Reducing carbon from the "middle-out": The role of builders in domestic refurbishment

Buildings

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 911-936

  Janda, Kathryn B ^a   Killip, Gavin ^a   Fawcett, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Building retrofitting; Building trade; Innovation; Middle actors; Middle out change; Professional practices; Residential buildings; Small and medium sized enterprises; Socio technical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945466276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20755309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/buildings4040911     Document Type: Article

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