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One Big Building: A Counting Book About Construction (Know Your Numbers) Reviews
One Big Building: A Counting Book About Construction (Know Your Numbers) Know Your Numbers Find the hidden numbers in these exciting counting books. Count by ones twos fives and tens. Satisfaction Ensured. Design is stylish and innovative. Functionality that is Unbeatable. A counting book that follows the construction of a building, from one plan to [...]
What Your Contractor Can’t Tell You: The Essential Guide to Building and Renovating
What Your Contractor Can’t Tell You: The Essential Guide to Building and Renovating What Your Contractor Can’t Tell You is a comprehensive guide to getting the best results while building or renovating a home. Most homeowners spend about 20% of their time on the plan and 80% of their time on a messy, traumatic, expensive [...]
A Passive Solar Building Design For You
Yesterday we talked a great deal about the advantages of passive solar building design. In order to receive the solar energy advantage, especially for a solar energy home, you need to integrate understanding how solar energy works with passive solar building design.
A Green Building Catastrophe: Avoided by Climate-Specific Envelope Design
Without regard for climate, the high R values and tightness of modern energy efficient homes, will entrap moisture in the building envelope and cause the biggest building catastrophe since Vitruvious’ time. Climate-Specific Envelope Design is the new reality required for building energy efficient houses. Fortunately, this is no longer voodoo science; thousands and thousands of hours of research have been done by building scientists to give very precise parameters for designing building envelopes and enabling us to avoid A Green Building Catastrophe.
Building Design for the New Economy
History has shown that consumers’ have great power with their spending habits. Exciting opportunities for sustainability lie in the beginnings of a revolution that replaces materials made using dirty, wasteful methods with those resulting from clean processes patterned after Nature’s cyclical patterns. Ecological, sustainable building means not just sustaining our ecosystems, but human health as well. Mind, body and soul are affected in a myriad of ways by a dwelling. And it is clear that the once finely tuned relationship between humankind and nature is out of balance.
Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods
Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods Now in its Fifth Edition, this essential textbook has been used by thousands of students annually in schools of architecture, engineering, and construction technology. The bestselling reference focuses on the basic materials and methods used in building construction, emphasizing common construction systems such as light wood frames, masonry [...]
Green Construction is the Newest Trend in Home Building
Green building is a logical way to help the environmental movement to reduce green house gas emissions. It is also a way to save money on your energy bills.
High-Rise Hurricane Resistant Building Designs Determined
New high-rise Hurricane Resistant building designs and shapes are needed, especially if former Vice President Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, who created the Internet is right about the future of Super Storms being caused by Global Warming, due to human CO2. But how can humans engineer and build high-rises that can withstand F-5 Tornadoes, and Category V + Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones?
Building a House (Mulberry Books) Reviews
Building a House (Mulberry Books) A machine digs a big hole. A cement mixer pours cement. Carpenters put up walls. Bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, and painters do their part. Through brilliantly simple words and pictures we follow each step, and before our eyes a house is built. List Price: $ 6.99 Price: $ 3.29 Find More [...]
Green Building – New Ways To Beat High Energy Costs
Green building is becoming increasingly more popular with architects, builders and homeowners each year. Consumers’ environmental awareness is growing and they have come to demand more naturally sustainable and recycled materials incorporated in the construction and renovation of their homes and favor homes that utilize construction and design techniques that improve energy efficiency and reduce indoor air pollution. These green building techniques not only let homeowners feel good about leaving a smaller environmental footprint, but can provide long-term savings in utility bills.
