{"product_id":"9780865716407","title":"Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome 40 percent of North Americans live in homes built prior to 1940, and when it comes time to remodel or restore our older homes, homeowners and contractors can find themselves lost in a morass of wildly divergent information and opinion. With \u003ci\u003eGreen Restorations\u003c\/i\u003e, author Aaron Lubeck brings his expertise as a restoration contractor and preservation consultant to this first-of-its-kind guide, leading the reader through the steps for restoring historic buildings using sustainable practices and green building techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a readily accessible room-by-room and system-by-system format, \u003ci\u003eGreen Restorations\u003c\/i\u003e covers rehabilitation and remodeling questions applicable to old homes, focusing on the core techniques and debates often seen in practice. Here you’ll find the answers to restoration questions, such as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIs sealing my old crawl space a good idea?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShould I replace or rehabilitate my windows?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAre there historic aspects of my home I need to preserve, and what can I change?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat are the cultural, environmental, and financial implications of my proposed changes?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDo residential historic tax credits apply to my home, and how can I access them?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in such a way as to be accessible for homeowners but technical enough for contractors, this book will appeal to anyone trying to green an older home while preserving its historic and cultural significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Lubeck\u003c\/b\u003e is a partner with the award-winning Trinity Design\/Build, a restoration and preservation consultancy in North Carolina. He is a member of the United States Green Building Council, and has completed the first historic building to be LEED-certified in North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Society Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022293025008,"sku":"9780865716407","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780865716407_p0.jpg?v=1763838072","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780865716407","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}