A quest for sustainable materials for building elements in Sri Lanka: Foundations

Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 370-381

  Abeysundara, U G Yasantha ^a   Babel, Sandhya ^b  

^a Ministry of Education   (Sri Lanka)

^b THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Economic score; Embodied energy; Material selection matrix; Social factor; Sustainable materials

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC SCORE; EMBODIED ENERGY; MATERIAL SELECTION MATRIX; SOCIAL FACTOR; SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS;

BRICKMAKING; BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETE AGGREGATES; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; NUTRIENTS; REUSABILITY;

BRICK;

EID: 77956458496     PISSN: 19447442     EISSN: 19447450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.10420     Document Type: Article

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