Implementing sustainability criteria for selecting a roof assembly typology in medium span buildings

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6854-6871

  Canto Perello, Julian ^a   Martinez Garcia, Maria P ^a   Curiel Esparza, Jorge ^a   Martin Utrillas, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Multicriteria decision making; Roof assembly; Triple bottom line

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934324092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7066854     Document Type: Article

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