Multicriterial sustainability assessment of residential buildings;Daugiakriterinis gyvenamųjų namų darnos vertinimas

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 612-630

  Zavrl, Marjana Sijanec ^a   Žarnić, Roko ^b   Šelih, Jana ^a,b  

^a SLOVENIAN NATIONAL BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Assessment method; Construction quality; Decision method; Labelling; Residential building; Sustainability indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951077715     PISSN: 20294913     EISSN: 20294921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/1392-8619.2009.15.612-630     Document Type: Article

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