Energy-led retrofitting of solid wall dwellings - Technical and user perspectives on airtightness

COBRA 2011 - Proceedings of RICS Construction and Property Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 430-440

  Banfill, Phil ^a   Simpson, Sophie ^a   Haines, Victoria ^b   Mallaband, Becky ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airtightness; Dwellings; Householders attitudes; Mechanical ventilation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874987340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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