A comparative study of benchmarking approaches for non-domestic buildings: Part 1 – Top-down approach

International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 119-130

  Hong, Sung Min ^a   Paterson, Greig ^a   Burman, Esfandiar ^b   Steadman, Philip ^a   Mumovic, Dejan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Display Energy Certificate; Energy benchmark; Energy efficiency; Non domestic building; School

Indexed keywords

EID: 84999723694     PISSN: 22126090     EISSN: 22126104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsbe.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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