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Low Impact Building : Housing Using Renewable Materials.

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Author Woolley, Tom
Title Low Impact Building : : Housing Using Renewable Materials.
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Description 1 online resource (266 pages)
Contents Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Information and assistance was kindly provided by: -- Figure credits -- Introduction -- The Renewable House Programme -- The expansion of natural building -- The wider environmental agenda -- Chapter overview -- 1 Renewable and non-renewable materials -- Synthetic, manmade materials -- Limitations of synthetic materials -- Questioning claims about recycling -- Resource consumption problem with synthetic materials -- Renewable materials - insulation -- Carbon sequestration and embodied energy -- Performance and Durability of natural materials -- Natural renewable materials commercially available -- Low impact materials -- 2 Case Studies: twelve projects in the Renewable House Programme -- Abertridwr: Y Llaethdy South Wales:sheep's wool insulation -- Drumalla House, Carnlough, County Antrim: Hemcrete and sheep's woolrim -- Blackditch, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire: Hemcrete and hemp fibre insulation -- Callowlands, Watford: Hemcrete -- Domary Court, York: Hemcrete -- Inverness: CLT and fibre insulation -- Long Meadow, Denmark Lane, Diss: Hemcrete and Breathe hemp flax insulation -- LILAC, Leeds: Modcell strawbale -- Tomorrow's Garden City, Letchworth: wood fibre and Hemcrete -- Reed Street, South Shields: wood fibre and stone wool -- The Triangle, Swindon: Hemcrete and hemp insulation -- Pittenweem: no renewable insulation materials -- 3 The Renewable House Programme: a strange procurement! -- Monitoring and evaluation -- 4 Analysis of issues arising from the case studies -- Success in using natural renewable materials -- Adapting conventional timber frame construction for using natural materials -- The importance of getting details right and using detailsappropriate for eco materials -- Problems with designs and the need to get warrantyapprovals for changes of details.
Weather issues and hempcrete -- Decision of Lime Technology to go for prefabrication in future and whether this is the best option -- Using wood fibre products and issues related to construction and components -- 5 Attitudes to renewable materials, energy issues and the policy context -- Why attitudes and policies affect the use of renewable materials -- Climate change and energy efficiency targets -- What is carbon? -- Sustainable construction and energy policies -- UK Code for Sustainable Homes -- New planning policy framework -- The zero carbon myth -- The carbon spike concept -- Energy in use or 'operational energy' is all that matters to many -- How embodied energy is discounted -- Carbon footprinting -- Passive design approaches -- Do natural and renewable materials have lower embodied energy? -- Carbon sequestration in timber -- Wood transport issues -- Carbon sequestration in hemp and hempcrete -- The Green Deal -- Official promotion of synthetic insulations -- Other attitudes hostile to natural materials - the food crops argument -- Transport and localism -- Cost -- 6 Building physics, natural materials and policy issues -- Holistic design -- European standards, trade and professional organisations -- Building physics - lack of good research and education -- Lack of data and good research on sustainable buildings -- Energy simulation and calculation tools -- Assessment of material's environmental impact and performance -- Moisture and breathability and thermal mass -- Breathability -- Thermal mass and energy performance in buildings -- Building physics research into hempcrete -- Indoor air quality -- 7 Other solutions for low energy housing -- Hemp lime houses -- Hemp houses in Ireland -- Local sheep's wool in Scotland -- Strawbale houses in West Grove, Martin, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire -- Timber experiments -- Scottish Housing Expo.
Using local materials? -- Greenwash projects? -- So-called 'carbon neutral' developments -- Earth sheltered building -- BRE Innovation Park -- Masonry construction for low energy houses -- Blaming the occupants -- Back to the 60s and 70s - déjà vu -- 8 A future for renewable materials? -- Middlemen -- Postscript -- Glossary/Abbreviations -- Index -- Other Books Available from Wiley-Blackwell -- Advertisement.
Subject Building materials -- Environmental aspects.
Ecological houses
Green products
Recycled products
Building materials
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