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The Hempcrete Book: Designing and Building with Hemp-Lime by William Stanwix
RRP: £27.99£21.57A comprehensive practical manual for professionals and self-builders, this innovative book explains the many benefits of building with hempcrete. Hempcrete is a building material with excellent, environmentally friendly properties. It's made from... -
Resourceful Living by Lisa Dawson
RRP: £20.00£13.75It's often thought that restyling your space comes with a hefty price tag and unavoidable waste. But in Resourceful Living, award-winning interiors blogger Lisa Dawson shows how, with a little creativity, you can revamp your home with existing pieces,... -
The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future by Jonathan Hill
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin... -
Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica by Adom Philogene-Heron
RRP: £21.50£15.04Still Standing is a celebration of the vanishing vernacular architecture of Dominica. These small wooden homes, ingeniously crafted and carefully adapted to their environment, have survived hurricanes and earthquakes; in contrast to many modern concrete... -
BIG. HOT TO COLD. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation by TASCHEN
RRP: £40.00£30.79After the global success of YES IS MORE, one of the best-selling architecture books of its generation, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group presents HOT TO COLD, an odyssey of architectural adaptation. The book coincides with the HOT TO COLD show at the National... -
Essential Hempcrete Construction: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide by Chris Magwood
RRP: £28.99£19.24Hempcrete is a versatile, energy-efficient natural insulation material, useful for walls, roofs, and floors. Made from the inner stem of the hemp plant mixed with a lime-based binder, it is a very strong, lightweight and breathable alternative to... -
Cradle to Cradle: (Patterns of Life) by Michael Braungart
RRP: £9.99£7.11Recycling is good, isn't it? In this visionary book, chemist Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough challenge this status quo and put forward a manifesto for an intriguing and radically different philosophy of environmentalism."Reduce, reuse,... -
How to make a wildflower meadow: Tried-And-Tested Techniques for New Garden Landscapes by James Hewetson-Brown
RRP: £17.99£12.41Flowering meadows are appealing to gardeners and valuable for wildlife, but they can be difficult to establish and many people give up. This book will change all that with practical advice and new establishment techniques. Garden owners will value... -
Biomimicry in Architecture by Michael Pawlyn
RRP: £37.00£30.80When searching for genuinely sustainable building design and technology - designs that go beyond conventional sustainability to be truly restorative - we often find that nature got there first. Over 3.5 billion years of natural history have evolved... -
Concrete Jungle: Tropical Architecture and its Surprising Origins by gestalten
RRP: £55.00£38.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040890Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
Social Value in Practice by Ani Raiden 9780367457150
RRP: £47.99£41.81Social Value in Practice offers the reader a simple, accessible guide for considering, creating, and delivering social value in projects and within their organisation. The book connects social value to the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and... -
Highgrove: A Garden Celebrated by HRH The Prince of Wales
RRP: £35.00£24.03HIGHGROVE: A GARDEN CELEBRATED is a commemoration of the beautiful, mature gardens planned and planted by The Prince of Wales over thirty years ago. The gardens at Highgrove evoke intense emotion. In January, the dramatic light and early snowdrops of the... -
Retreat: The Modern House in Nature by Ron Broadhurst
RRP: £35.00£25.89The most forward-looking spaces designed for rustic living in the twenty-first century. Across the globe, architects are creating innovative houses for country living, reimagining the way we escape into the natural world. Some combine industrial... -
The Case for Nature: Pioneering Solutions for the Other Planetary Crisis by Siddarth Shrikanth
RRP: £20.00£13.89The climate movement has gathered some pace but what about the other, inextricably linked crisis in biodiversity? A radically hopeful manifesto, The Case for Nature sets out with clarity how we can use groundbreaking natural capital frameworks - ways of... -
The House of Green by Gestalten 9783967041408
RRP: £40.00£28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967041408Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten VerlagWeight(grams) 1610gDimensions(mm) 296mm * 232mm *... -
Building Information Modeling For Dummies by Stefan Mordue
RRP: £27.99£18.59Everything you need to make the most of building information modeling If you're looking to get involved in the world of BIM, but don't quite know where to start, Building Information Modeling For Dummies is your one-stop guide to collaborative building... -
EnerPHit: A Step by Step Guide to Low Energy Retrofit by James Traynor
RRP: £47.00£37.47In order to meet UK Carbon reduction commitments for 2020 and 2050 building owners will be required to upgrade their buildings to meet an increasingly stringent set of energy performance requirements. In the absence of any clear advice from UK Government... -
The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron
RRP: £9.99£6.52A celebrated international bestseller that exposes the ticking time-bomb underneath our new technological order. The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are... -
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities by Veronica Davis 9781642832099
RRP: £26.00£21.70Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the... -
Manual of Biogenic House Sections by Paul Lewis
RRP: £35.00£22.16Recognising that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low embodied... -
Passive House Details: Solutions for High-Performance Design by Donald B. Corner
RRP: £39.99£36.06Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals, research, analysis, systems, details, and inspiring images of some of the most... -
Designing for the Climate Emergency: A Guide for Architecture Students by Sofie Pelsmakers
RRP: £35.00£29.82Climate change is not distant. It is underway. We are in the midst of a climate emergency. Architects can - and must be - part of the radical change needed, and we must understand the impact of local decisions on the global scale. This book guides you... -
Earthen Floors: A Modern Approach to an Ancient Practice by Sukita Reay Crimmel 9780865717633
RRP: £24.99£16.72For most of human history, people have lived in durable, comfortable buildings made from natural materials such as soil, sand, rocks, and fiber. All over the globe, these ancient traditions persist; a quarter to a third of the world's population today... -
The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald 9780571362219
RRP: £18.99£12.83'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . . . We could all use a little more of Fitzgerald's scepticism.' Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times'Like Jon Ronson on town planners . . . Endlessly funny and seriously smart.' John GrindrodCities are bad for us:... -
Building Condition Surveys: A Practical and Concise Introduction by Mike Hoxley
RRP: £35.00£28.82Condition surveys are becoming increasingly important and standardised in approach but are a high risk service with the potential for legal consequences if mistakes are made. Professionals therefore require clear, up-to-date advice on how to inspect and... -
100 Contemporary Wood Buildings by Philip Jodidio
RRP: £20.00£15.29Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by new manufacturing techniques and ecological benefits,... -
Small Houses by Philip Jodidio 9783836587013
RRP: £60.00£44.95Small Houses is a tribute to the endless artistic inventiveness of architects and ingenuity of perception of the familiar and known concepts. It is also a conscious pivot towards sustainability and reduction of impact on the environment as well as a... -
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life by David Sim 9781642830187
RRP: £30.00£25.25Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to... -
Restorative Cities: urban design for mental health and wellbeing by Jenny Roe
RRP: £26.99£22.40Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of city-dwellers. With mental healthcare services under increasing pressure, could a better approach to urban design and planning... -
Building with Straw Bales: A Step-by-Step Guide by Barbara Jones
RRP: £23.00£17.49An updated, fully revised, full-colour edition of the definitive manual on building with straw bales, described by Grand Designs as an 'essential guide'. Straw-bale buildings are cost-effective, easy to build and highly energy efficient, enabling you... -
Building with Cob: A Step-by-Step Guide by Adam Weismann
RRP: £27.99£20.97The ancient method of cob building uses a simple mixture of clay sub-soil, aggregate, straw and water to create solid structural walls built without shuttering or forms, onto a stone plinth. It is now undergoing a renaissance as an 'eco-friendly'... -
Green Mallorca by Patricia Parinejad
RRP: £45.00£33.41"We discover eco-hotels, slow-food producers and green initiatives, and meet a new generation of islanders dedicated to sustainability and to preserving the lush green biodiversity that remains. A beautiful escape." -Reclaim Magazine Mallorca: the jewel... -
Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques by Kaki Hunter
RRP: £28.99£19.64Over 70 percent of Americans cannot afford to own a code-enforced, contractor-built home. This has led to widespread interest in using natural materials-straw, cob, and earth-for building homes and other buildings that are inexpensive, and that rely... -
Small Eco Houses: Living Green in Style by Francesc Zamora Mola 9780789320957
RRP: £27.50£20.29Fresh perspectives on how good design can create stylish yet ecologically sound living spaces in small-scale homes. Anyone who has faced the challenges of limited living space will find inspiration in this survey of the latest trends in environmentally... -
Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency by Sarah Ichioka 9781913743260
RRP: £28.95£22.58Regenerative design and architecture What will it take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival? Reaching beyond 'sustainability', 'regenerative' practice is increasingly named as a new goal,... -
Rethinking Sustainability in Facilities and Workplace Management by Frans Melissen
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book discusses sustainability within the facility management industry. However, it is not another anthology of so-called best practices and the seemingly endless range of certification schemes. It is also not a (marketing) guide on how to... -
Evergreen Architecture: Overgrown Buldings and Greener Living by Gestalten
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040104Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
How to Build Your Dream Cabin in the Woods: The Ultimate Guide to Building and Maintaining a Backcountry Getaway by J Wayne Fears
RRP: £16.99£12.54Now, everyone can have the refuge they want-a getaway beside a trout-filled stream, near a bass-laden lake, or by a mountain trail with a breathtaking view. This ultimate resource includes photos, blueprints, and diagrams, and covers the steps to... -
Shelter by Lloyd Kahn 9780936070117
RRP: £21.99£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936070117Author Lloyd KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 907g -
The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy by Mr David Cheshire
RRP: £34.00£28.02This book is a call to arms to all architects, designers and built environment professionals. To avoid a climate catastrophe and achieve a regenerative built environment, the use of new materials and any excess waste in resources need to be cut out from...