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Green home building : money-saving strategies for an affordable, healthy, high-performance home  Cover Image Book Book

Green home building : money-saving strategies for an affordable, healthy, high-performance home / Miki Cook & Doug Garrett.

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  • ISBN: 0865717796 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780865717794 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 416 pages : illustrations, maps
  • Publisher: Gabriola, BC : New Society Publishers, [2014]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 24.95
Subject: Ecological houses > Design and construction.
Ecological houses > Economic aspects.
House construction > Environmental aspects.
Dwellings > Energy conservation.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Miki Cook is a green building and sustainability consultant for the oldest green building program in the nation, Austin Energy Green Building (AEGB). She has spent her career in the residential construction industry, where for the last two decades she has focused on green building certification including acting as Green Rater for the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Homes and Energy Star programs and ICC-700, The National Green Building Standard. More recently, Miki has dedicated her career to educating contractors and the public on the strategies, methods and benefits of green homes, and helping them to achieve those goals.

Doug Garrett, CEM, founded Austin Energy's Residential and Multi-Family Energy Conservation programs. He has studied building science, indoor air quality, moisture management, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning throughout his career. In 1996, Doug established the first building science consulting business in Texas, and continues to provide building science-based forensic investigations, diagnostics and design consultations for clients and home builders across the nation. Doug has presented hundreds of seminars on applied building science, energy efficiency, moisture management, energy codes, air conditioning, indoor air quality and green building, and has served on numerous advisory councils and task forces for high performance industry standards, energy codes, alternative fuels, health concerns and housing affordability.


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