A multidisciplinary literature review of low and zero carbon technologies into new housing

Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2012 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1435-1444

  Bevan, Whitney ^a   Lu, Shu Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Low and zero carbon (LZC) technology; Multidisciplinary literature review; New build housing; Zero carbon new housing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911438515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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