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Key players share their experiences from working on green building projects

How can building teams design, build and operate commercial and institutional projects that are truly green? How can they deliver buildings that will save at least 50 percent of energy use against standard buildings? The way buildings are designed and constructed must change to reduce overall carbon dioxide emissions below 1990 levels, the current Kyoto target.

In Green Building Through Integrated Design (McGraw-Hill; October 2008; Hardcover: $65.00), Jerry Yudelson, one of the foremost experts in the field, delivers a step-by-step process for planning, designing, constructing, and operating high-performance green buildings - covering the entire process of building a certified green building.

This heavily-illustrated book is an important resource for anyone who wants to leapfrog years of experiential learning and get right to the heart of effective design process management for green building design. It features interviews with key players to illuminate the integrated design process, including relevant issues, difficult challenges, and problem-solving techniques.

Part of McGraw-Hill's GreenSource series, and published in partnership with the International Code Council, the book includes real-world examples and case studies from which core principles and practices of integrated design, as practiced by leading architects, engineers, builders, developers, and owners, can be extracted.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jerry Yudelson is Principal of Yudelson Associates, a green building consultancy based in Tucson, Arizona, where he works for architects, developers, builders, and manufacturers to develop sustainable design solutions. His work on design projects involves early stage consultation, eco-charrette facilitation, and providing LEED expertise and coaching for design teams. Mr. Yudelson serves as a LEED national faculty member for the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Since 2001, he has trained more than 3,500 building industry professionals in the LEED rating system. He has served on the USGBC's national board of directors, and since 2004, has chaired the steering committee for the USGBC's annual conference, Greenbuild - the largest green building conference in the world.

Additional titles in McGraw-Hill's GreenSource series include:
• Solar Power in Building Design: The Engineer's Complete Design Resource by Peter Gevorkian
• Emerald Architecture: Case Studies in Green Building by GreenSource: The Magazine of Sustainable Design
• The Engineering Guide to LEED-New Construction: Sustainable Construction for Engineers by Liv Haselbach
• The Green Building Bottom Line: The Real Cost of Sustainable Building by Martin Melaver and Phyllis Mueller (available November 2008)

About GreenSource
A mainstay in the green building market since 2006, GreenSource magazine and GreenSourceMag.com are produced by the editors of McGraw-Hill Construction, in partnership with editors at BuildingGreen, Inc., with support from the United States Green Building Council. GreenSource has received numerous awards, including American Business Media's 2008 Neal Award for Best Website and 2007 Neal Award for Best Start-up Publication, and FOLIO magazine's 2007 Ozzie Awards for "Best Design, New Magazine" and "Best Overall Design." Recognized for responding to the needs and demands of the profession, GreenSource is a leader in covering noteworthy trends in sustainable design and best practice case studies. Its award-winning content will continue to benefit key specifiers and buyers in the green design and construction industry through the books in the GreenSource Series.

GREEN BUILDING THROUGH INTEGRATED DESIGN by Jerry Yudelson
McGraw-Hill; October 2008; Hardcover: $65.00; 288 pages; ISBN-10: 0-07-1546014; ISBN-13: 978-0-07-1546010

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