A great place to start is the 2 volumes of
Green Building Handbook : A Companion Guide to Building Products and Their Impact on the Environment, by Tom Woolley, Sam Kimmins
'From floors to roofing, it is a source of practical information in a easy to use format. It allows you to make decisions by comparing the materials used for various different products. The books have all the information you need to minimise the environmental impact of your building projects.'
Tom Woolley was my professor of architecture at Queens University Belfast and he really is 'da man'. Totally dedicated to the cause. He has been heavily involved in straw bale construction and hemp being used as a building material. In fact he has a field full of the stuff growing somewhere in county Down, and once wanted my friend and I to pick up a load from a guy in England in a transit van and bring it over on the boat! Would have been some craic!!!
I wrote my dissertation on 'Historic Buildings and Sustainability' mainly concentrating on local vernacular buildings in the Mountains of Mourne in N.I., but I looked in some detail at the application of green technologies to some larger historic buildings.
There are many great websites out there that a simple search on google will throw up with the right key words.
Any specific queries and I'll do my best to answer them.
Green Building Handbook : A Companion Guide to Building Products and Their Impact on the Environment, by Tom Woolley, Sam Kimmins
'From floors to roofing, it is a source of practical information in a easy to use format. It allows you to make decisions by comparing the materials used for various different products. The books have all the information you need to minimise the environmental impact of your building projects.'
Tom Woolley was my professor of architecture at Queens University Belfast and he really is 'da man'. Totally dedicated to the cause. He has been heavily involved in straw bale construction and hemp being used as a building material. In fact he has a field full of the stuff growing somewhere in county Down, and once wanted my friend and I to pick up a load from a guy in England in a transit van and bring it over on the boat! Would have been some craic!!!
I wrote my dissertation on 'Historic Buildings and Sustainability' mainly concentrating on local vernacular buildings in the Mountains of Mourne in N.I., but I looked in some detail at the application of green technologies to some larger historic buildings.
There are many great websites out there that a simple search on google will throw up with the right key words.
Any specific queries and I'll do my best to answer them.