Benchmarking the energy efficiency of commercial buildings

Applied Energy

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-14

  Chung, William ^a   Hui, Y V ^a   Lam, Y Miu ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BENCHMARKING MODELS; ENERGY-USE INTENSITIES (EUI); REGRESSION MODEL;

BUILDINGS;

ENERGY;

EID: 24744433957     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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