- ISBN13: 9781558708624
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Homebuyers and homebuilders are focusing more on ‘right-sizing’ their dream home instead of mortgaging their dreams away. “Today’s Dream Home” targets three audiences: mid-to-late baby boomers who are down-sizing their homes (approximately 40 million); readers who are actively looking for Green building methods for their next home and retirees who are facing fixed-income concerns. The author uses both how-to and descriptive methods to guide the reader to the right h… More >>
The Building Today’s Green Home: Practical, Cost-Effective and Eco-Responsible Homebuilding
#1 by B. Hereford on April 16, 2010 - 2:19 pm
“Building Today’s Green Home” by Art Smith
This is fun read, he has a nice informal writing style- just like having a conversation with the author. I liked the digressions about less lawn and more solar. We are seeing that up here in New England as well.
Great description and pictures of the construction, both shop and site. There needs to see more panelization in our homes. This will help get “green” points and make “deconstruction” easier, particularly when you screw the panels together!
This is a great book focussing on vernacular architecture for Climate Zones 3 and 4. We need such things as steep roof pitches for the snow loads up here in New England, but not down south.
The Timber Truss design is really attractive and that is a novel building method using SIPs. It looks like it would save lots of money since there would be no cutouts for windows and doors.
The afterword is very appropriate. We should be upgrading all the larger older homes to make them very energy efficient and building smaller new homes for the shrinking family!
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Tamra Acree on April 16, 2010 - 4:53 pm
Practical, easy to understand. I have seen Mr. Smith’s green houses and they are the wave of the future. I wish we had seen this book before building our cabin in the mountains. The trusses are a work of art(no pun intended).
Rating: 5 / 5