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Articles/Publications by Peter Yost

A Feasibility Study and Cost Analysis: Recycling Construction Site Gypsum Wallboard Waste – Master’s Thesis, University of New Hampshire, Resource Economics, 1993.

“A new methodology for quantifying construction waste” – Yost, Peter; Halstead, John. Sustainable Construction: Proceedings from the First International Conference of CIB TG 16. pgs 373 – 381. University of Florida. 1994.

“An Evaluation of Thermal Comfort and Energy Consumption for a Surface-Mounted Ceiling Radiant Panel Heating System” – Yost, P.A; Barbour, C.E.; Watson, R.; ASHRAE Trans. 1995, Vol.101, Part 1, Paper number CH-95-19-3, 1221-1235, 4 figs., 4 tabs., refs.

“Construction and Demolition Waste: Innovative Assessment and Management” – Reshaping the Built Environment: Ecology, Ethics, and Economics. Chapter 10. Island Press. 1999.

“Green and Growing,” Professional Builder, September, 1999.

“Beneficial Reuse of Aggregate Mineral Fines and Scrap New Construction Wallboard” – Korcak, R.F.; Meininger, R.; Yost, Peter A.; Land Application of Agricultural, Industrial, and Municipal By-Products; SSSA Book Series No. 6, Chapter 21, 2000.

Environmental Building News feature articles authored by Peter Yost:

  • Deconstruction: Back to the Future for Buildings? May 2000
  • Safer Pest Control: Management of Wood-Destroying Insects. (co-author) September 2000
  • Greening Your Business. October 2000
  • Interior Finish Systems: Judging a Building by Its Inside Cover. November 2000
  • Building Green ... Quietly: Noise Pollution and What to Do About It. January 2001
  • Building-Integrated Photovoltaics: Putting Power Production Where It Belongs. (co-author) March 2001
  • Getting the “Right Stuff”: A Guide to Green Building Materials Retailers. April 2001
  • Plastics in Construction: Performance and Affordability at What Cost? (co-author) July/August 2001
  • Sustainability and Building Codes. September 2001

"A Transparent, Interactive Software Environment for Communicating Life-Cycle Assessment Results: An Application to Residential Windows" by Gregory A. Norris and Peter Yost, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 5, Issue 4 - Fall 2001. Life-cycle assessments (LCAs) can be used to support the selection of environmentally preferable building materials. But the dominance of the usage phase in the life cycle of building materials represents a special challenge. A prototype software tool, the Life Cycle Explorer, has been developed that enables decision makers to assess the relative importance of literally dozens of such influential parameters in determining the outcomes of LCA evaluations for building components.

"Green Building Programs -- An Overview" by Peter Yost, Building Standards Magazine, March - April 2002, pgs. 12-16.  Yost uses an overview of local green building programs to show what they have meant to some building officials or jurisdictions, and what they can mean to those looking for an inter-relationship among the codes, green building, and  building science. This article is offered here with permission from Building Standards magazine. The article is in just one of three issues in which Building Standards has featured green building. These issues have been developed in a partnership with the Development Center for Appropriate Technology, a partner with BSC in the Building America program. For more information, go to: www.icbo.org/Building_Standards_Online/  or www.azstarnet.com/~dcat/BSM.html.

Using Wood Efficiently: From Optimizing Design to Minimizing the Dumpster
August 2002, Stephen Baczek, Peter Yost, and Stephanie Finegan. Americans have been building homes with wood -- shaping logs, joining timbers, nailing studs -- for almost 400 years. Our current approach -- stick-framing -- grew popular in the mid-1800’s (particularly in the rapidly growing “West”) because it took less skill, required simpler tools, and took fewer people than timber framing. We apparently really like waste haulers, too. The NAHB Research Center reports that the “typical” home generates about 3,500 pounds of wood waste during its construction, about half of which is solid sawn lumber.

"Optimizing Wood Framing," Peter Yost and Ann Edminster, 2003. BSC makes the case for each and every advanced framing strategy, both in the field and in the building official's office. This article originally appeared in the May 2003 issue of Building Safety Journal. It is reprinted with permission from the International Code Council.

 “Sustainability from Dwelling to Development: Making the Connection Between High Performance Homes and Communities” – ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings – 2004 Proceedings. August, 2004.

Department of Energy’s Building America Deliverables authored principally by Peter Yost:

"Green and Growing,” Professional Builder, September, 1999.
 

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