The investigation of the barriers in developing green building in Malaysia

Modern Applied Science

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Samari, Milad ^a   Godrati, Nariman ^a   Esmaeilifar, Reza ^a   Olfat, Parnaz ^a   Shafiei, Mohd Wira Mohd ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Barriers; Green building; Malaysia; Sustainable construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874676828     PISSN: 19131844     EISSN: 19131852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/mas.v7n2p1     Document Type: Article

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