Engineering sustainable solutions through off-site manufacture

Technology, Design and Process Innovation in the Built Environment

Volumn 9780203928325, Issue , 2009, Pages 355-370

  Blismas, Nick ^a   Wakefield, Ron ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OFF SITES; SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION;

EID: 84870169147     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203928325     Document Type: Chapter

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