Understanding Green Building Materials - Softcover

Traci Rose Rider; Stacy Glass; Jessica Mcnaughton

 
9780393733174: Understanding Green Building Materials

Synopsis

From eco-friendly sheetrock to sustainable paint finishes, the green building movement is gaining momentum but with new products being introduced routinely, it is hard for architects or designers to know what is best for their projects. A companion to Understanding Green Building Guidelines (ISBN 978 0 393 73263 4), this primer summarises what is available and the considerations for selecting sustainable materials.

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About the Authors

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.

Stacy Glass, an executive of a leading distributor of sustainable building products, lives in North Carolina.

Jessica McNaughton, an executive of a leading distributor of sustainable building products, lives in North Carolina.

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