Warm House Cool House - Inspirational Designs for Low-Energy Housing

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Thinking about building - don't go ahead until you've read this book!!

We would all like to enjoy lower electricity, gas and water bills  - but we don't always know how to achieve this. This newly updated best selling classic by Australian architect Nick Hollo, provides a simple explanation of the principles of low-energy housing design and illustrates these with more than one 100 examples from around Australia. A nation wide search from project and kit homes, new architect-designed houses, renovations and extensions, and medium density dwellings are described from all five climatic zones. The book shows how we can live comfortably without airconditioning in Far North Queensland, be cosy and bushfire-proof in the Australian Alps, and cope with temperature fluctuations in cities like Melbourne and Adelaide.

Whether you are planning to renovate, build or buy or simply create a more environmentall sustainable and comfortable home, this book will offer you inspiration and ideas on how to make any house anywhere a comfortable and attractive place to live-in all year round, while keeping electricity, gas and water bills comfortably low.

Author: Nick Hollo
Year: 2011

Product Code: BKWHCH

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