Environmental Impact Assessment of Buildings

This Special Issue covers a wide range of areas—including building orientation, service life, use of photocatalytically active structures and PV facades, implications of transportation system, building types (i.e., high rise, multilevel, commercial, residential), life cycle assessment, and structura...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Biswas, Wahidul K.
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منشور في: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
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life-cycle social analysis
building
travel-satisfaction
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photocatalytic construction materials
functionalized aggregate
green star concrete
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shallow plan forms
life cycle assessment
recycled aggregate
environmental remediation
block of buildings
rain cladding
LCA
sustainability
peak shaving
residential building
indoor overheating
LCI
air pollution
environmental performance
service life
nitric oxides
thermal model
coloured glass
demand response
modal-variability
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greenhouse gases
environmental life cycle assessment
sustainable-development
transit-policy
public-engagement
Multilevel buildings
building integrated photovoltaic
slag
operational energy
life-cycle social analysis
building
travel-satisfaction
TEASER
BIPV
photocatalytic construction materials
functionalized aggregate
green star concrete
work-commute
shallow plan forms
life cycle assessment
recycled aggregate
environmental remediation
block of buildings
rain cladding
LCA
sustainability
peak shaving
residential building
indoor overheating
LCI
air pollution
environmental performance
service life
nitric oxides
thermal model
coloured glass
demand response
modal-variability
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greenhouse gases
environmental life cycle assessment
sustainable-development
transit-policy
public-engagement
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building integrated photovoltaic
slag
operational energy
life-cycle social analysis
building
travel-satisfaction
TEASER
BIPV
photocatalytic construction materials
functionalized aggregate
green star concrete
work-commute
shallow plan forms
life cycle assessment
recycled aggregate
environmental remediation
block of buildings
rain cladding
LCA
sustainability
peak shaving
residential building
indoor overheating
LCI
air pollution
environmental performance
service life
nitric oxides
thermal model
coloured glass
demand response
modal-variability
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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