Assessment of building-integrated green technologies: A review and case study on applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method

Sustainable Cities and Society

Volumn 27, Issue , 2016, Pages 106-115

  Si, Jin ^a   Marjanovic Halburd, Ljiljana ^a   Nasiri, Fuzhan ^b   Bell, Sarah ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP); Building integrated green technologies; Climate change mitigation; Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods; Non domestic buildings

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; RETROFITTING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; GREEN TECHNOLOGY; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; NON-DOMESTIC BUILDINGS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84989219407     PISSN: 22106707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2016.06.013     Document Type: Article

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