Retrofitting residential buildings in hot and arid climates

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 2309-2319

  Al Ragom, F ^a  

^a KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Energy conservation retrofitting; Energy efficiency; Modeling and simulation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COSTS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HOUSES; RETROFITTING;

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 0037411826     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(02)00256-X     Document Type: Article

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