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'...an amazingly comprehensive and thorough resource, full of gems of wisdom, and anyone seriously interested in exploring alternatives to mainstream materials will find a great deal of useful material.'
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Silver Award Winner at the Chartered Institute of Buildings Literary Awards:
"This book looks in fine detail at the composition and properties of building materials from an ecological perspective. Packed full of fresh information and comprehensive data, it tackles a subject about which very little has been published before. There is a freshness and clarity of treatment that stems from the author's clear passion for the subject. Ignore this book at your - and your grandchildren's - peril."
CIOB Committee
'[The book] is tightly packed with text, tables, references and illustrations; it is thorough...and it is wide-ranging in coverage of materials and techniques, both familiar and less so.'
Adam Voelcker, The Architectural Review
'...an amazingly comprehensive and thorough resource, full of gems of wisdom, and anyone seriously interested in exploring alternatives to mainstream materials will find a great deal of useful material.'
Environmental Building News
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Silver Award Winner at the Chartered Institute of Buildings Literary Awards:
"This book looks in fine detail at the composition and properties of building materials from an ecological perspective. Packed full of fresh information and comprehensive data, it tackles a subject about which very little has been published before. There is a freshness and clarity of treatment that stems from the author's clear passion for the subject. Ignore this book at your - and your grandchildren's - peril."
CIOB Committee
'[The book] is tightly packed with text, tables, references and illustrations; it is thorough...and it is wide-ranging in coverage of materials and techniques, both familiar and less so.'
Adam Voelcker, The Architectural Review
'...an amazingly comprehensive and thorough resource, full of gems of wisdom, and anyone seriously interested in exploring alternatives to mainstream materials will find a great deal of useful material.'
Environmental Building News -- Review
Review
Silver Award Winner at the Chartered Institute of Buildings Literary Awards:
"This book looks in fine detail at the composition and properties of building materials from an ecological perspective. Packed full of fresh information and comprehensive data, it tackles a subject about which very little has been published before. There is a freshness and clarity of treatment that stems from the author's clear passion for the subject. Ignore this book at your - and your grandchildren's - peril."
CIOB Committee
'[The book] is tightly packed with text, tables, references and illustrations; it is thorough...and it is wide-ranging in coverage of materials and techniques, both familiar and less so.'
Adam Voelcker, The Architectural Review
'...an amazingly comprehensive and thorough resource, full of gems of wisdom, and anyone seriously interested in exploring alternatives to mainstream materials will find a great deal of useful material.'
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fossil meal, phenol glue, hydraulic lime render, vegetable turpentine, lime cement render, soya glue, boric salts, sulphur concrete, high thermal insulation value, climatic materials, woodwool cement, climatic products, insulating aggregate, timber impregnation, expanded clay pellets, impregnating substances, cellulose glue, dynamic insulation, fired clay products, woodwool slabs, pozzolana cement, lime paint, porous boards, energy recycled, hydraulic lime mortar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Ecology of Building Materials, Gaia Lista, New York, Materials Energy Water, Middle Ages, Second World War, Quantity of Pollution, Norwegian Building Research Institute, Basic Technology, Roman Empire, Statens Provningsanstalt, Stone Age, Water Possibly, Health External, Intermediate Technology Publications, Lebenswartung von Baustoffen, Middle East, Quartz Roof, Stalk Roofing, The Romans, Western Europe, World Perspective New!
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The earth's resources are usually defined as being 'renewable' or 'non-renewable'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fossil meal, phenol glue, hydraulic lime render, vegetable turpentine, lime cement render, soya glue, boric salts, sulphur concrete, high thermal insulation value, climatic materials, woodwool cement, climatic products, insulating aggregate, timber impregnation, expanded clay pellets, impregnating substances, cellulose glue, dynamic insulation, fired clay products, woodwool slabs, pozzolana cement, lime paint, porous boards, energy recycled, hydraulic lime mortar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Ecology of Building Materials, Gaia Lista, New York, Materials Energy Water, Middle Ages, Second World War, Quantity of Pollution, Norwegian Building Research Institute, Basic Technology, Roman Empire, Statens Provningsanstalt, Stone Age, Water Possibly, Health External, Intermediate Technology Publications, Lebenswartung von Baustoffen, Middle East, Quartz Roof, Stalk Roofing, The Romans, Western Europe, World Perspective New!
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- Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials - 3 volume set by Richard J. Lewis Sr. on page 62
- State of the World 1986: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society by Lester R. Brown on page 25
- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on page 46
- Second World War (What Families Were Like) by Fiona Reynoldson on page 46
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- Green Building: Project Planning & Cost Estimating (Means Green Building: Project Planning & Cost Estimating) by Contributing Authors on page 172, and Back Matter
- Strategies for Sustainable Architecture by Paola Sassi on page 145, and Back Matter
- Building Surveys, Fifth Edition by Peter Glover in Back Matter
- Eco-Refurbishment: A Practical Guide to Creating an Energy Efficient Home by Peter F Smith in Index
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