Including recycling potential in energy use into the life-cycle of buildings

Building Research and Information

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 176-183

  Thormark, Catarina ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Building materials; Demolition; Embodied energy; Environment; Life cycle analysis; Recycling; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001372049     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096132100368948     Document Type: Article

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