Performance evaluation of cost effective buildings - A cost, emissions and employment point of view

Building and Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 75-90

  Tiwari, Piyush ^a   Parikh, Jyoti ^a   Sharma, Vinod ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; COST ACCOUNTING; EMPLOYMENT; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PERFORMANCE;

COST EFFECTIVE BUILDINGS; LOCALLY AVAILABLE BUILDING MATERIALS;

HOUSES;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; HOUSING COSTS;

INDIA;

EID: 0029668706     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-1323(95)00010-0     Document Type: Article

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