- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (9 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471291331
- ISBN-13: 978-0471291336
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 19.7 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 941,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- See Complete Table of Contents
Green Building Materials
and over 900,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Visit the Amazon.co.uk Trade-In Store for more details. |
|
There is a newer edition of this item:
|
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
The ultimate user′s manual to green building materials –for building design that reuses our past and reimagines our future
When it comes to selecting and specifying green building materials, architects need more than innate design sense. They need real–world advice on how to select and use nontoxic, recycled, and recyclable products, and how to integrate them into the design process to capitalize on the many practical and economic advantages of "going green"–from reducing waste and improving energy efficiency to promoting proper code compliance and safeguarding against liability claims.
The latest addition to the Wiley Series in Sustainable Design, Green Building Materials is an excellent hands–on guide to today′s wide range of green building materials–what they are, where to find them, and how to use them effectively. Written by two nationally known experts on green building methods and materials, Green Building Materials offers in–depth practical information on the product selection, product specification, and construction process. Organized by CSI MasterFormat(r) category for fast access to specific information, it features:
∗ Important guidance on how to evaluate the "greenness" of building materials, including a section–by–section specification summary of environmental issues
∗ Helpful sample forms to aid in selecting and specifying green materials
∗ A brief history of relevant environmental legislation and the evolution of environmentally conscious design
∗ An appendix listing useful sources of additional information. Green Building Materials is an essential tool for designing environmentally friendly buildings: ones made from materials that preserve the earth′s natural legacy for future generations.
When it comes to selecting and specifying green building materials, architects need more than innate design sense. They need real–world advice on how to select and use nontoxic, recycled, and recyclable products, and how to integrate them into the design process to capitalize on the many practical and economic advantages of "going green"–from reducing waste and improving energy efficiency to promoting proper code compliance and safeguarding against liability claims.
The latest addition to the Wiley Series in Sustainable Design, Green Building Materials is an excellent hands–on guide to today′s wide range of green building materials–what they are, where to find them, and how to use them effectively. Written by two nationally known experts on green building methods and materials, Green Building Materials offers in–depth practical information on the product selection, product specification, and construction process. Organized by CSI MasterFormat(r) category for fast access to specific information, it features:
∗ Important guidance on how to evaluate the "greenness" of building materials, including a section–by–section specification summary of environmental issues
∗ Helpful sample forms to aid in selecting and specifying green materials
∗ A brief history of relevant environmental legislation and the evolution of environmentally conscious design
∗ An appendix listing useful sources of additional information. Green Building Materials is an essential tool for designing environmentally friendly buildings: ones made from materials that preserve the earth′s natural legacy for future generations.
From the Back Cover
The ultimate user′s manual to green building materials –for building design that reuses our past and reimagines our future
When it comes to selecting and specifying green building materials, architects need more than innate design sense. They need real–world advice on how to select and use nontoxic, recycled, and recyclable products, and how to integrate them into the design process to capitalize on the many practical and economic advantages of "going green"–from reducing waste and improving energy efficiency to promoting proper code compliance and safeguarding against liability claims.
The latest addition to the Wiley Series in Sustainable Design, Green Building Materials is an excellent hands–on guide to today′s wide range of green building materials–what they are, where to find them, and how to use them effectively. Written by two nationally known experts on green building methods and materials, Green Building Materials offers in–depth practical information on the product selection, product specification, and construction process. Organized by CSI MasterFormat(r) category for fast access to specific information, it features:
∗ Important guidance on how to evaluate the "greenness" of building materials, including a section–by–section specification summary of environmental issues
∗ Helpful sample forms to aid in selecting and specifying green materials
∗ A brief history of relevant environmental legislation and the evolution of environmentally conscious design
∗ An appendix listing useful sources of additional information. Green Building Materials is an essential tool for designing environmentally friendly buildings: ones made from materials that preserve the earth′s natural legacy for future generations.
When it comes to selecting and specifying green building materials, architects need more than innate design sense. They need real–world advice on how to select and use nontoxic, recycled, and recyclable products, and how to integrate them into the design process to capitalize on the many practical and economic advantages of "going green"–from reducing waste and improving energy efficiency to promoting proper code compliance and safeguarding against liability claims.
The latest addition to the Wiley Series in Sustainable Design, Green Building Materials is an excellent hands–on guide to today′s wide range of green building materials–what they are, where to find them, and how to use them effectively. Written by two nationally known experts on green building methods and materials, Green Building Materials offers in–depth practical information on the product selection, product specification, and construction process. Organized by CSI MasterFormat(r) category for fast access to specific information, it features:
∗ Important guidance on how to evaluate the "greenness" of building materials, including a section–by–section specification summary of environmental issues
∗ Helpful sample forms to aid in selecting and specifying green materials
∗ A brief history of relevant environmental legislation and the evolution of environmentally conscious design
∗ An appendix listing useful sources of additional information. Green Building Materials is an essential tool for designing environmentally friendly buildings: ones made from materials that preserve the earth′s natural legacy for future generations.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
Using green building materials can help divert indoor air quality (IAQ) liability claims, respond to consumer demand, and provide for compliance with certain regulatory requirements. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Using green building materials can help divert indoor air quality (IAQ) liability claims, respond to consumer demand, and provide for compliance with certain regulatory requirements. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organise and find favourite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon U.K.
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
4.0 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews)
84 of 87 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent and long-needed guide to green specifications!, 18 Nov 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design) (Hardcover)
This is an absolute MUST-HAVE addition to the libraries of every firm and organization that deals with designing, constructing, maintaining, or restoring commercial and public buildings. It should be required reading in every architectural school. It also offers much value to residential builders, even though they seldom use the sophisticated specification systems of the commercial building trade.For some three decades, articles and books on environmentally-sound architecture have focused on the design side. And most have focused on residential construction. Spiegel & Meadow's new book breaks new ground in two respects, by dealing with the product/material side of (primarily) commercial buildings.
The specification aspect of green construction -- in which the appropriate materials and products are prescribed -- has been largely unaddressed. This is partly because the commercial building industry, in general, has culturally been behind the curve in terms of concern for the environment, but also because even the most conscientious firms have serious difficulty finding and obtaining green building products.
There are two reasons for this difficulty of specifying green materials: 1) Few architects receive any meaningful level of training regarding specification in their schooling, preferring to focus on the more glamorous process of design; and, 2) Neither the commercially-available master guide specifications (such as SpecLink and MasterSpec) nor the product catalogs (such as First Source, SpecData, and Sweets) have figured out how to provide a useful and accurate means of helping specifiers compare the greeness of one item over another.
While Green Building Materials can't solve the industry's lack of useful tools, it provides designers with the first comprehensive education on the specification process as it relates to green building.
New tools are finally entering the market, such as the LEED system (from the U.S. Green Building Council) for measuring the greeness of a building, which will soon be incorporated into the Construction Specification Institute's new PerSpective software for performance specifying.
Used in combination with this book, architects and building owners are finally beginning to get what they need to create buildings that are healthy for both their occupants and the world's environment.
The authors have a level of intimacy with their subject that oozes out of each page. Readers come away with the distinct impression that this book is a product of both passion and deep expertise, and is obviously not some publisher's attempt to quickly plug a serious gap in the literature.
A rapidly-growing number of public and private owners are requiring a level of greeness to all of their new buildings. Green Building Matierals is the tool the owners need in order to get what they want. It's also what designers and builders need to respond successfully to such demands.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book, 10 Mar 2009
By Michael T. Haryza - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design) (Hardcover)
This book gives great detail to the open ends of the negative effects of our market, and where to turn to correct them.
5.0 out of 5 stars
High Praises to Amazon!!!!, 28 April 2008
By C. Watson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification (Hardcover)
I love this book. If you are interested in Green Building, I would highly recommend purchasing it. Also, when I found this book on Amazon, I did a lot of searching on the web to see if there was a lower price. There absolutely wasn't. Everywhere I found this book, they were charging $100+ for it. BUY IT FROM AMAZON!! Good Luck and Good Reading!
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Architecture > Planning
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Architecture > Techniques & Tools > Materials
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Architecture > Techniques & Tools > Structure & Design
- Books > Science & Nature > Engineering & Technology > Mechanical & Materials Engineering > Materials Science
- Books > Science & Nature > Environment & Ecology > Conservation
- Books > Science & Nature > Environment & Ecology > Pollution
- Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Environment > Environmental Conservation
- Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Environment > Pollution
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
