Building sustainability assessment

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2010-2023

  Bragança, Luís ^a   Mateus, Ricardo ^a   Koukkari, Heli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Assessment; Building; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956366013     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2072010     Document Type: Article

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