National Green Building Standard™
by: NAHB
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About This Book:
The National Green Building standard™, recently approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
A collaborative effort between the ICC and NAHB, the Standard provides the “green” practices that can be incorporated into new homes, including high-rise multifamily buildings, home remodeling and additions, hotels and motels, and the site upon which the green homes are located.
The green practices include:
- lot design, preparation and development
- resource, energy, and water efficiency
- indoor environmental quality
- operation, maintenance, and building owner education
The four threshold levels, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Emerald provide builders with a means to achieve basic, entry-level green building, or achieve the highest level of sustainable “green” building that incorporates energy savings of 60 percent or higher. The Standard can be used by any builder for their individual projects, or be the basis for a local community or state green building program.
**The Standard is the first residential green building rating system to have undergone the full consensus process and to be submitted to the American National Standards Institute for approval.**
NAHB-OSHA Fall Protection Handbook, English-Spanish
by: NAHB Labor, Safety, & Health Services
About This Book:
Prevent construction-related falls! This handbook explains in simple language what builders, remodelers, and other industry professionals can do to comply with OSHA fall protection standards. You will learn how to eliminate the most common fall hazards found on home building jobsites.
In an easy-to-use English-Spanish format, the handbook provides guidelines for establishing a written fall protection plan and identifies safe work practices that can prevent costly accidents and injuries.
The clear text, photographs and drawings with captions demonstrate how to
- Select and use the right ladder
- Protect stairways, leading edges, window and wall openings, and floor holes
- Use a personal fall arrest system (PFAS)
- Safely build and erect exterior and balloon-framed walls
- Safely construct rafters and install roof trusses and sheathing
- Provide fall protection for application of roofing materials
- Guard against implement hazards
- Provide protection from falling objects
- Use safe work practices to protect workers working at heights
- Train workers to identify fall protection hazards
Profit from Building Green: Award Winning Tips to Build Energy Efficient Homes
by: Jeannie Leggett Sikora
About This Book:
Develop an effective green home building business with the NAHB Research Center’s resident expert, Jeannie Leggett Sikora. She has combed through hundreds of annual contest entries and talked with past award winners to develop specific examples and tried-and-true techniques to give home builders the inside track to create successful green building practices, from choosing building products through marketing energy efficient houses.
Jeannie Leggett Sikora
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