Energy efficiency for reducing carbon footprint in historic buildings: Comparing case in the UK and Malaysia

Advances in Environmental Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 82-84

  Loron, Mehrdad Sahraei ^a   Ismail, Sumarni ^a   Mohd Yunos, Mohd Yazid B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Energy efficiency; Historic buildings; The UK and Malaysia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963865593     PISSN: 19950756     EISSN: 19981066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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