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| The NEW NATURAL HOUSE BOOK : Creating a Healthy, Harmonious, and Ecologically Sound Home |  | Author(s): David Pearson
ISBN: 0684847337
Publisher: Fireside; Revised edition (July 1998)
Price: $17.47
| | Summary: This completely revised and redesigned edition of the bestselling Natural House Book brings you hundreds of practical energy- and money-saving ideas to enhance your home, your environment, and your well-being. | | | Indoor Air Quality and HVAC Systems |  | Author(s): David W. Bearg
ISBN: 0873715748
Publisher: Lewis Publishers, Inc.; (February 22, 1993)
Price: $89.95
| | Summary: Indoor Air Quality and HVAC Systems is a practical guide for understanding the relationship between the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of HVAC systems and achieving indoor air quality (IAQ). The book describes the individual components of HVAC systems and the role each plays in maintaining good indoor air quality. It also identifies the techniques available for evaluating the performance characteristics of ventilation systems (including the use of carbon dioxide monitors and sulfur hexafluoride tracer testing equipment). Other topics discussed include the determination of pathways of air movement through buildings and understanding pressure relationships, ventilation effectiveness, and efficiency. The book concludes with an overview of sources of air contaminants to be concerned about when performing an IAQ evaluation. Indoor Air Quality and HVAC Systems provides critical information for industrial hygienists, HVAC contractors and engineers, and building owners and managers. | | | Understanding Ventilation: How to Design, Select, and Install Residential Ventilation Systems |  | Author(s): John Bower
ISBN: 0963715658
Publisher: Healthy House Inst; (June 1995)
Price: $31.95
| | Summary: At last...a book that takes all the mystery out of ventilation! Understanding Ventilation is the only book that covers all aspects of exchanging the air in houses: infiltration, equipment selection, design, heat-recovery ventilators, sizing, costs, controls, whole-house filters, distribution, and possible problems that a ventilation system can cause--all in easy-to-understand language. | | | Healthy by Design: Building and Remodeling Solutions for Creating Healthy Homes |  | Author(s): David Rousseau, James Wasley
ISBN: 0881791350
Publisher: Hartley & Marks Publishers; (October 1997)
Price: $7.69
| | Summary: This different approach to residential design "takes the personal health of the occupant as its focus." Rousseau, an environmental design consultant, begins by discussing how most post-World War II construction has lead to the creation of "sick buildings" because insulating a house from drafts thereby seals in all the chemicals used in modern living. To create a house that takes into account occupant health as well as resource and energy efficiency, Rousseau presents case studies, diagrams for design solutions, as well as a review of preferred building materials and heating and cooling systems. Recommended where there is an interest in "green" living. | | | The Healthy House : How to buy one, How to build one, How to cure a sick one, 4th revised ed. | | | Author(s): John Bower
ISBN: 0963715690
Publisher: Healthy House Inst; 4th edition (November 28, 2000)
Price: $23.95
| | Summary: Even a healthy homeowner may feel queasy after dipping into this book. Bower, a designer and builder who has written about the environment, states that some people are highly sensitive to household odors, dust, molds and plastics out-gassing, then goes on to warn that the number of such sufferers is increasing. Perhaps, but since Bower presents no hard data, his authority is called into question. And though he offers a long list of technical and scientific references in support of his arguments, at other points the author undermines his credibility, tossing ecological brickbats at many of today's building products, not always with the accuracy expected of a building professional. For example, Bower faults concrete roof tile for its porosity (which encourages mold) and periodic need of repainting (paint chemicals can adversely affect sensitive people), despite the fact that, as most roofers know, much concrete tile sold is permanently color-glazed and non-porous. In a single sentence, Bower dismisses vinyl, the highest-selling siding nationally, as simply "not recommended," with an imperiousness typical and regrettable. | | | Page result: 1 2 3 4 5 6
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