This book takes a critical view of the real cost of green building. It provides readers with a non-biased evaluation based on empirical construction cost data, and sheds light on the affordability of sustainable buildings.
Ming Hu is an Associate Professor at School of Architecture and Associate Professor at College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame, USA. Her research activities center on how to decarbonize the built environment through net-zero impact and healthy building design, and to understand how the (smart) technologies might be employed to reduce the impact from built environment to ecosystem.
