all building professionals interested in green architecture and construction, Sustainable Facilities pre
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Sustainable Healthcare Architecture
The authors are recognized as national experts in the design of hospitals and other health care facilities that are sustainable. Both authors are engaged in the development of the Green Guide for Health Care 2.0 Pilot (gghc.org) that launched in late 2004. A new rating system and policy, LEED Appl
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Sustainable Residential Interiors
Issues of sustainability and environmental consciousness have been increasingly important to designers of residential interiors. A leading firm that has built its expertise in addressing environmental concerns in residential interiors, Associates III presents solutions for the design prac
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Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature
Written by the chair of the LEEDNeighborhood Development (LEEDND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to Sustainable Urbanismthe emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and e
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Teach Yourself Saving Energy in the Home
Teach Yourself Saving Energy in the Home offers you straightforward, achievable costcutting and energy saving strategies. It gives you various ways to save energy in the home, even if it's just a rented property, with practical advice on heating, hot and cold water, electricity and appliances, s
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The Ecological Design Handbook
The best ATOZ book available on green design. Covers everything from alternative energy source hardware to design...aesthetics...permaculture...energysaving retrofitting...interior air quality... hybrid construction materials...cohousing...bio
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The Green Building Bottom Line
As any builder knows, cost estimation and reality are often two very different things. The Green Building Bottom Line makes the case for green building by providing the insights and data that demonstrate the true costs and benefits of building green. It's a “why to” and a
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The Green Home : A Decision Making Guide for Owners and Builders
Available July 9th, 2009. Purchase now and you are not charged until your order is shipped!What does a green home look like? What are its characteristics, and how can you ensure that you meet the highest green standards within a given budget? The answers
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The Green Self-Build Book
Whether you want a turf roof, solarpowered hot water, a straw bale home, or a superinsulated (and costefficient) house, you need to know the essential elements of the process. In The Green SelfBuild Book, Jon Broome gives an overview of the different methods of sustainable and eco
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The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design, 2nd Edition
This practical reference guide on the integration of sustainable, high performance design covers major sustainability issues on an introductory level. Newly updated, this edition emphasizes the project process, cost implications, case studies, and lessons learned from HOK's wide range of project
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The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practic
Written for architects and the design and construction team, this is a comprehensive guide to an integrated design process to create more sustainable buildings. The book is organized in a sequence similar to that employed by conventional design, so that it can be utilized as a realworld guid
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The Natural House
The Natural House is a tour of the construction, costs, and pros and cons of fourteen natural building methods. Straw Bale, Rammed Earth, Cob, Cordwood, Adobe, Earthbags, Papercrete, Earthships…whatever the method, the common goal is to create a house that is economical, energy effic
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The New Ecological Home
Shelter, like many other elements of human existence, comes at an extraordinary cost to our planet and its inhabitants. In the U.S. alone, construction of 1.2 million new homes a year results in a massive drain on Earth's natural resource base. Today, nearly 60 percent of all timber cut in th
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The New Urbanism Toward an Architecture of Community
The move to liveable communitiesideal small towns and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to placeis on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new small towns in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. Yo
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The Passive Solar House, Revised and Expanded Edition
For the past ten years The Passive Solar House has offered proven techniques for building homes that heat and cool themselves, using readily available materials and methods familiar to all building contractors and many doityourself homeowners. True to this innovative, straig
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The Rammed Earth House
The Rammed Earth House is an eyeopening example of how the most dramatic innovations in home design and construction frequently have their origins in the distant past. By rediscovering the most ancient of all building materialsearthforwardthinking homebuilders can now create structu
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The Solar Electric House
This is the definitive book on solar electric systems for home use. Strong, who has designed more than one hundred photovoltaic (PV) systems, covers all aspects of PVs, from the history andeconomics of solar power to the nuts and bolts of systems and equipment. 288 pp. The Solar Electric Hous
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The Solar House
Passive solar heating and passive coolingapproaches known as natural conditioningprovide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders rea
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The Sun-Inspired House
A SunInspired house is Sunny, open, and creative Warm in winter and cool in summer Integral to green & sustainable design principles Complementary to active solar & zeroenergy Fuelefficient and practical, yet elegant li
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The Woodland House
Full of stunning color photographs, this book is a visual guide to how Ben built his outstandingly beautiful home in the woods. It is also a practical manual and the story of a man realizing his lifelong dream to build one of the most sustainable and beautiful homes in Britain. Ben's a
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Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture CD-ROM
Mac and PC compatible, TimeSaver Standards for Landscape Architecture CDROM gives you color photography and vector line graphics portable into AutoCAD and other design software, as well as data and calculations modules. Pick up this dynamic tool from Nicholas Dines and Kyle Brown and get instant e
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Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design
This important addition to the Time Saver Standards series is an entirely new, comprehensive, meticulously researched compendium of every aspect of the physical design of cities and other urban places including communities and civic and public places. TimeSaver Standards for Urban Design
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Traditional Construction Patterns
The rise of the New Urbanism in building design has brought with it a return to traditional construction techniques. Traditional Construction Patterns Design and Detail Rules of Thumb, provides instant access to the tips of the trade that will keep your work on budget and in step with the
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Your Green Home
Are you thinking about building a new home? Or just beginning to put together a plan? Maybe you're a builder or designer and the lion's share of your clients are now interested in building green. Here's a single book that delivers everything you need to know about building a safe, energyeff
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