Overview

Your Home is a suite of consumer and technical guide materials and tools developed to encourage the design, construction or renovation of homes to be comfortable, healthy and more environmentally sustainable.

The Your Home Technical Manual provides information on how to design and build a more comfortable home that is less expensive to run while more environmentally friendly. Written by designers and builders, for designers and builders, it is a helpful tool for creating a home that is enjoyable to live in, cost effective and environmentally sensitive. It includes issues such as passive design, water use, material embodied energy, indoor air quality, energy use and site issues.

The Technical Manual contains over 60 individual fact sheets full of environmentally sustainable solutions for designing and building homes.

Information last verified on 6^th January 2011