This GreenSource guide is essential to understanding and using the ICC's revolutionary new green construction code.International Green Construction Code (IGCC) Handbook provides design professionals, contractors, code officials, and planning/zoning officials with a concise look at what this new code will accomplish, how it works, and how to comply with its requirements. The International Green Construction Code (IGCC) is a major event in the worldwide trend toward more sustainable building construction. For the first time, a single code will capture the broad scope of sustainable construction in a clear, broad-based document. Designed to be adopted in whole or in part, the IGCC offers jurisdictions the ability to tailor the scope of the code to their needs. This GreenSource guide offers authoritative coverage of this groundbreaking new green construction code.
International Green Construction Code (IGCC) Handbook includes:
- Customized overviews for design professionals, zoning/planning officials, construction code officials
- Code Quick Tips-Illustration boxes highlighting particular aspects of the IGCC in each section
- Code Fast View-Single-page tables summarizing the scope of each section of the IGCC
- Online resources-selected tables and documents adapted to MS Word or Excel for download
- All the vital information on the code-summary of its provisions, intent of the provisions, and compliance guidelines
- Details on the connections between the IGCC and the existing family of ICC codes
- ISBN13 9780071767903
- Publish Date 16 March 2013
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 1 October 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint McGraw-Hill Professional
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English