Cost-benefit analysis of green buildings: An Israeli office buildings case study

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 76, Issue , 2014, Pages 558-564

  Gabay, Hadas ^a   Meir, Isaac A ^b   Schwartz, Moshe ^b   Werzberger, Elia ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Green building; Office building; Public building

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL COSTS; BUILDING TYPES; COST OF COMPLIANCE; COST-BENEFIT MODELS; DIFFERENT SIZES; GREEN BUILDING STANDARDS; GREEN BUILDINGS; PUBLIC BUILDINGS;

BUILDING CODES; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INVESTMENTS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

COSTS;

EID: 84898071077     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.02.027     Document Type: Article

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