Suggested Reading

GENERAL ALTERNATIVE AND GREEN BUILDING RESOURCES BOOKS

Elizabeth, Lynne and Cassandra Adams, eds. 2000.
Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Imhoff, Dan. 2001.
Building With Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood. Healdsburg, CA: Watershed Media.

Lstiburek, Joseph. 1998.
Builder's Guide: Hot-Dry and Mixed-Dry Climates. Westford, MA: Building Science Corporation.

Marinelli, Janet and Paul Bierman-Lytle. 1995.
Your Natural Home: The Complete Sourcebook and Design Manual for Creating a Healthy, Beautiful, and Environmentally Sensitive Home. Boston: Little and Brown.

National Home Builders Association Research Center. 2000.
A Guide to Developing Green Builder Programs. Upper Marlboro, MD: NAHBRC.

Pearson, David. 1989.
The Natural House Book: Creating a Healthy, Harmonious, and Ecologically-Sound Home Environment. New York: Simon and Schuster/Fireside.

Pearson, David. 1996.
The Natural House Catalog: Everything You Need to Create an Environmentally Friendly Home. New York: Simon and Schuster/Fireside.

Rocky Mountain Institute. 1998.
Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Various books on sustainable living and alternative construction methods/materials published by Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT. See catalog or http://www.chelseagreen.com/.

PERIODICALS

Building Standards, Whittier, CA.
Building Standards is the membership magazine for the International Conference of Building Officials. DCAT has been honored to contribute to a number of issues on the topic of sustainable and alternative building.

DCAT has coordinated the contents of three issues featuring alternative materials and methods:

September-October 1998 Focus on Alternative Building Materials
“Toward Less Waste and Pollution by Design” by Dennis Weaver
“Building a Sustainable Future: An Overview of Alternative Materials and Methods of Construction” by David Eisenberg
“Rammed Earth: Developing New Guidelines for an Old Material” by Joe M. Tibbets
“Adobe: A Present from the Past” by Paul McHenry, Jr.
“Straw-bale Construction” by Bruce King
“Earth Architecture and Ceramics” by Nader Khalili and Phill Vittore
“Pozzolans Unpuzzled” by Bruce King
January-February 2000
“An Alternative Future for Building Regulation” by David Eisenberg and Bob Fowler
“Earthship Building: an Ecocentric Method of Construction” by Jack Ehrhardt
“Building With Bamboo” by Darrel DeBoer
“Cob Construction” by Michael G. Smith
“Cob and the Building Code” by John Fordice
“Cast Earth: A Revolutionary Building Concept” by Michael Frerking
“Lunar and Terrestrial Sustainable Building Technology in the New Millennium: An Interview with Architect Nader Khalili” by Mahdu Thangavelu

January-February 2002 Alternative Materials and Processes

“Message from the Chairman: Green Building and Sustainability” by Fred Herman
“Building Codes for a Small Planet” by David Eisenberg
“Green Building Programs - An Overview” by Peter Yost
“Daylighting and Night Darkening” by Nancy E. Clanton
“Integrated Design” by William G. Reed
“Integrated Water Systems Design: The Beneficial Use of Non-Traditional Water Sources” by David Confer

As of 2002, David Eisenberg writes a regular column called “Building Codes for a Small Planet.”
January-February 2002
March-April 2002
May-June 2002
July-August 2002
September-October 2002
November-December 2002

Please visit the Building Standards website to check for more recent issues, including the March-April 2002 feature on Alternative Materials and Processes.

Environmental Building News, Brattleboro, VT
Environmental Building News is an outstanding journal on green building, and EBN also publishes the GreenSpec Directory and the Green Building Advisor CD-ROM).
http://www.buildinggreen.com/

Environmental Design and Construction, San Francisco, CA
http://www.EDCmag.com/
Read David Eisenberg's article “Greening of the Building Codes” from January 2001.

Home Power, Ashland, OR
http://www.homepower.com/

In Business magazine, Emmaus, PA
Of special note: The “Green Building Series” appears in the in July/August, September/October, and November/December 2000 issues (Vol. 22, No. 4, 5, 6).
http://www.inbusiness.org/inbusine.htm

Natural Home magazine, Loveland, CO
http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com/

Solar Today, Boulder, CO
http://www.solartoday.org/

ARTICLES

Waser, Katherine. 2000. “A report on the Pima County Alternative Building Materials Exhibit”
in Arid Lands Newsletter, May 2000.

HUD Building Innovation for Homeownership - Award Winners : Arizona
Description of the superinsulated straw bale project that won an award from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). DCAT was a participant in this project.

Historic Straw-Bale Structures: An Eyewitness Account
Article by David Eisenberg published on the Skillful Means website

Overview of Straw Bale Construction
Article by David Eisenberg on the Tucson - Pima County Metropolitan Energy Commission website

Jaccaci , Alex and Steven Bodzin. 1996. “New Pioneering in Straw Bale Building”in Home
Energy, July/August 1996.
Includes information on insulative qualities of straw bale and a quote by David Eisenberg.

Oldham, Jennifer. 2000. “House of Straw” in Cape Cod Times, June 4, 2000.
Feature article in the Cape Cod Times, in which David Eisenberg is quoted.

STRAW BALE BOOKS

King, Bruce. 1996.
Buildings of Earth and Straw: Structural Design for Rammed Earth and Straw-Bale Architecture. Sausalito, CA: Ecological Design Press (distributed by Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT).

Magwood, Chris and Peter Mack. 2000.
Straw Bale Building: How to Plan, Design and Build With Straw. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Press.

Myhrman, Matts and S.O. MacDonald. 1997.
Build It With Bales: A Step-by-Step Guide to Straw Bale Construction, Version Two. Tucson, AZ: Out on Bale.

Steen, Athena Swentzell, Bill Steen, David Bainbridge and David Eisenberg. 1994.
The Straw Bale House Book.
White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing.

EARTHEN MATERIALS

Center for Development of Enterprise, CRATerre-EAG, and ENTPE. 2000.
Compressed Earth Blocks: Testing Procedures. Brussels: Center for the Development of Enterprise.

Easton, David. 1996.
The Rammed Earth House Book. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing.

Houben, Hugo and Hubert Guillaud. 1989.
Earth Construction: A Comprehensive Guide. London: Intermediate Technology Publications.

King, Bruce. 1996.
Buildings of Earth and Straw: Structural Design for Rammed Earth and Straw-Bale Architecture. Sausalito, CA: Ecological Design Press (distributed by Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT).

Wojciechowska, Paula. 2001.
Building with Earth: A Guide to Flexible-Form Earthbag Construction. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing.

BAMBOO

Institute for Lightweight Structures. 1985. Bambus/Bamboo (IL 31). Stuttgart: Karl Kramer Verlag.
Janssen, Jules J.A. 1995. Building With Bamboo: A Handbook. London: Intermediate Technology Publications.