Recent advances in sustainable buildings: Review of the energy and cost performance of the state-of-the-art best practices from around the world

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 38, Issue , 2013, Pages 281-309

  Harvey, L D Danny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

advanced buildings; building energy use; building retrofits

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY USE; BUILDING RETROFITS; COMMERCIAL BUILDING; CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; STANDARD PRACTICES; SUSTAINABLE BUILDING;

HEATING; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; RETROFITTING;

COSTS;

EID: 84887413273     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-070312-101940     Document Type: Article

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