Green Building: Project Planning and Cost Estimating (RSMeans)

Since the widely read first edition of this book, green building has gone from a growing trend to a major force in design and construction. The chapters, case studies, resources, and cost data in this book give you the whole picture on green building, including the latest on: 

• Green building approaches, materials, systems, and standards
• Energy efficiencies – with energy modeling tools
• Health, comfort, and productivity-goals and techniques
• Evaluating the cost versus value of green products over their life cycle
• Specifying green building projects – complete with a list of often-specified products/materials and a sample spec
• Low-cost green strategies and special economic incentives and funding
• Assembling the green project team and commissioning the building
• Deconstruction: a new chapter on this key element of sustainable building

FEATURES:

This 2nd edition has been completely updated with the latest in green building technologies, design concepts, standards, and costs. It includes RSMeans' Green Building Project Planning Cost Data CD-ROM at no additional cost. The CD contains: 

• More than 300 new assemblies (from high-efficiency HVAC and lighting, to living roofs, fuel cells, gray water systems, and much more) 
• Over 7,000 unit price line items for green materials and products
• Key word index
• "Virtual notes" to highlight individual lines
• Extensive estimating reference tables
• Localized costs for your geographic area

Green Building:

Project Planning & Cost Estimating

2nd Edition

By RSMeans and leading practitioners of Green Building

Since the first edition of this book, green building has gone from a growing trend to a major force in design and construction. Utility costs have skyrocketed, building codes and standards have adopted much stricter energy efficiencies, and businesses and communities have discovered green building's huge savings and health and marketing advantages. Public and private facilities, and even whole cities and counties, are increasingly required to build green.

This full-color 2nd edition has been completely updated with the latest technologies, design concepts, standards, and costs. It includes Means' Green Building CostWorks CD with nearly 300 assemblies (from high-efficiency HVAC and lighting, to renewable energy systems, to gray water systems, living roofs, and much more) and over 7,000 unit price line items for green materials and products. CostWorks also offers extensive estimating reference tools and tables and automatic cost localizers.

The chapters, case studies, resources, cost data, and more, give you the latest on:

• Green building approaches, materials, systems, and standards

• Energy efficiencies?with energy modeling tools

• Health, comfort, and productivity?goals and techniques

• Evaluating the cost versus value of green products over their life cycle

• Specifying green building projects?complete with a list of often-specified products and materials and a sample spec

• Low-cost green strategies?and economic incentives and funding

• Assembling the green project team and commissioning the building

• A new chapter on deconstruction

Among the Contributors: Mark Kalin, FAIA, FCSI, author of the original GreenSpec; Alexis Karolides, principal and team leader for the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), Seiglinde K. Fuller, Ph.D, leader of the NIST/DOE collaborative in economic analysis for energy and water conservation; Andy Walker, Ph.D, PE, senior engineer with NREL; and Joseph Macaluso, AACE, certified cost consultant.