Sustainable non-metallic building materials

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 400-427

  Joseph, Paul ^a   Tretsiakova McNally, Svetlana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Building materials; Construction; Sustainability; Sustainable buildings

Indexed keywords

EID: 80755150331     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2020400     Document Type: Review

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