Green from the Ground Up: Sustainable, Healthy, and Energy-Efficient Home Construction by David Johnston, Scott Gibson
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- Pub. Date: April 2008
- 336pp
- Sales Rank: 35,897
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 2008
- Publisher: Taunton Press, Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 336pp
- Sales Rank: 35,897
- Series: Builder's Guide Series
- ISBN-13: 9781561589739
- ISBN: 156158973X
Synopsis
This thorough, informative, and up-to-date reference on environmentally conscious, energy-efficient home construction gives builders and architects the tools to respond to growing requests from homeowners for green houses.
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David Johnston is on the Faculty of Law at McGill University in Montreal. He is chair of the Canadian Information Highway Advisory Council and president of the University of Waterloo.
Scott Gibson is a freelance writer, former editor at Fine Homebuilding and Fine Woodworking magazines, and the author of The Workshop (The Taunton Press, 2003). He lives in southern Maine.
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Great Book For High Performance Residential Builders or Home Buyers/Ownersby Lucy_in_Atlanta
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August 18, 2009: This book is very informative, written in everyday language. It is full of excellent illustrations! This is a Green Building essential, it should be in the library of all High Performance Green Builders and prospective Buyers as well as home owners. After reading this book, I purchased several copies and gift them to Builders to help them on the path to building Great Homes!
Pretty pictures and precise informationby Anonymous
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July 14, 2008: David Johnston and Scott Gibson see construction friendly to people and to environments as necessarily GREEN FROM THE GROUND UP. So they encourage commitment indoors and out to air quality, and to efficient energy and resource use. That means healthy land- and people-scaping, by attention to moisture and temperature control inside and out. My preferred book length is 150 pages. The authors give readers twice that, but comfortably broken down into 16 chapters. The afterword, guide to resources, and index are helpful ends to a beautifully illustrated, conveniently organized, and nicely written work.
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