Sustainable Construction book is available!

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is now publishing Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery and it is available through Wiley, Amazon.com, and a wide variety of other outlets.

A companion website for the book containing a sample syllabus, teaching strategies, and other information is at http://he-cda.wiley.com/WileyCDA/HigherEdTitle/productCd-0471661139.html Instructors can contact their John Wiley representative to obtain a desk copy and access to the site. To find your Wiley representative, go to http://www.wiley.com, click on the button at left that says FIND THE RIGHT TITLE FOR YOUR COLLEGE COURSE and then click on the WHO'S MY REP link at the top of the Wiley Higher Education site, in order to get contact information about your rep.

If you are teaching or intending to teach a course about green building design and delivery, please feel free to send me materials to post to the website. I have a fairly deep library of papers related to green building written by my students over the past ten years and am considering posting these to illustrate the types of issues they have tackled, sometimes with remarkable results! If you would like to post student work and projects on this site, please let me know. I hope to develop a resource base for teaching green building courses that will permit instructors to focus on the creative aspects of teaching.

There is also a student website at same location as the instructor site. The student site contains useful information such as the various websites mentioned in the Notes and References of Sustainable Construction. These are all hyperlinked for easy use and access for both instructor and student versions of the companion site.

Your comments and suggestions are very much appreciated!

Charles J. Kibert, author of "Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery," John Wiley & Sons, 2005 

New Sustainable Construction book

I recently completed the final edits for what is probably the first professional reference and textbook covering high-performance green buildings. The book, Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, will be available from John Wiley & Sons in early February 2005 and the ISBN number is 0-471-66113-9. The purpose of the book is to provide theory, history, state of the art and best practices for this rapidly emerging new class of buildings. It is also the first book to integrate in the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED standards. John Wiley & Sons has a companion website at http://www.wiley.com/go/sustainableconstruction that will soon have a wide range of materials to assist both professors teaching classes, and professionals seeking additional materials for consumption.

If you are a professor or lecturer and would like to adopt the book for classes starting in January 2005, Wiley will provide you with copies of the first few chapters to get underway. To find your Wiley representative, go to http://www.wiley.com, click on the button at left that says FIND THE RIGHT TITLE FOR YOUR COLLEGE COURSE and then click on the WHO'S MY REP link at the top of the Wiley Higher Education site, in order to get contact information about your rep.

The companion website at John Wiley will include syllabi, lectures, teaching materials, supplementary readings, student exercises, links to notes and references in the book, and other materials to assist you in teaching the course. In the spirit of the green building movement, I invite you to submit materials to be posted on the Wiley website for use in teaching about this important new trend in design and construction. Please also feel free to contact me at anytime. My email address is ckibert@ufl.edu and my office number is +1-352-273-1189.