Solar Energy Books
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Manufacturer Chelsea Green
Product Type Solar Energy BookThe Green Self-Build Book
Whether you want a turf roof, solar-powered hot water, a straw bale home, or a super-insulated (and cost-efficient) house, you need to know the essential elements of the process. In The Green Self-Build Book, Jon Broome gives an overview of the different methods of sustainable and eco-friendly construction techniques for non-professionals.
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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 experiences.
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The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability
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 real-world guide.
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Manufacturer Chelsea Green
Product Type Solar Energy BookThe 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 efficient, nontoxic, soothing to the soul, kind to the environment, and pleasing to behold.
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Manufacturer Chelsea Green
Product Type Solar Energy BookThe 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 the U.S. is used in building houses, not to mention construction wastes and the huge amounts of resources used in the day-to-day operation of the "modern" household.
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Manufacturer McGraw-Hill
Product Type Solar Energy BookThe Passive Solar House, Revised and Expanded Edition
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 book are illustrated with practical case studies from the author's own work.
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Manufacturer Chelsea Green
Product Type Solar Energy BookThe 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 do-it-yourself homeowners.
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Manufacturer Chelsea Green
Product Type Solar Energy BookThe Rammed Earth House
The Rammed Earth House is an eye-opening 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 materials-earth-forward-thinking homebuilders can now create structures that set new standards for beauty, durability, and efficient use of natural resources.
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Manufacturer Chelsea Green
Product Type Solar Energy BookThe Solar House
Passive solar heating and passive cooling-approaches known as natural conditioning-provide 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 really understand the principles involved. Now Dan Chiras, author of the popular book The Natural House, brings those principles up to date for a new generation of solar enthusiasts.
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Manufacturer Chelsea Green
Product Type Solar Energy BookThe Sun-Inspired House
The Sun-Inspired House illustrates numerous house design concepts related to the sun. It also addresses the related subjects of passive solar, passive cooling, energy- efficient construction, green building, and sustainability. Over 50 house plans show examples of integrated concepts. Numerous examples, photos, and testimonials from homeowners describe the livability of these sunny and comfortable houses built in North America.
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Manufacturer Chelsea Green
Product Type Solar Energy BookThe 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.
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Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture CD-ROM
Mac and PC compatible, Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture CD-ROM gives you color photography and vector line graphics portable into AutoCAD and other design software, as well as data and calculations modules.
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Manufacturer McGraw-Hill
Product Type Solar Energy BookTime-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.
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Manufacturer McGraw Hill
Product Type Solar Energy BookTraditional 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 times.
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Manufacturer Taunton Press
Product Type Solar Energy BookYour 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, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly home. Brought to you by Alex Wilson -- the country's foremost expert on this topic -- Your Green Home offers a wealth of practical, up-to-the-minute information on every facet of green building.
