Description
| Product ID: | 9781641551656 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Pretty Good House |
| Subtitle: | A Common-Sense Approach To Energy-Efficient Building |
| Authors: | Author: Christopher Briley, Michael Maines, Emily Mottram, Dan Kolbert |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, Houses, apartments, flats, etc |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Frustrated with complicated and restrictive green-building certification programs and the under-enforced building code, a group of architects and builders in Portland, Maine, came up with the idea of the Pretty Good House. What, they asked, should you include in a house that does right for its inhabitants and the planet, but that does not go beyond reasonable environmental or financial payback? In a nutshell, a Pretty Good House is a house that's as small as possible (remember The Not So Big House?); it is simple and durable, but also well designed; it uses wood and plant-derived products as construction materials; it includes photovoltaic panels or is PV-ready; it should be insulated and air-sealed well enough that heating and cooling systems can be minimal, and, above all, it is affordable, healthy, responsible, and resilient. |
| Imprint Name: | Taunton Press Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Taunton Press Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-07-26 |