Customer Reviews

Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Second Edition

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Since I am the 1st person to review this book, I want to just say that I started with a smaller book that gave me the basics of green architecture, terminology and the run down on LEED and the USGBC. Next I followed up with this book and I must say that this book was EXTREMELY informative and covered everything in some way. Most of it was covered in detail and what wasnt covered in detail was touched upon, so you had an understanding of every aspect. I would recommend this book to ANYONE who is starting out towards LEED Accredation.

This book by Kibert might be fine as a a LEED test prep manual, but if you actually want to learn how to design a sustainable building, this book is quite poor. For instance, this book's entire section on passive solar design is only about seven pages long, versus several long chapters in other books. Seven pages is barely an introduction, definitely not enough information to design with. If the title had been "LEED Prep Manual", I might have given this book more stars.

If you do want to learn about sustainable building, I would strongly recommend Lechner's "Heating, Cooling, Lighting".

This is a textbook required for my green design 2 class. It provides a huge amount of statistics and green construction methods. Compared to other books about sustainable construction, this one seems much more informative and looks at the real issues behind WHY we should be using sustainable construction.

It's no light reading, but for someone new to sustainability and/or sustainable construction this book provides a well rounded and balanced discussion of the topics.

This is a very useful book. I will recommend this book to the students and the professional for their reference.

Great book and service!! The book got to me just in time for school to start, due to my late purchasing. Again, wonderful service!!

I ordered this book on Saturday and within two days it was at door step. I didn't have any problems receiving this product.

thanks, this is a great book. It taught me a lot about green building and construction and it got me an A in my class!

This book was specified to me as a textbook by our professor for preparation of LEED examination. I feel the book is a great source of learning and is highly recommended along with any other prep materials from LEED. At Amazon.com i found a reduced price for the book and as a student i was able to afford it. Infact i was delivered the book when i was just a day after i ordered it which worked out fine for me as i needed the book urgently.

it was a ok price but the shippment was to late and i almost dropped my class for the same reason.. but its in a good condition...........