Released on: August 15, 2008, 9:45 am

Press Release Author: Ken Mark MacBean, BS, MET/ MS, PhD(abd), MLArch, MRINA

Industry: Environment

Press Release Summary: What happens when developers, builders and owners save 15-60%
on the final cost of a building due to the use of an alternative green foundation
system? Award-winning designs can be constructed on green engineering systems
presented by, Ken Mark MacBean, BS, MET/ MS, PhD(abd), MLArch, MRINA - who answers
all such questions and more in the book; Green Design-The Architecture of
Affordability.

Press Release Body: In this concise writing the author describes a new direction in
use of traditional materials and processes to provide environmentally-sound and
cost-effective buildings which can be incorporated into low-and high-end projects
for the full-range of architectural types, styles and configurations. The primer
addresses resource protection and structural engineering of efficient, quality light
foundations, which could revolutionize the affordability of housing, globally, when
compared with other more conventional technologies.

The book expediently covers ecological design and engineering factors, international
resources, materials and public policy issues in environmental design. But this
work is not an attempt to critique all alternative design technologies, nor is it an
analysis of the social acceptability of all construction practices. Instead, what is
presented is one superior method for dramatically lowering the cost of building
construction while acknowledging that the only lasting means to affordable building
is in the ongoing reconsideration of why we build as we do, and the honest
examination of how low-impact resources and practices can be used to affect the kind
of practical changes needed in affordable-to-build shelters for owner's and the
environment.

This one-of-a-kind guide is a must for the green minded home builder,
forward-thinking homeowner, and sustainable-design professional and public
leadership all over the world who are facing affordable housing dilemmas or
shortages in supply of conventionally buildable home sites. For the first time, this
book describes the low-cost and high-benefit foundation planning applied in resort,
coastal, port and beach housing investments which can now be used by all, including
the expanding category of flood and storm serge recovery zone housing and landslide
or reclaimed land conversion to residential property developments.

Meet the Author: Ken Mark MacBean is an architect, designer, and scientist by
training, and a published architectural journalist/multi-book author. He is known as
the innovative social entrepreneur/founder of IDAD and principal of MDLA Design
Consultancy featured in the top architecture & engineering firm report by
Hospitality Construction Magazine. He is considered by many authorities to have an
original design philosophy, and he receives invitations to many design venues,
including those by developers, who have placed his name on their international
roster of top architects and planners.

ISBN 1-60474-741-2

Buy the Book from the publisher or at any Book Outlet World-Wide

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Web Site: http://www.kenneth.idad.org

Contact Details: Contact the author at:
kmacbean@dcemail.com