Build it underground : a guide for the self-builder & building professional / David Carter ; introduction by Robert L. Roy.

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Carter, David (Underground building consultant)

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Build it underground : a guide for the self-builder & building professional / David Carter ; introduction by Robert L. Roy.

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208 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes metric conversion chart, glossary, preplanning checklist, builder's checklist, and index.
Introduction -- A historical perspective --Preplanning considerations -- Permits, insurance and financing -- Purchasing land -- Basic earth-shelter modes -- Prairie cocoon -- Trench house -- Railroad tie house -- Deep woods A-frame -- Mobile home earth shelters -- Round concrete structures -- Convertible crescent -- Starlight earth lodge -- Cordwood courtyard -- Easy arch system -- Double hex -- Wondrous warren -- Stairway house -- Geotecture : self-supporting tunnelled space -- Energy-efficient systems -- Landscaping -- Spatial perceptions and uses -- Commercial applications.

Summary:

Today's styles of earth shelters--not only homes, but commercial and utility buildings--are so new, builders, architects, and engineers are hungry for information. Author David Carter, design and construction consultant, delivers vital information about building these low-cost, energy-efficient structures. Leading both the owner-builder and the building professional through the maze of pre-planning--as necessary as the building itself--the author stresses that new kinds of building demand new kinds of thinking. The text examines the financing, planning, construction, and landscaping of a variety of designs of underground houses, office buildings, schools, factories, and other structures.

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ISBN:

080695454X
9780806954547
0806954558 (lib. bdg.)
9780806954554 (lib. bdg.)
0806975822 (pbk.)
9780806975825 (pbk.)

Subject:

Earth sheltered houses.
Underground architecture.
Underground construction.
Architecture souterraine.
Constructions souterraines.
underground structures.
underground buildings.

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Guide for the self-builder & building professional

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Location: Library main 266151
Call No.: BIB 197770
Status: Available

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