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Developing Tools to Enable the UK Construction Industry to Adopt the Active Building Concept for Net Zero Carbon Buildings

Joanna Clarke, John R. Littlewood Orcid Logo, George Karani

Buildings, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Start page: 304

Swansea University Author: Joanna Clarke

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The research project discussed in this paper is driven by the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) need to reduce operational energy and carbon by promoting the adoption of the Active Building (AB) concept for UK building projects. The AB concept offers a practical solution to reducing the operational energy use...

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