Description
The best-selling and highly regarded reference to sustainable construction gets an update! It’s refreshed with a fully revised introduction, a bright new cover, and extensive online resource tie-ins.
This groundbreaking book doesn’t just tell you about “green” house-building techniques: it in fact shows you, with more than 1,200 step by step photographs that follow the real erection of an alternative building from website online selection to final-touch interior details. Readers will get a clear sense of the actual world challenges as Snell and Callahan create a lovely country cottage the use of four methods: straw bale, cob, cordwood, and modified stick-frame.
Along with sidebars all through, there’s a thorough discussion of the fundamentals of building construction, alternative approaches, and designing a beautiful yet environmentally responsible home. Building Green was once the first book of its kind—and it remains heads and shoulders above other titles on this field.