Building Your Own Home

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A Comprehensive Guide for Owner-builders

By George Wilkie

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Building Your Own Home by George Wilkie is a practical guide for self-builders focused on creating environmentally efficient homes. The revised edition emphasises sustainable building practices, detailing energy-saving power sources, water conservation, recycling materials, and efficient heating and lighting systems. It covers essential factors such as house orientation, insulation, ventilation, and compliance with local environmental regulations, helping builders reduce their carbon footprint while enhancing comfort.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book is ideal for prospective home builders, environmentally conscious individuals, and those interested in sustainable construction methods. It serves well for readers seeking hands-on advice to meet modern energy and environmental standards in their self-built homes.

Home builders can contribute in many ways to reduce the use of products and processes that convert solid and liquid carbon containing materials into gaseous carbon. This guide includes the practical steps that owner builders need to take to ensure their building meets the aims of local regulations in environmental efficiency.

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Home builders can contribute in many ways to reduce the use of products and processes that convert solid and liquid carbon containing materials into gaseous carbon. Everyone is now aware of the advantages of correctly oriented, well insulated houses with sensible ventilation and comfort systems.

In this revised edition of Building Your Own Home, George Wilkie updates and adds a new section on energy and environmental efficiency. An increasing key factor in building homes now is the environmental efficiency of the building function and its materials. The aim in many local authorities is to mitigate against factors that reduce the quality of the natural environment.

This revised edition includes in detail the practical steps that owner builders need to take to ensure their building meets the aims of local regulations in environmental efficiency. The new section covers areas such as power sources, water saving, recycling materials, heating and lighting systems. This incorporates windows, choosing the aspect of the house, insulation systems and building structure.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781742572161

Publisher: New Holland Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 November 2011

Country: Australia

Imprint: New Holland Publishers

Edition: Revised edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 285.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 264

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture George Wilkie Home & Garden Non-Fiction

About the Author

George Wilkie has wide experience in architectural practice, design education, town planning, urban design and building administration. His academic work includes developing, directing and lecturing courses in land economics, building construction, architecture, interior design, property management, heritage conservation and intervention and professional practice. Currently he is working in the complex field of urban design, developing plans and recommending actions to improve the public spaces ad public life of our cities and to promote and foster excellence in the education and professional practice of urban designers.