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By Sustainable Building Industries Council
If you are interested in sustainable design and construction, but just don't know where to start, then you need this book.
Green Building Guidelines: Meeting the Demand for Low-energy, Resource-efficient Homes is designed for home builders and homebuyers who are new to high-performance home design. The handbook provides hundreds of tips, references and contacts in an easy-to-read format.
It explains how to apply siting and orientation, energy efficiency, passive- and active-solar strategies, natural ventilation, water conservation and appropriate building materials to home designs early in the process, so that the finished product is truly "green." Builders gain a key selling point and owners learn what goes into a high-performance home.
The text is organized to aquaint the reader with basic concepts and provide resources that offer more detailed information. At the end of each section, you will find "Interactions," which are references to other sections of the book describing design strategies, systems, components, or materials that may interact in important ways with the topic of the chapter.
For the first time, the book includes NAHB's Model Green Home Building Guidelines on a CD-ROM as a resource for local home building associations looking to start a green building program in their area. The new Fifth Edition also features a USGBC LEED for Homes rating system checklist, a discussion of the Whole Building Approach, and expanded acoustics coverage.
146 pages, 2007
Table of Contents
Forward
Builder's Matrix
Understanding Green and the Whole Building Approach
Chapter 1 Community and Site Planning
Land Development
Site Planning
Construction Waste Management
Chapter 2 Renewable Energy
Passive Solar Design Strategies
Solar Water Heating Systems
Solar Photovoltaic Strategies
Chapter 3 The Building Envelope
Chapter 4 Energy Efficiency
Heating and Air Conditioning Systems
Heating and Air Conditioning Equipment
Water Heating
Lighting
Chapter 5 Efficient Water Use
Indoor Water Use
Outdoor Water Use
Chapter 6 Indoor Environmental Quality
Chapter 7 Materials
Chapter 8 Operation and Maintenance
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