Life cycle environmental assessment of an educational building in Northern India: A case study

Sustainable Cities and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-28

  Varun, ^a   Sharma, Aashish ^b   Shree, Venu ^a   Nautiyal, Himanshu ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology   (India)

Author keywords

Building; Embodied energy; GHG; LCA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862577013     PISSN: 22106707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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