Building your own Sustainable and Energy Efficient House

Henry Skates (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2011
The Crowood Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84797-258-3 (ISBN)

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Explains how to go about building a home that will save you money, save energy, minimize carbon emissions and greenhouse gas production [the main causes of climate change] and above all, provide a home of exceptional thermal comfort, not too hot, not too cold, in fact just right for you and your family.

Many people aspire to one day build a house for themselves but for one reason or another they have never taken the plunge. This book explains how to go about building a home that will save you money, save energy, minimize carbon emissions and greenhouse gas production [the main causes of climate change] and above all, provide a home of exceptional thermal comfort, not too hot, not too cold, in fact just right for you and your family.

Henry Skates is a practising architect, educator, self-builder and Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method assessor. He has worked in a number of practices in Scotland and Northern Ireland, built and renovated a number of houses for himself and family, and has held lecturing positions at the Universities of Dundee, Ulster, Queens University Belfast and Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.4.2011
Zusatzinfo	155 colour photographs
Verlagsort	Ramsbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Gewicht	722 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Hausbau / Einrichten / Renovieren
ISBN-10	1-84797-258-6 / 1847972586
ISBN-13	978-1-84797-258-3 / 9781847972583
Zustand	Neuware