Life-cycle energy analysis of buildings: A case study

Building Research and Information

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-41

  Fay, Roger ^a   Treloar, Graham ^a   Iyer Raniga, Usha ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Embodied energy; Energy analysis; Life cycle; Residential buildings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006257784     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096132100369073     Document Type: Article

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