[Architecture Ebook] Assessing Building Performance.pdf

Assessing Building Performance

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Assessing Building

Performance

Edited by

Wolfgang F.E. Preiser

Jacqueline C. Vischer

AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDON NEW YORK OXFORD

PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO

Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann

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First published 2005

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