Green Home Building: Money-Saving Strategies for an Affordable, Healthy, High-Performance Home - Softcover

Cook, Miki; Garrett, Doug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865717796 ISBN 13: 9780865717794

Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to building green on any budget.

According to conventional wisdom, building a green home is an expensive endeavor. The standard approach treats green as an add-on, tacking "premium" products, finishes, and equipment onto a traditional home design. As a result, many green home projects end up over budget or fail to achieve their environmental and performance goals.

Green Home Building explodes the myth that green homes have to cost more. Using proven methods based on applied building science, the authors show how to:

• Lower base construction costs to provide funding for high performance upgrades
• Achieve a net-zero energy home, including "zero-ing" water, waste, carbon, and associated costs within fifteen years
• Live affordably into the future, despite anticipated rising costs for fuel, water, materials, taxes, and health care

This comprehensive guide to building green on any budget defines the strategies that maximize the return on green investments. Written for anyone who has ever been swayed by the argument that the price tag limits how green a home can be, Green Home Building is a must-read for builders, contractors, architects, designers, and homeowners.

Miki Cook is a green building and sustainability consultant who has dedicated her career to educating contractors and the public on the strategies, methods, and benefits of green homes.

Doug Garrett has trained thousands of homebuilders, architects, and sub-contractors to build energy-efficient homes using applied building science to improve comfort, durability, and healthfulness while meeting or exceeding the energy code.

About this title

About the Authors

Miki Cook is a green building and sustainability consultant who has dedicated her career to educating contractors and the public on the strategies, methods and benefits of green homes.

Doug Garrett is a building science consultant who has trained thousands of homebuilders, architects and sub-contractors to build energy-efficient homes using applied building science to improve comfort, durability and healthfulness while meeting or exceeding the energy code.

From the Back Cover

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO BUILDING GREEN ON ANY BUDGET

"... an invaluable resource for those committed to a deep understanding of what it means to build a green home." --- Ann V. Edminster, M.Arch., LEED AP, author, Energy Free: Homes for a Small Planet

"This book should be required reading for every architect, builder, and homeowner..." ---Wayne Jeansonne, President, Solluna Builders LLC, custom home builder, Austin, Texas

Green Home Building explodes the myth that high-performance, environmentally friendly homes have to cost more, paving the way for green-home ownership on any budget. Using proven methods based on applied building science, the authors show how to:

• Lower base construction costs to provide funding for premium upgrades
• Cut maintenance and operating costs and achieve a net zero energy home
• Live affordably into the future, despite anticipated rising prices for fuel, water, materials, taxes and health care.

This comprehensive guide delivers a complete suite of strategies that minimize resource depletion while maximizing return on investment. Written for anyone who has ever been swayed by the argument that the price tag limits how green a home can be; Green Home Building is a must-read for builders, contractors, architects, designers and homeowners.

"[Green construction] is about going back to the common-sense strategies of sustainability...Doug Garrett and Miki Cook have written a very engaging book that covers all these principles and more." --- Eric Tang and Paula Rojas, homeowners, Austin, Texas

Miki Cook is a green building and sustainability consultant who has dedicated her career to educating contractors and the public on the strategies, methods and benefits of green homes.

Doug Garrett is a building science consultant who has trained thousands of homebuilders, architects and sub-contractors to build energy-efficient homes using applied building science to improve comfort, durability and healthfulness while meeting or exceeding the energy code.

From the Inside Flap

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO BUILDING GREEN ON ANY BUDGET

... an invaluable resource for those committed to a deep understanding of what it means to build a green home. --- Ann V. Edminster, M.Arch., LEED AP, author, Energy Free: Homes for a Small Planet

This book should be required reading for every architect, builder, and homeowner... ---Wayne Jeansonne, President, Solluna Builders LLC, custom home builder, Austin, Texas

Green Home Building explodes the myth that high-performance, environmentally friendly homes have to cost more, paving the way for green-home ownership on any budget. Using proven methods based on applied building science, the authors show how to:
- Lower base construction costs to provide funding for premium upgrades
- Cut maintenance and operating costs and achieve a net zero energy home
- Live affordably into the future, despite anticipated rising prices for fuel, water, materials, taxes and health care.

This comprehensive guide delivers a complete suite of strategies that minimize resource depletion while maximizing return on investment. Written for anyone who has ever been swayed by the argument that the price tag limits how green a home can be; Green Home Building is a must-read for builders, contractors, architects, designers and homeowners.

[Green construction] is about going back to the common-sense strategies of sustainability...Doug Garrett and Miki Cook have written a very engaging book that covers all these principles and more. --- Eric Tang and Paula Rojas, homeowners, Austin, Texas

Miki Cook is a green building and sustainability consultant who has dedicated her career to educating contractors and the public on the strategies, methods and benefits of green homes.
Doug Garrett is a building science consultant who has trained thousands of homebuilders, architects and sub-contractors to build energy-efficient homes using applied building science to improve comfort, durability and healthfulness while meeting or exceeding the energy code.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865717796
• ISBN 13: 9780865717794
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432