Green Building Guidelines: Meeting the Demand for Low-Energy, Resource-Efficient Homes
Sustainable Buildings Industry Council
Language: English
Pages: 174
ISBN: 097620732X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Today’s home buyers are looking for sustainable homes and home builders who can design them. Are you one of them?
SBIC’s Green Building Guidelines: Meeting the Demand for Low-Energy, Resource-Efficient Homes, Fourth Edition, is a primer for home builders designing more healthful, comfortable, and cost-effective homes. The principles outlined in the Guidelines help you integrate 1) sustainable site planning; 2) environmentally sound building materials and equipment; 3) energy efficiency and renewable energy strategies; 4) efficient water use, both indoors and out; 5) indoor environmental quality; 6) construction waste management practices; and 7) optimum home operations and maintenance.
The fourth edition of the Guidelines has been updated and reorganized. Two new sections, "The Whole Building Approach" and "The Building Envelope," have been added. The text has been reorganized to acquaint the reader with basic concepts and provide resources where more detailed information can be located. Each section contains "Interactions," or references to other sections of the book describing design strategies, systems, components, or materials that interact in important ways with the topic of the section.
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Science is crucial in understanding how homes work. Long-held theories and ideas are being challenged, and accurate data is flowing in from well-instrumented test sites and from field monitoring of new and existing homes. Building scientists seldom disagree about the facts. Controversy arises over how much emphasis to give each of the many factors that influence the behavior of building elements. For example, one investigator may approve of a technique because it has beneficial consequence X,.
While another investigator will disapprove of the same technique because it has undesirable consequence Y. Both X and Y occur, so both investigators are correct. But which is more important, the good result X or the bad result Y? How much X and how much Y actually occur in the field? Adding to the controversy, some building code provisions (for example, crawlspace ventilation) are based on outdated theories coupled with sparse evidence drawn from building construction technology no longer in use.
Meeting model building code structural performance requirements. OVE techniques include the following: z z z z z z z Increasing wall stud spacing to 24 inches on-center, rather than the standard 16 inches Spacing floor joists and roof rafters at 24 inches instead of 16 inches Using in-line framing when floor, wall, and roof framing members are in line with one another—sometimes called “in-line” or “stack” framing (in this manner, loads are transferred directly from one bearing member to the.
Packing and transportation needs. Some product manufacturers also take back pallets or other packing materials for reuse or recycling. How to Find Green Material Suppliers Green building product information can be found in periodicals, books and other resource guides, and Web sites. A number of organizations monitor the market for new products, evaluate the performance of new and evolving products, and— perhaps most important—identify green product suppliers. Two leading resources are the.