Life cycle assessment of an apartment building: Comparison of an attributional and consequential approach

Energy Procedia

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 132-140

  Buyle, Matthias ^a   Braet, Johan ^a   Audenaert, Amaryllis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ALCA; Case study; CLCA; Life cycle assessment; Sustainable building

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923414416     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.12.374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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