Green buildings for greying people: A case study of a retirement village in Australia

Facilities

Volumn 32, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 365-381

  Zuo, Jian ^a   Xia, Bo ^b   Barker, Jake ^a   Skitmore, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging population; Australia; Case studies; Green building; Retirement village

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920507546     PISSN: 02632772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/F-08-2011-0060     Document Type: Article

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