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Understanding Green Building Guidelines: For Students and Young Professionals - Softcover

Traci R. Rider

 
9780393732634: Understanding Green Building Guidelines: For Students and Young Professionals

Synopsis

"Understanding Green Building Guidelines" summarises the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement. Explaining US national and local green building guidelines and rating systems for producing sustainable buildings ranging from commercial to residential, this concise reference provides architects with a solid foundation for understanding the differences in programmes so they can select and use the most appropriate system for their projects.

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About the Author

Traci Rose Rider is co-founder and partner in Trace Collaborative, LLC. She received her Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati and her Masters in Design and Environmental Analysis from Cornell University where her research looked at factors impacting environmental attitudes of designers. Rider is past-chair of and consultant for the Emerging Green Builders (EGB) Committee of the U.S. Green Building Council, servicing students and young professionals. She was granted the USGBC Leadership Award in Education for 2005 and was included in a group labeled as “The Re-Inventors” in Vanity Fair’s Green Issue, May 2006.

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