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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive guide to building green on any budget.
According to conventional wisdom, building a green home is an expensive endeavor. The standard approach treats green as an add-on, tacking "premium" products, finishes, and equipment onto a traditional home design. As a result, many green home projects end up over budget or fail to achieve their environmental and performance goals.
Green Home Building explodes the myth that green homes have to...
90) This is a house
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Follows, in text and photographs, the building of a house from the architectural plans to moving-in day.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This book will show you how to identify, locate, and effectively use alternative building materials. You will learn about straw bale, cordwood, cob, adobe, rammed earth, light clay, pisé, earthbag, bamboo, earth-rammed tires, cork, wool carpeting, sod, compressed earth, earth plaster, beer cans, bottles, as well as living roofs and more. In addition, you will learn the costs and performance characteristics of these materials and construction techniques...
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