Essential Composting Toilets - Gord Baird, Ann Baird

Essential Composting Toilets

A Guide to Options, Design, Installation, and Use

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Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2018
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-86571-872-2 (ISBN)
36,15 inkl. MwSt
Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined, illustrated manual that takes a practical approach to system selection criteria, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives.
From wastestream to mainstream, a practical guide to composting toilet systems.



Composting toilets are a key feature for local resilience, money saving, water conservation, resource recovery, septic system replacement, and an improved bathroom experience in rural and urban buildings.



Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined manual that takes a practical, how-to approach to composting toilet system selection, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives. Drawing from existing regulations and research, this book dispels myths and provides tools to assess various systems. It includes:





Easily-understood drawings, plans, and photos
Coverage of all main composting toilet systems
Selection criteria including site considerations, urine separation pros/cons, renovations/new builds, ventilation, servicing, and composting details
Design and installation details.



Offering a professional approach accessible to DIYers, homeowners, designers, building consultants, water conservation advocates, and regulators, Essential Composting Toilets provides key information for redesigning toilet systems anywhere in the world.

Gord Baird, BA, ARCSA AP and Ann Baird, BSc are the co-creators, designers, and builders of the award winning Eco-Sense home in Victoria, BC, Canada, the first internationally recognized Living Building Challenge petal residential project. They implemented greywater systems, rainwater harvesting, and composting toilets into North America's first legal two-story seismically engineered load-bearing cob home. Gord is Water Commissioner for the Capital Regional District's regional Water Supply Commission and Juan de Fuca Water Distribution Commission, and was a technical editor for the BC Ministry of Health's Manual of Composting Toilets and Greywater Standard Practices (2016). Ann works on regional climate action initiatives involving water, food, and energy resiliency in climate adaptation and risk management. They currently give tours of their Eco-sense permaculture homestead in Victoria, BC. www.eco-sense.ca.

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Safe Composting
Chapter 3: System Components and Processes
Chapter 4: Design Considerations
Chapter 5: Commode Batch Systems
Chapter 6: Chambered/Moldering Batch Systems
Chapter 7: Continuous Systems
Chapter 8: Fluid Management
Chapter 9: Best Practices
Chapter 10: The Last Flush

Appendix A: Percolation Test Procedure
Appendix B: Manufacturers
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author
A Note About the Publisher

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Sustainable Building Essentials Series
Zusatzinfo 24 Plates, color; 65 Halftones, black and white; 30 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Gabriola Island
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 279 mm
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Heimwerken / Do it yourself
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 0-86571-872-5 / 0865718725
ISBN-13 978-0-86571-872-2 / 9780865718722
Zustand Neuware
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