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Wind Power For Dummies
Wiley 2009; US$ 21.99The consumer guide to small-scale wind electricity production! Maybe you're not T. Boone Pickens, but you can build your own home-sized wind-power empire right in your back yard. Wind Power For Dummies supplies all the guidance you need to install and maintain a sustainable, cost-effective wind generator to power your home for decades to come.... more...
Intelligent Buildings and Building Automation
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 79.95Giving you a combination of general principles, applied practice and information on the state-of-the-art, this book will give you the information you need to incorporate the latest systems and technologies into your building projects. It focuses on a number of important issues, such as:.: Network communication protocols and standards, including the... more...
Earth-Sheltered Houses
New Society Publishers 2006; US$ 27.95The only how-to manual on the subject directed to mainstream owner-builders more...
Prescriptions for a Healthy House
New Society Publishers 2008; US$ 28.95The Healthy House bible revised, updated and expanded, including contributions from leading North American building biologists. more...
Building the Timber Frame House
Touchstone 1981; US$ 21.99For centuries, post-and-beam construction has proved to be one of the most durable building techniques. It is being enthusiastically revived today not only for its sturdiness but because it can be easily insulated, it is attractive, and it offers the builder the unique satisfaction of working with timbers. Building the Timber Frame House is the... more...
Home Tree Home
Penguin Group US 1997; US$ 20.00Remember the view from atop a tree? You could survey the landscape like a monarch, escape your parents' watchful eye, and let your imagination run wild. Well, just because you've grown up, it doesn't mean you can't enjoy the sense of liberation a tree provides. Here is the most comprehensive guide ever to building your own castle in the air, be... more...
Self Build and Renovation For Dummies
Wiley 2011; US$ 25.99Creating your dream home is an exciting idea, but it's also a major project and one where you need to be an expert on everything from planning laws to landscape design, and all that's in between. Self Build and Renovation For Dummies takes you through every step of the process, from choosing and buying a plot of land, through to the building's design... more...
Code of Estimating Practice
Wiley 2012; US$ 94.99This code of practice, long established as a leading publication for the construction industry, provides an authoritative guide to essential principles and good practice in estimating for building work. The seventh edition includes new material on estimating strategy, tendering, procedures and best practice, as well as the build-up of unit rates of... more...
The Zero-Carbon House
Crowood 2011; US$ 18.94'Zero Carbon' is an abstract concept for most people, but we have lived energy-profligate lifestyles for too long on finite fossil-fuel resources. We now face potential environmental catastrophe from climate change and global warming, with a continuing exponentially expanding global population that doubles every four decades. The capacity of the planet... more...









