Books on Building and Housing

Green Building is an excellent quarterly magazine started by the AECB (see below). You can subscribe on their website and while you're there, roam around and see what they are discussing in the forum - or ask a question! They aslo publish the Green Building Bible and have an online Green Product directory (£11.75 one-off registration fee)

Always worth a ramble round this web-based bookseller http://www.eco-logicbooks.com/

Eco Construction Group 

Insulation

natural insulation

As part of the current discussion of insulation materials there is a downloadable PDF file from the Energy Saving Trust called 'Advanced Insulation in Housing Refurbishment'

There are many other interesting things on the EST website pages for building professionals at http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk

The Association for Environment Conscious Building - AECB - currently has many threads on its discussion forum - one of which is a comparison of man made insulation and sheepswool. Check it out at http://www.aecb.net/

GreenSpec is the UK construction industry's guide to 'green' building design, products, specification and construction. Here are 2 links that discuss insulation http://www.greenspec.co.uk/html/materials/insulation.html discusses general issues and then http://www.greenspec.co.uk/html/products/list681a.html lists a large range of insulation materials for different uses and rates them under several criteria - click the internal links to get lots more info