Green residential building tools and efficiency metrics

Journal of Green Building

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 125-139

  Kallaos, James ^a   Bohne, Rolf André ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Energy; Green building; Metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887570438     PISSN: 15526100     EISSN: 19434618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3992/jgb.8.3.125     Document Type: Article

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