Green building consultant Marian Keeler and Bill Burke, the architectural program coordinator at the Pacific Energy Center in San Francisco, provide an intelligent and in-depth introduction to green building concepts.

Packed with charts, diagrams and highlight boxes to emphasize points, this resource covers the basic principles of the integrated building design process, energy efficiency, water quality and conservation, waste impact and management, lifecycle assessment and more.

Readers get a good dose of history and philosophy along with solid information on design technologies and best practices.