ENS 253: Environmentally Friendly Buildings

Primo allows you to search across a large portion of the library's collections to explore topics, identify relevant databases, and evaluate the results, all within a single search experience including books, journal articles, and more.

Keyword Searches:

Try: keyword searches relevant to your topic. "green building" AND roof* 

Pro Tip: Remember to first familiarize yourself with specific terminology. For example, instead of searching for "green building" AND Insulation try searching for Closed-cell SPF (a specific type of insulation). Remember to look at the GreenBuilding.com product guides for specific materials (i.e. Product Guide for Spray Foam Insulation)

Subject Searches:

Look at the subjects for a book that is of interest to you.  Follow the subject links to more resources on the topic.

Below are some examples of subject searches that might be helpful:

Sustainable architecture

Sustainable Buildings Design and Construction

Dwellings Environmental Engineering

The Journals Search lists what journals and newspapers the library has access to. If you have found a citation and want to see if you can get to the full-text, use this type of search to look for the journal title.

Here are a couple of tips: 

• If you don't know what journal titles to search for, look at the journal titles that came up in your Primo search. In the case below, I might want to search in the journal Construction & Building Materials for other articles on the same topic.
• You can also mine the class readings for other journal titles.