Sustainability assessment frameworks, evaluation tools and metrics for buildings and its environment - A review

Proceedings of Building Simulation 2011: 12th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 350-357

  Srinivasan, Ravi S ^a,b   Braham, William W ^b   Campbell, Daniel E ^c   Curcija, D Charlie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TOOLS; ANALYTICAL TOOL; DIFFERENT SCALE; EVALUATION TOOL; MEASUREMENT SCIENCE; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT;

BUILDINGS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84870351439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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