Green Building Techniques & Green Construction
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Green Building Techniques

Green Building A to Z: Understanding the Language of Green Building
Discover The Fastest Growing Trend in Modern Construction -- Green Building
Green Building A to Z is an informative, technically accurate, and highly visual guide to green building, for both decision-makers and interested citizens. It begins with an introduction to the importance of green buildings and a brief history of the green building movement, outlines the benefits and costs of green buildings, and shows how you can influence the spread of green buildings. The book touches on key issues, such as enhancing water conservation, reducing energy use, and creating a conservation economy

Green Building: Project Planning & Cost Estimating
Information on Green Building Techniques, Design Concepts, Standards and Costs.
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/Managers… Now updated & expanded. Includes CostWorks Green Cost Data on CD-ROM.

Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies
Step-By-Step Guide to Building with Environmentally Friendly Construction Methods
Want to build responsibly, reduce waste, and help preserve the environment? Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies is your friendly, step-by-step guide to every facet of this Earth-friendly method of construction. Building a home—even a green home—uses plenty of resources and energy. This practical, hands-on book shows you how to build or remodel conscientiously, whether your dream home is a simple remodel or a brand-new multimillion-dollar mansion. You’ll start by identifying green materials and sizing up potential systems and construction sites. You’ll weigh the pros and cons of popular green building methods and identify opportunities for saving money in the long run. Need to find some green professionals to assist you in your venture? We’ll help you do that, too

Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification
A Hands-On Guide to Designing Environmentally Friendly Buildings with Green Building Materials
This excellent hands-on 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, product specification, and construction processes. You'll also learn just what green building materials are, where you can find them, and how you can use them effectively. This edition includes updated information on LEED requirements and how to integrate them into the specifications process and new sections on commissioning and on construction waste management.

Green Building Products
The Greenspec Guide to Residential Building Materials Covers Over 1400 Products
Interest in sustainable, green building practices is greater than ever. Whether concerned about allergies, energy costs, old-growth forests, or durability and long-term value, homeowners and builders are looking for ways to ensure that their homes are healthy, safe, beautiful, and efficient. In these pages are descriptions and manufacturer contact information for more than 1,400 environmentally preferable products and materials. All phases of residential construction, from sitework to flooring to renewable energy, are covered. Products are grouped by function, and each chapter begins with a discussion of key environmental considerations and what to look for in a green product. Over 40 percent revised, this updated edition includes over 120 new products.

Green Building Through Integrated Design
Comprehensive, Illustrated Guide to The Process of Constructing a Certified Green Building
Offers expert insight into tackling various projects, from concept and design, to unifying members of the team, to constructing high-performance buildings on time and within budget. The book features interviews with key players to illuminate the integrated design process, including relevant issues, difficult challenges, and problem-solving techniques. Green Building Through Integrated Design is the most complete overview of green building project delivery methods available, and is a thorough blueprint that every member of the project team will find invaluable.

Green Careers: Building Green - DVD
Learn About Career Opportunities in the Field of Green Building
This program presents an overview of green job opportunities in the building trades where there is a high demand for trained professionals, designers, and workers to help improve the efficiency of commercial and residential buildings through better design of new buildings and smart improvements to existing structures. A job in a "green" construction trade can enable a young person, with a minimal amount of training, to get a foot in the door of the new green economy

Green Careers: Green Design - DVD
Learn About Design Career Opportunities in the Field of Green Building
In this program, we'll explore the exciting race underway to design greener products of all sorts. You can work toward a green career as an architect, interior designer, industrial engineer, or product designer within a myriad of businesses. This is a contest that will reward those who can envision or help create the "greener mousetraps" of tomorrow. Jobs profiled in this program include: Architect, Interior Designer, Consultant, and Landscape Designer.

Green From The Ground Up - A Builder's Guide
Building Homes with Energy Efficient "Green" Building Techniques
A must-have reference for contractors who want to remain competitive, and a remarkable resource for homeowners who require the clearest and most thorough green building information available. Green construction is the building trend of the decade. In direct response to the growing demand for sustainable, healthy, and energy-efficient homes, it provides the best proven methods of new and remodeled green construction beginning with down-to-earth explanations of green building basics and moving on to site planning, materials selection, energy efficiency, and indoor air quality -- detailing every step in design and construction, from framing to finishes.

Green Home Improvement
Over 65 Green Home Improvement Projects That Will Save Energy
Expert advice helps you zero in on the most do-able, highest payback green projects for your home. Everyone is talking about “green” living — and there are a lot of good reasons to go green. Fuel costs are skyrocketing. Water shortages are spreading. Natural resources are being depleted. Illness is increasingly linked to building materials. Here are 65 projects you can do – many of them yourself and at low cost – that will make a difference in your living expenses, health, and comfort – and help the environment.

Insulate and Weatherize: Build Like A Pro
Expert Advice on Insulating and Weatherizing Residential Homes
In this complete do-it-yourself guide to home insulation and weatherization, engineer Bruce Harley offers solutions that will make your home more comfortable in all seasons. Using his troubleshooting advice, you’ll be able to identify the hidden energy wasters and moisture problems that can do serious damage in your home. Clear explanations, hundreds of photos, and detailed illustrations will guide you step by step through the process of upgrading both structures and systems. Implementing even a few of these sensible solutions can result in real savings in your energy bills.

Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies For Success
Learn How To Market Your Green Building Services To Succeed In Business
Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success presents all the information key decision-makers need to respond to the fast-growing market for green buildings, design and construction services and products. Completely updated, revised and expanded from the author's previous works, this book is the one resource you need to succeed in the green building marketplace

Photovoltaic Systems
Comprehensive Guide to Design, Installation & Evaluation of PV Systems
Photovoltaic Systems is a newly updated, comprehensive guide to the design, installation, and evaluation of residential and commercial photovoltaic (PV) systems. The textbook covers the principles of photovoltaics and how to effectively incorporate PV systems into stand-alone or interconnected electrical systems. The content includes system advantages and disadvantages, site evaluation, component operation, system design and sizing, and installation requirements and recommended practices.

Solar Power Your Home For Dummies
Save On Energy Costs By Adding Solar Energy Components To Your Home
Want to take advantage of solar power in your home? Whether you’re looking to save on your energy costs by adding a few solar components or you want to build a solar-powered house from the ground up, Solar Power Your Home For Dummies takes the mystery out of this energy source and shows you how to put it to work for you! This friendly, hands-on guide is packed with tips for making your home more energy-efficient though solar power—and helping the planet at the same time. You’ll see how to survey your home to determine your current household energy efficiency and use, and evaluate where solar power would best benefit you. You’ll also calculate what the return on your investment will be before you make any decisions. Once you’ve decided on a project, you’ll see whether it’s best to hire a contractor or do it yourself. We leave no stone unturned

Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery
Detailed Guide to Sustainable Construction for Design and Construction Professionals
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 the process of developing commercial and institutional high-performance green buildings in today's marketplace. In this revised edition, Charles Kibert delivers a detailed, and passionate, overview of the entire process of green building, covering the theory, history, state of the industry, and best practices in green building.

Sustainable Residential Interiors
An Illustrated Guide to Green Design Strategies for Residential Interiors
Issues of sustainability and environmental consciousness have been increasingly important to designers of residential interiors. With solutions for the design practitioner, this book covers topics such as indoor air quality, identifying low-impact materials, conserving energy and water, and support of construction teams in reducing waste, Sustainable Residential Interiors provides designers with the necessary information and tools to integrate environmentally responsible design into their practice. Sustainable Residential Interiors takes readers through an integrated design process, showing how sustainable principles and practices can be applied on virtually every level of interior design

The Benefits of Building Green - DVD
Introduces Readers To The Benefits of Green Building
DVD Introducing Viewers to the benefits of building green when constructing new homes. Teaches how to save energy, choose sustainable resources and use healthy products in residential construction.

The Green Building Revolution
Introduces Readers To The Basics of Green Building
The Green Building Revolution introduces readers to the basics of green building and to the projects and people that are advancing this movement. With interviews and case studies, it does more than simply report on the revolution; it shows readers why and how to start thinking about designing, building, and operating high performance, environmentally aware (LEED-certified) buildings on conventional budgets

Your Green Home
Learn the Scope and Principles of Green Building
More and more homeowners today want houses that are healthy to live in and cause minimal damage to the environment. That's what green building is all about. Your Green Home is written for homeowners planning a new home-whether you are working with an architect or builder, or serving as your own general contractor. Intended to improve the overall environmental performance of new houses being built, the book sets out to answer some of the big-picture questions relating to having a home designed and built-and getting what you want.

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