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Essential Hempcrete Construction: The Complete Step-By-Step Guide (Sustainable Building Essentials #1)

Essential Hempcrete Construction: The Complete Step-By-Step Guide (Sustainable Building Essentials #1)

Current price: $39.99
Publication Date: June 17th, 2016
Publisher:
New Society Publishers
ISBN:
9780865718197
Pages:
128

Description

Essential Hempcrete Construction is an illustrated guide to this affordable, renewable method, from procurement to finish. This indispensable manual covers material properties, applications, specifications, code-compliance and climate data, rounded out by step-by-step instructions and budgeting information.

About the Author

Chris Magwood has designed and built some of the most innovative buildings in North America, including the first off-grid, straw bale home in Ontario which became a fifteen-year research project into the implementation of sustainable building materials and technologies. He is a director of the Endeavour Centre in Peterborough, Ontario where he teaches hands-on workshops and is a lead instructor for the Sustainable New Construction certificate program. Chris is co-editor of the Sustainable Building Series and author of several previous books on sustainable building, including Making Better Buildings , More Straw Bale Building and Straw Bale Details . He is a regular contributor to Mother Earth News , Home Power and The Last Straw Journal .