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Building Green: A Complete How-to Guide to Alternative Building Methods
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Product Description
This manual doesn't just talk about eco-friendly building techniques, but actually shows every step. More than 1,200 close-up photographs, along with in-depth descriptions, follow the real construction of an alternative house from site selection to the final-touch interior details. The authors provide: discussions of the fundamental concepts of construction; earth-friendly alternatives to conventional approaches and materials; plans for a home that is comfortable, beautiful, and environmentally responsible; and a practical demonstration of a house in construction using alternative methods. The images show every move: how the site is cleared, the basic structure put together, the cob wall sculpted, the bales and cordwood stacked, a living roof created. Most important, the manual conveys the real-world challenges and processes, and offers dozens of sidebars with invaluable advice
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #93985 in Books
- Published on: 2006-01-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 616 pages
Customer Reviews
A milestone for green building
This book delivers its message through 1200 clear colour photos depicting the process and details of building a cob, cordwood, strawbale or stickframe house. It is a reference, manual, and a great source of inspiration for anyone considering to build a house of natural materials.
inspirational book
this book descibes different building techniques on build of one cottage/house, each wall is build in different method using eco friendly materials like wood, cob, straw.
4 methods used are straw bale, cob, cordwood and modified stick-frame, also shows you how to build green roof.
all in all very inspiring
More than enough
If you are serious about building green then this book will not disappoint you. It covers many aspects of building green homes. If I had a criticism then it would be that I can't understand why the author's decided to build a living roof even though they strongly suggest that a novice should never attempt to build one. This book will open your eyes to things which you have seen all of your life yet never recognised. What more can one want from a book.
