Contextualizing green building rating systems: Case study of Hong Kong

Habitat International

Volumn 44, Issue , 2014, Pages 282-289

  Gou, Zhonghua ^a   Lau, Stephen Siu Yu ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

BEAM plus; China GBL; Green building; LEED; Revision and contextualization

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; CERTIFICATION; DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SUSTAINABILITY; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84907334345     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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