Developing a residential building-related social sustainability assessment framework and its implications for BIM

Sustainable Cities and Society

Volumn 28, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-15

  Ahmad, Tayyab ^a   Thaheem, Muhammad Jamaluddin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

BIM; BIM plugin application; Framework development; Indicators; Social sustainability

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; DECISION MAKING; HOUSING; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); OFFICE BUILDINGS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FRAMEWORK DEVELOPMENT; PLUG-INS; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS; SUSTAINABLE DECISION MAKINGS; SUSTAINABLE HOUSING;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 84983487391     PISSN: 22106707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2016.08.002     Document Type: Article

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