Developing a green building assessment tool for developing countries - Case of Jordan

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1053-1064

  Ali, Hikmat H ^a   Al Nsairat, Saba F ^b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b Greater Amman Municipality ^*  (Jordan)

Author keywords

Assessment tool; Developing countries; Green building; Jordan; Rating system

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; PLANNING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AHP METHOD; ASSESSMENT TOOL; ASSESSMENT TOOLS; DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; GREEN BUILDING; JORDAN; LOCAL CONDITIONS; RATING SYSTEM;

BUILDINGS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BUILDING; DESIGN; DEVELOPING WORLD; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 58749086202     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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