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Publication Review

Title: Building Innovation for Homeownership
Author: HUD, 1998
File: Free Book, PDF 11.8 MB, 178 pages
Audience: Written for builders and designers. Also interesting for homeowners with some prior knowledge of construction.

Review
A book outlining the latest advancements in alternative construction and design supplying affordable homes to the American market. Explores various alternatives through examples.

Issues covered include:

• Modular housing
• HUD Code or manufactured housing
• Energy efficient affordable construction
• Panelized construction
• Structural insulated panels, sips
• Steel Framing
• Cohousing
• Masonry, adobe, aerated concrete, and concrete homes
• Sustainable design and construction, straw bales,
• Site design, clustered development

Detail drawing include:

• Many photos and some floor plans and drawings graphically explaining each example.
• Some good technical drawings like a nice exploded axonometric of panelized construction.

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