Recent progress on net zero energy buildings

Advances in Building Energy Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-162

  Kapsalaki, Maria ^a   Leal, Vitor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Building design; Energy efficient building; Net zero energy building; Sustainable building; Zero carbon building

Indexed keywords

BUILDING DESIGN; ENERGY-EFFICIENT BUILDINGS; NET-ZERO ENERGY BUILDING; SUSTAINABLE BUILDING; ZERO CARBON BUILDING;

DESIGN; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; RESEARCH;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79960739640     PISSN: 17512549     EISSN: 17562201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512549.2011.582352     Document Type: Article

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