Utility costs: a survey of Swiss office buildings

Journal of Facilities Management

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 120-131

  Stoy, Christian ^a   Kytzia, Susanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Landscape Architecture   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Energy management; Office buildings; Switzerland; Waste disposal

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951594046     PISSN: 14725967     EISSN: 17410983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14725960810872640     Document Type: Article

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