The Green Self-build Book [electronic resource] : How to Design and Build Your Own Eco-home.

CHAPTER 12: Environmentally preferred forms of constructionCHAPTER 13: Designing a sustainable garden; CHAPTER 14: Why we should build green for the future; CHAPTER 15: How to specify green; CHAPTER 16: Useful links, references and contacts; Index; Back cover.

Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication page; CHAPTER 1: Why self-build, and why build green; CHAPTER 2: Who has successfully built a green self-build house?; CHAPTER 3: Designing a good house; CHAPTER 4: How can you encourage others to think green?; CHAPTER 5: Environmental issues and the site; CHAPTER 6: Building for longevity; CHAPTER 7: Reducing energy in use; CHAPTER 8: Reducing environmental impacts; CHAPTER 9: Reducing potentially harmful impacts on health; CHAPTER 10: Reducing waste; CHAPTER 11: Reducing water consumption.

1. Why self-build, and why build green? -- 2. Who has successfully built a green self-build house? -- Jon builds his second house, using timber poles in South London -- integrated sustainable development in Hockerton: earth-sheltered with passive solar heating -- group of tenants build in the inner city (Islington), using post and beam timber-frame -- three-bedroom eco house for [pound]30,000 in Basildon using timber panel construction -- Super economic super insulation in Herefordshire, using straw bales -- Modern self-built house set in a West London conservation area (Ealing), using steel framing -- architect uses hemp to build an extension in Bury St Edmunds: minimum environmental impact building -- self-builder develops a specialism in earth building: a Devon cob house -- 3. Designing a good house -- 4. How can you encourage others to think green? -- 5. Environmental issues and the site -- 6. Building for longevity -- 7.

1. Why self-build, and why build green? -- 2. Who has successfully built a green self-build house? -- Jon builds his second house, using timber poles in South London -- integrated sustainable development in Hockerton: earth-sheltered with passive solar heating -- group of tenants build in the inner city (Islington), using post and beam timber-frame -- three-bedroom eco house for [pound]30,000 in Basildon using timber panel construction -- Super economic super insulation in Herefordshire, using straw bales -- Modern self-built house set in a West London conservation area (Ealing), using steel framing -- architect uses hemp to build an extension in Bury St Edmunds: minimum environmental impact building -- self-builder develops a specialism in earth building: a Devon cob house -- 3. Designing a good house -- 4. How can you encourage others to think green? -- 5. Environmental issues and the site -- 6. Building for longevity -- 7. Reducing energy in use -- 8. Reducing environmental impacts -- 9. Reducing harmful impacts on health -- 10. Reducing waste -- 11. Reducing water consumption -- 12. Environmentally preferred forms of construction -- 13. Designing a sustainable garden -- 14. Why we should build green for the future -- 15. How to specify green -- 16. Useful links, references and contacts.

A highly illustrated, practical handbook on eco-friendly self-building.