Chris Magwood

Essential Sustainable Home Design

A Complete Guide to Goals, Options, and the Design Process

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Sustainable Building Essentials Series
• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 218mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9780865718500
• ISBN-10: 0865718504
• Artikelnr.: 46297953

Autorenporträt

Chris Magwood has designed and built some of the most innovative buildings in North America, including the first off-grid, straw bale home in Ontario which became a fifteen-year research project into the implementation of sustainable building materials and technologies. Chris Magwood lives in Peterborough, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Section 1: Developing a New Approach
Chapter 2: Decision-Making
Chapter 3: Defining Goals and Criteria
Chapter 4: Rating Systems and Product Guides
Chapter 5: Criteria Matrix
Chapter 6: Building Science Basics
Chapter 7: The Design Game
Chapter 8: Creating a Design/Build Team
Chapter 9: The Regulatory System
Section 2: Materials and Systems
Chapter 10: Structural Materials
Structural Materials: Foundations
Structural Materials: Walls
Structural Wall Systems
Wall Insulation
Wall Cladding
Roofing
Flooring
Surface finishes
Chapter 11: Mechanical Systems
Mechanical Systems: Water
Mechanical Systems: Wastewater
Mechanical Systems: Electrical Generation
Mechanical Systems: HVAC
Chapter 12: Conclusion
Endnotes
Resources for Further Research
Index
About the Author
A Note About the Publisher