New energy retrofit concept: 'Renovation trains' for mass housing

Building Research and Information

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 757-767

  Rovers, Ronald ^a,b  

^a Sustainable Building Support and Consultancy ^*  (Netherlands)

^b ZUYD UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

construction management; housing; large scale; near zero energy; passive standard; prefabricated; retrofit; serial

Indexed keywords

HOUSES; HOUSING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; RETROFITTING;

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; LARGE SCALE; PREFABRICATED; RETROFIT; SERIAL; ZERO ENERGIES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84926095004     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: 14664321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2014.926764     Document Type: Article

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