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Being SUSTAINABLE : Building System Performance
The book uses 3D graphics, videos, and models to illustrate the challenge of designing and installing sustainable building systems.

The book uses a graphic narrative style. The plot of this narrative follows the sequence of system installations, each in support of the other, but all crowded into the same space.

The characters in this narrative are the engineers who size and specify each of these systems and the subcontractors who must coordinate, compromise, and assemble them in the real world.

The plot of the story and art of construction is in the hands of these characters because no two of them would ever build their systems exactly the same. Important to readers is that the interactive models and videos on the book’s CD are an integral part of a broader multimedia learning experience.

The idea is to use the book’s printed pages as a guide in order to actually enter, explore and deconstruct the system models on the CD. Feel free to reach out, walk around, and orbit these models and use Google's free SketchUp tools to take the systems a part and put them back together in new ways. Only then will the book fulfill its goal. A sustainable building is an integrated system of often diverse and conflicting parts that must be carefully engineered and installed to function as a sustainable building.

ISBN: 978-0-9762741-3-1
$29.95
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Builder's Book Inc.
8001 Canoga Avenue
Canoga Park, CA 91304
http://www.buildersbook.com/
800 273-7375 and 818 887 7828 (outside US)

Builders BOOKSOURCE
1817 Fourth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
http://www.buildersbooksource.com
800 843-2028 and 510 845-6874

CAD Garage/Integrated CADD Services Inc.
19 Bishop Allen Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
http://intcad.stores.yahoo.net/info.html
617 576-8778 (selling all 3 of our books as a bundle for $79)

Opamp Technical Books
1033 N. Sycamore
Los Angeles, CA 90038
http://opamp.com/
800 468-4322

Powell's Technical Books
33 NW Park Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209
http://www.powells.com/
800 878 7328

Prairie Avenue Bookshop
418 S. Wabash
Chicago, IL 60605
http://www.pabook.com/search.asp
800 474-2724

Goerings Book Store
3433 West University Avenue
Gainesville, FL 32607
352 378-0363