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Written by two nationally known experts on the subject, Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification, 2nd Edition, is an excellent hands-on guide to designing environmentally friendly buildings - those made from materials that preserve the earth's natural legacy for future generations. You'll find practical information on green product selection, product specification, and construction processes. You'll also learn just what green building materials are, where you can find them, and how you can use them effectively.
To properly select and specify green building materials, successful architects need authoritative, real-world advice on how to select and use nontoxic, recycled and recyclable products, and how to integrate these products into the design process in order to capitalize on the many practical and economic advantages of "going green." Green Building Materials, 2nd Edition, is the most reliable, up-to-date resource to meet today's green building challenges - from reducing waste and improving energy efficiency to promoting proper code compliance and safeguarding against liability claims.
Green Building Materials, 2nd Edition, offer in-depth, practical information on the product selection, product specification, and construction process. This new second edition is an excellent hands-on guide to today's newest range of green building materials - what they are, where to find them, how to use them effectively, and how to address LEED requirements. Organized by CSI MasterFormat category for fast access to specific information, it features:
- New sections on commissioning and construction of waste management.
- Important guidance on how to evaluate the "greenness" of building materials, including a section-by-section specification summary of environmental issues.
- Helpful sample forms to aid in selecting and specifying green materials.
- A brief history of relevant environmental legislation and the evolution of environmentally conscious design.
- An appendix listing useful sources of additional information.
This edition includes updated information on LEED requirements and how to integrate them into the specifications process, and new sections on commissioning and on construction waste management.
From the Preface
When we set out over seven years ago to write "a guide to product selection and specification" for green building materials, the extent of design and construction professionals' knowledge of green or environmentally friendly buildings was fairly limited. The variety of green building materials was similarly limited. In these few short years, the industry has expanded exponentially. Today, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of green building products. There are green journals, green conferences, and green committees in nearly all building trade and professional organizations, there are numerous green building rating programs, not least of which is the US Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). There are now well over 100 ASTM standards related to sustainability in buildings. Spurred by the mounting public interest in green buildings, municipalities, states, and national governmental agencies are implementing green initiatives and adopting one rating system or another with increasing rapidity.
The years between the publication of the original edition and the second edition have seen an explosion in the knowledge base supporting green buildings, green building materials, and sustainability. The science informing environmental decision-making continues to grow. Manufacturers are researching and developing new green product lines as well as improvements to existing products. With the increasing number of complete green, sustainable or high-performance buildings, real-life statistics about cost and energy usage are becoming available. Not only is it possible to find a definition of "sustainability" in your dictionary today, but also it is difficult to pick up a newspaper or magazine or read an electronic newsletter that does not mention "sustainability."
In light of the progress at all levels in the green building industry, it became clear to us that an updated edition was overdue. We are grateful that our editor at John Wiley and Sons agreed. We hope that readers will find this second edition even more helpful than the first edition and will continue to use it as a "toolkit" in their daily practice and learning.
- Ross Speigel, Shelton, Connecticut
Dru Meadows, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition. Acknowledgments to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Why Use Green Building Materials? Chapter 3. What Are Green Building Materials? Chapter 4. How Does The Product Selection Process Work? Chapter 5. How Does The Product Specification Process Work? Chapter 6. How Does The Construction Process Work? Chapter 7. Green Building Materials and Green Building Programs. Chapter 8. Conclusion. Appendix A: Sources of Further Information. Appendix B: Summary of Environmental Issues in CSI MasterFormat Organization. Appendix C: Sample Sections and Forms. Appendix D: Sample Contracts. Glossary. Index.
About the Authors
Ross Spiegel, RA, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, is Senior Specification Writer with the Connecticut based architectural/engineering firm Fletcher-Thompson, Inc of Shelton, CT. He has been a member of the Construction Specifications Institute since 1978, where he has served in numerous positions on the chapter, region and Institute levels. In 1994, Ross was appointed as CSI's liaison to the U.S. Green Building Council, a position he continues to serve in today. Ross served on the U.S. Green Building Council's Board of Directors and is currently chairing the Steering Committee for the Council's International Green Building Conference & Expo.
Dru Meadows, AIA, CSI, CCS, is cofounder of the GreenTeam, Inc., a strategic environmental consulting firm that specializes in building industry issues. The firm's clients primarily include Fortune 500 corporations and governmental agencies. She is a board member of the Oklahoma State University - Environmental Institute and chair for ASTM International's Committee on Sustainability in Building. |
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