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Part green building primer, part architectural photo essay, this is an essential resource for professionals and homeowners interested in the leading edge of environmental building. Imhoff traveled extensively to document and photograph beautiful and novel alternatives to wood intensive-building.Building with Vision is the first book to link residential building with forest impacts. Nearly 1.5 million new houses are built in the United States each year, 90 percent framed with wood, and the average house consuming an acre's worth of trees. But as Building with Vision shows, from framing and siding to new building systems and finish materials, there are many ways architects, contractors, and homeowners can make high-quality, resourceful, long-lasting and beautiful decisions. Details include building techniques as well as materials, including Styrofoam, steel, concrete, straw bales, rammed earth, adobe and much more.
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This little book lives its ideals: the half-title page and title page are absent, the table of contents is on the inside front cover, and the publishing information on the inside backcover. The absent index also saves paper (if not convenience). And the paper stock is approximately 50% post-consumer-recycled. The content is intended for those interested in design and materials gathering, effectively arguing for reducing, reusing, and substituting recycled products for wood with such alternatives as an adobe hearth, a bamboo floor, or compressed soil blocks. Chapters address outside materials (shingles, siding, etc.), insulation, building methods, recycled materials, and surface and finish materials. Photographs make this book a pleasure to browse as well as read. This is the second in The Wood Reduction Trilogy on saving trees in papermaking, homebuilding, and in packaging (the last, forthcoming). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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