Description/Review

Healthy House Building for the New Millennium

Description:
With over 200 photos and illustrations, as well as a complete set of detailed construction drawings, Healthy House Building for the New Millennium shows you everything you need to know to build a healthy house. While your home probably won't look like the one featured in this book, the important how-to information necessary to build or remodel in a healthy manner can be applied to any house. This third edition has been expanded to contain an update at the end of each chapter with new building products, techniques, options, and web sites - and there's a brand new chapter about the author's own new healthy home.

About the Author:
JOHN BOWER is the owner of The Healthy House Institute, and has been involved with healthy house construction as a designer, builder, writer, and consultant since 1984. He has personally built four healthy houses for chemically sensitive people, and consulted on the construction of many others across the country. John is the author of scores of articles in magazines ranging from Custom Builder, Journal of Light Construction, and Indoor Air Review, to East West, Greenkeeping, and Mother Earth News. He has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs, and is a regular speaker at housing conferences in the U.S. and Canada. In 1991 John was awarded a Professional Achievement Award by Professional Builder magazine for "healthy house advocacy." He has been named one of the "Indoor Environment Power 50" - a Who's Who in the Indoor Environment Industry by Indoor Environment Review, and one of "60 Influential People, Products, and Events" in the home building industry by Professional Builder magazine.