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Buildings Don't Lie: Better Buildings by Understanding Basic Building Science
Hardcover – January 1, 2017
by Henry Gifford (Author)

A simple, clear, thorough, and complete explanation of basic building science applicable to any building in any climate. Over 1,000 large color drawings and photos, plus fun quizzes. No charts, graphs, or math. Read this book and become your own expert on making buildings comfortable, healthy, safe, durable, and very energy efficient, because you will understand the underlying science of the movement through buildings of heat, air, water, light, sound, fire, and pests, and how these can be controlled. This book also includes sections on designing building enclosures, indoor air quality, choosing heating and cooling systems, and how to ventilate, heat, and cool different types of buildings.

Henry Gifford comments:

Yes, I wrote and published that book, now in its fourth printing. Book is divided up into chapters on basic science, nothing about buildings, followed by that science applied to buildings, to learn the science better and to understand buildings better. Could ruin some of your teenage offspring for some college science classes.

Gyve Bones appreciates:

I am grateful and obliged to Henry for his magnificent book. I have long lamented not having an owner's manual for my house and this would seem to fill that need—not only the owner's manual, but the service manual as well, and along the way lessons in physics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, natural philosophy, and practical engineering. Very well illustrated and pains-takingly explained. I am enjoying learning so much I took for granted or was ignorant of in the science and technology of creating and maintaining a comfort-able habitable shelter.


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  1. Rob on August 17, 2024 1:31 am

    Does it contain information that is useful for earth material building, like compact earth blocks?

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