Sustainability assessment of residential buildings by non-linear normalization procedure

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 58, Issue , 2013, Pages 348-354

  Vučićević, Biljana ^a   Stojiljković, Mladen ^b   Afgan, Naim ^c   Turanjanin, Valentina ^a   Jovanović, Marina ^a   Bakić, Vukman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

ASPID method; Building; Sustainability index

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BUILDINGS; CONSTRUCTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FUNCTIONS; HEATING; HOUSING; STATISTICS;

ASPID METHOD; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES; MATHEMATICAL PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY INDEX;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84870491231     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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