A life cycle environmental and economic assessment of optimum value engineering in houses

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 19-25

  Meil, Jamie ^a,b   Lucuik, Mark ^c   O'Connor, Jennifer ^d   Dangerfield, Jim ^d  

^a ANJAcor Inc   (Canada)

^b Athena Sustainable Materials Institute   (Canada)

^c Morrison Hershfield Limited   (Canada)

^d FORINTEK CANADA CORP   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); OPTIMUM VALUE ENGINEERING (OVE) CONCEPT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HOUSES; LIFE CYCLE;

VALUE ENGINEERING;

HOUSES; LIFE CYCLE; VALUE ADDED;

EID: 33749600926     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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