Making buildings energy-efficient through retrofits: A survey of available technologies

IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Basuroy, Sreya ^a   Chuah, Jun Wei ^a   Jha, Niraj K ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy conservation; green buildings

Indexed keywords

BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES; COMMERCIAL BUILDING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDINGS; ENERGY SAVINGS POTENTIAL; ENERGY-EFFICIENT BUILDINGS; GREEN BUILDINGS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS; TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; RETROFITTING; TECHNOLOGY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84893176331     PISSN: 19449925     EISSN: 19449933     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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