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Essential Sustainable Home Design
A Complete Guide to Goals, Options, and the Design Process
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This book is best suited for owner-builders, sustainable building contractors, and anyone interested in creating an eco-friendly and energy-efficient home through a well-informed, step-by-step process.
Essential Sustainable Home Design walks homebuilders through designing an environmentally friendly home. Covering what makes a building green, a criteria matrix to guide design, material, and systems decisions, working with code officials, and choosing sustainable materials to keep the project goals on track from start to finish.
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Design your own sustainable home
Many people dream of building a beautiful, environmentally friendly home. But until now there has been no systematic guide to help potential builders work through the complete process of imagining, planning, designing, and building their ideal, sustainable home.
Essential Sustainable Home Design walks potential homebuilders through the process starting with key concepts, principles, and a project vision that will guide the house to completion.
Coverage includes:
- How to clarify your ideas and create a practical pathway to achieving your dream
- A criteria matrix to guide design, material, and systems decisions
- Creating a strong, integrated design team and working with professionals and code officials to keep the project on track from start to finish
- Key building science concepts that make for a high-performance, durable building
- Primer on building logistics, material sourcing, and protocols to ensure that the initial vision for the project comes to fruition
- One-page summaries and ratings of popular sustainable building materials and system options
Ideal for owner-builders and sustainable building contractors working with clients aiming to design and build a sustainable home.
Chris Magwood has designed and built some of the most innovative, sustainable buildings in North America, including the first off-grid, straw bale home in Ontario. He is co-founder and director of the Endeavour Centre for Innovative Building and Living and co-editor of the Sustainable Building Essentials series. Chris is the author of Essential Prefab Straw Bale Construction, Essential Hempcrete Construction, Straw Bale Details, More Straw Bale Building, and Making Better Buildings.
Series: Sustainable Building Essentials Series
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780865718500
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 July 2017
Country: United States
Imprint: New Society Publishers
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 216.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 415g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Chris Magwood has designed and built some of the most innovative, sustainable buildings in North America. He created the Sustainable Building Design and Construction program at Fleming College in 2005, and co-founded and directs the Endeavour Centre for Innovative Building and Living. Chris is the author of 3 previous books on sustainable building including Straw Bale Details and More Straw Bale Building .
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