Retrofitting social housing: Reflections by tenants on adopting and living with retrofit technology

Energy Efficiency

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 641-653

  Brown, Philip ^a   Swan, Will ^a   Chahal, Sharon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Places for People   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoption; In use; Retrofit; Social housing; Tenants

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; HOUSING;

ADOPTION; IN-USE; RETROFIT; SOCIAL HOUSING; TENANTS;

RETROFITTING;

ENERGY POLICY; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY; SOCIAL HOUSING; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84904423186     PISSN: 1570646X     EISSN: 15706478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-013-9245-3     Document Type: Article

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