This excellent hands-on guide to designing environmentally friendly buildings contains 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.

Green Building Materials, 2nd 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.

Other features include:

• guidelines on how to evaluate the "greenness" of building materials
• helpful sample forms to aid in selecting and specifying materials
• a brief history of relevant environmental legislation

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Why Use Green Building Materials?
3. What Are Green Building Materials?
4. How Does The Product Selection Process Work?
5. How Does The Product Specification Process Work?
6. How Does The Construction Process Work?
7. Green Building Materials and Green Building Programs
8. Conclusion

Appendices

• Sources of Further Information
• Summary of Environmental Issues in CSI MasterFormatTM Organization
• Sample Sections and Forms
• Sample Contracts

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