Sustainable building assessment tool development approach

Sustainable Cities and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-62

  Alyami, Saleh H ^a   Rezgui, Yacine ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BREEAM; LEED; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870810021     PISSN: 22106707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2012.05.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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