Energy efficient choice of brick façade in Kolkata, India

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue , 2011, Pages 737-744

  Pellegrino, Margot ^a   Thakur, Biswajit ^b   Guha, Himadri ^c   Simonetti, Marco ^d  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MEGHNAD SAHA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Politecnico di Torino ^*  (India)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benefit cost ratio; Burnt clay brick; Embodied energy, Operational energy, Energy simulation; Fly ash brick

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST ESTIMATING; COSTS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLY ASH; GLAZES; SPECIFICATIONS;

BENEFIT COST RATIOS; CLAY BRICK WALLS; CLAY BRICKS; ENERGY SIMULATION; FLY ASH BRICK; OPERATIONAL ENERGY; STANDARD PRACTICES; VARYING THICKNESS;

BRICK;

EID: 84255199700     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.11.2072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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