Integrated life-cycle assessment and thermal dynamic simulation of alternative scenarios for the roof retrofit of a house

Building and Environment

Volumn 81, Issue , 2014, Pages 204-215

  Rodrigues, Carla ^a   Freire, Fausto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Building retrofit; Environmental impacts; Life cycle assessment (LCA); Thermal dynamic simulation; Thermal insulation materials

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INSULATING MATERIALS; LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE; MINERAL WOOL; RETROFITTING; ROOFS; THERMAL INSULATION;

ADDITIONAL INSULATION; BUILDING RETROFITS; ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENES; INSULATION MATERIALS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; THERMAL INSULATION MATERIALS; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS;

LIFE CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

BUILDING; DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; ROOF; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84904460557     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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