Carbon footprint versus performance of aluminum, plastic, and wood window frames from cradle to gate

Buildings

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 542-553

  Sinha, Arijit ^a   Kutnar, Andreja ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Life cycle analysis; Thermal performance; Window frames

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901988688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20755309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/buildings2040542     Document Type: Article

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