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Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability
Rebecca L. Henn and Andrew J. Hoffman
Abstract
Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, or powering machines and devices in buildings. Despite decades of investment in green construction technologies, residential and commercial buildings remain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspects of green construction to examine the cultural, social, and organizational shifts that sustainable building requires, examining the fundamental challenge to centuries-long traditions in design and construction that green buil ... More
Keywords: buildings, energy, green construction technologies, energy inefficient, environmental concerns, green building, sustainable construction
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780262019415 |
| Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: January 2014 | DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262019415.001.0001 |
