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Being Sustainable
Being SUSTAINABLE takes readers through the details of the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems of the mid-rise office building in Building SIMPLE. It uses 3D models, short videos and interactive graphics to illustrate the challenges of achieving optimum sustainabiity in high performance buildings.
Living Small
Living SMALL:The Life of Small Houses is an innovative book about the value of living in a small, purposeful house. The book is a graphic narrative written in the comic sytle that mixes layers of visual information with interactive 3D computer models of 20 small houses. These small houses include early shelters, settler cabins, Cracker houses, farmhouses, bandboxes, shotguns, bungalows, and very tiny houses. Each house has a lesson to teach on how to live simply and purposefully in an efficient and multifunctional space. The book's CD includes the SketchUp Viewer, the construction information models, and a detailed help menu that readers can use to orbit, enter, and visualize each of the small houses. Students, homeowners, and building professionals will recognize the evollution of small houses into a consumer oriented housing market and understand the purposeful nature of small, simple and sustainable shelter in an ever changing world.
3D Construction Modeling
This book, and interactive video CD, is a learner centered graphic narrative teaching Sketch Up 4.0 3D modeling software for design and construction professionals: architects, contractors and students. Uses experiential learning in project based illustrations for a hands on feel of basic construction techniques in sequence animations, process presentations and collaborative analysis.
How A House Is Built
This is a "how-to" book on the construction of a small, simple and sustainable house. The book uses detailed illustrations, captioned text, short videos, and 3D models to walk the reader through eight distinct phases of construction. Readers are also encouraged to build 3D construction models for their own projects. Each chapter ends with a "Hands-On" section with how-to tutorials that include navigating through a design model, excavating a model base, assembling a foundation wall, fabricating and erecting framing members, extruding 3D objects from 2D details, and running pipes and wires through the walls and ceiling.
Building Simple
Building SIMPLE is written for construction professionals who are not always involved in the day to day activities found on a jobsite. Its audience includes investors, developers, owners, attorneys, realtors, accountants, bankers, manufacturers, suppliers, managers, educators, students, and design professionals who want to know more about the nuts and bolts of building construction.The book uses a unique graphic style to demonstrate how every step of the construction of a commercial building can be captured and communicated using a simple building information model. This construction communications technique combines captioned text, 3D illustrations, animations, interactive 3D models, and short videos to give a virtual tour of the construction process. The result is a multimedia document where everyone involved in the production of a building can actually SEE and experience the construction process.
How a House Is Built
Houses are built with many different materials, and in many shapes and sizes. Step by step, this picture book explains how homes are built—from the architect's plans through the arrival of a happy family. The many processes of construction are explained with simple language and bright, clear illustrations, perfect for kids starting to wonder about how the world around them works. Many different careers—including carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and landscapers—are introduced, each doing their part to bring the picture wood-frame house to life. A great read for kids who love construction sites, or who can't get enough of Building a House by Byron Barton. According to The Washington Post, Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator." Ms. Gibbons is the author of more than 100 books for young readers, including the bestselling titles From Seed to Plant and Monarch Butterfly. Her many honors include the Washington Post/Childrens Book Fuild Nonfiction Award and the NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book Award.
Living Large in Our Little House
"Living Large in Our Little House is a practical and inspirational memoir about the joy and freedom of tiny house living"--
Constructing the Future
Comprehensive – from development to application Provides a global perspective – many and diverse applications Offers a critique of competing views Accessible – a mix of investigative journalism and traditional academic Each chapter concludes with guidance on best practice
