Epistemic water consumption benchmarks for residential buildings

Building and Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1031-1035

  Wong, L T ^a   Mui, K W ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Epistemic benchmarks; Residential buildings; Sustainability; Water consumption

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; WATER CONSUMPTION;

BUILDINGS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDINGS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BENCHMARKING; BUILDING; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER USE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 38849097608     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.11.040     Document Type: Article

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