Selecting the most appropriate corrective actions for energy saving in existing buildings A/C in hot arid regions

Building Simulation

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 537-545

  Al Widyan, Mohamad I ^a,b   Al Oqla, Faris M ^a  

^a KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

analytical hierarchy process (AHP); buildings A C; corrective actions; decision support systems; energy savings; hot arid regions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900434719     PISSN: 19963599     EISSN: 19968744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-013-0170-3     Document Type: Article

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