Rank of green building material criteria based on the three pillars of sustainability using the hybrid multi criteria decision making method

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 173, Issue , 2018, Pages 82-99

  Khoshnava, Seyed Meysam ^a   Rostami, Raheleh ^b   Valipour, Alireza ^a   Ismail, Mohammad ^a   Rahmat, Abdul Razak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL); Fuzzy analytic network process (FANP); Green building materials (GBMs); Hybrid multi criteria decision making (MCDM); Material selection; Sustainability criteria

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY LOGIC; HYBRID MATERIALS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DECISION MAKING TRIAL AND EVALUATION LABORATORIES; FUZZY ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; GREEN BUILDING MATERIALS; MATERIAL SELECTION; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 85006056927     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.066     Document Type: Article

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