Building Better Homes: A Comprehensive Guide to High-Performance Green Building Science Principles

LaLiberte, Mark

ISBN 10: 1600851053 ISBN 13: 9781600851056

Publisher: Taunton Press, 2009

Synopsis

A multi-media training program for builders, architects and remodelers, Building Better Homes is a fully-interactive educational tool that demonstrates how to apply the latest building science tools and techniques to residential home construction. The Building Better Homes interactive DVD-ROM breaks new ground in home construction education by teaching cutting-edge, easy-to-access techniques through hands-on video, close-up photos, animation and step-by-step instructions. The program follows the entire construction process step-by-step, with photos of construction details, installation video clips, technical animations, and six hours of interactive construction content. Printable construction drawings, checklists and work forms can be put to use immediately by supervisors, foremen and subcontractors.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Laliberte (b. 1971) is a practicing writer/ visual artist/ designer/ soundmaker/ curator/ multi-headed hydra who has exhibited & performed extensively in galleries across Canada & the USA. Laliberte has had pageworks, poems & other printed experiments appear in publications big & small, including: Carousel, Descant, Lantern, Misunderstandings, Other Cl/utter, Pilot, Prairie Fire, Prefix Photo, Rampike, subTerrian, Vallum. He recently released the experimental comic, Take Away Its Wings and Force It to Fly (2008), he is currently working on his next full-sized manuscript, tentatively titled Cloud & Bubble.

Edition details

• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1600851053
• ISBN 13: 9781600851056
• Binding: DVD
• Number of pages: 1