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Title: Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes Author: Lubeck, Aaron Publisher:New Society Pub Publication Date:Mar-01-2010 Pages:320 Binding:Paperback Dimensions (inches):7.50 (W) x 9.00 (H) x 0.75 (D) ISBN:0865716404 Subject:House & Home / Remodeling & Renovation Description: People are usually told that they can either restore and maintain a historic house or they can make it energy efficient, but not both. Lubeck, a restoration and preservation consultant in North Carolina, disagrees, and explains techniques and materials for incorporating energy efficiency into restoration projects. He begins by describing the often conflicting movements of sustainability, preservation, and dollars and sense. Then he walks through: bathrooms, kitchens, living spaces, attics, and the exterior. His final section, on systems, looks at structure, envelope, windows, plumbing, HVAC, and electrical. He includes photographs, diagrams, charts, and other visual aids. Distributed in the US by Consortium Books Sales and Distribution. Annotation 2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) — Book News Some 40 percent of North Americans live in homes built prior to 1940, and when it comes time to remodel or restore our older homes, homeowners and contractors can find themselves lost in a morass of wildly divergent information and opinion. With Green Restorations, author Aaron Lubeck brings his expertise as a restoration contractor and preservation consultant to this first-of-its-kind guide, leading the reader through the steps for restoring historic buildings using sustainable practices and green building techniques. In a readily accessible room-by-room and system-by-system format, Green Restorations covers rehabilitation and remodeling questions applicable to old homes, focusing on the core techniques and debates often seen in practice. Here you’ll find the answers to restoration questions, such as: Is sealing my old crawl space a good idea? Should I replace or rehabilitate my windows? Are there historic aspects of my home I need to preserve, and what can I change? What are the cultural, environmental, and financial implications of my proposed changes? Do residential historic tax credits apply to my home, and how can I access them? Written in such a way as to be accessible for homeowners but technical enough for contractors, this book will appeal to anyone trying to green an older home while preserving its historic and cultural significance. Aaron Lubeck is a partner with the award-winning Trinity Design/Build, a restoration and preservation consultancy in North Carolina. He is a member of the United States Green Building Counci Brand new Paperback. All orders get full access to our online order status tracking service, allowing you to view realtime order progress. Please note that first editions are rarely first printings. We do not have product details beyond that contained within this listing. Customers within Australia: Shipping flat rate AU$7.50 to any address, regardless of weight, with additional units charged at weight-based cost. Your package will be securely handled & posted from England via Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your closest Australia Post distribution center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. During 2011 Australian postal delivery speed from the U.K. has seemingly slowed to 2-3 weeks (10-21 days), although packages can arrive both quicker and slower than this. Due to our listings requiring immediate PayPal payment, we cannot combine postage costs across different items. International customers outside Australia: Listing currency is Australian Dollars (AUD), shipping flat rate AU$9.50 (approximately US$9.00), except United Kingdom at AU$5.00 (approximately £3.00). Orders to international addresses are dispatched from the United Kingdom. Delivery time: UK 4-7 days. New Zealand, USA, Canada, Japan (all 7-14 days), all other Rest of World 10-28 days by Priority Airmail. New Zealand orders are split to Auckland and delivered by NZPost.