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Assessing sustainable housing indicators: a structural equation modeling analysis

, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to propose the sustainable housing (SH) model for the housing of Region-one of Mashhad city in Iran.,Building the SH particularly increases mitigation measures as well as creates healthier environments for inhabitants by ...
Mahla Tayefi Nasrabadi, H. Hataminejad
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Earthships: sustainable housing alternative

International Journal of Sustainable Design, 2009
This paper critiques an obscure form of sustainable architecture that addresses many of the environmental, social and economic challenges facing humanity. It focuses on the work of architect, Michael Reynolds, who has been experimenting with radical house designs and construction techniques over the past three and half decades.
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Sustainable housing in steel

2008
Sustainable development includes social and environmental as well as technical aims. In construction, eco-efficiency emphasises the properties of the building, achieved by technical means to fulfil the social and environmental aims. Functionality and adaptability of the interior and indoor comfort are often the key issues for users of a building ...
Nieminen, Jyri, Nieminen, Jyri
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Sustainable, age-friendly housing

Gerontechnology, 2004
Few people would dispute the idea that environmentally sustainable, age-friendly housing is desirable for all. But as resources for housing construction are always limited, this goal may not be readily achievable. The argument put in this editorial is that independent housing for older people, particularly for those who are financially vulnerable ...
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Sustainable housing

2008
Il dibattito sulla progettazione d’edifici di civile abitazione a basso costo è stato dimenticato per molto tempo, schiacciato dall’interesse suscitato dall’effimero mondo della moda architettonica. Nel frattempo, in questo periodo d’oblio, l’edilizia residenziale è stata il campo privilegiato della ricerca di frontiera dell’architettura per la ...
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Housing data base for sustainable housing provision

ATBU Journal of Environmental Technology, 2017
The paper examined selected data requirements for housing provision in selected housing estates as applicable to house owners with the view of determining the degree of relevance to mass housing provision. The research employed a mixed method approach by collecting both quantitative and qualitative data which were analysed using descriptive analysis in
Anunobi, A.I., Adedayo, O.F., Adedokun, A.J.   +2 more
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SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL HOUSING

2014
In Italy and abroad one of the main drivers of innovation in the building sector is actually the energy sustainability; its application in residential projects is more and more crucial to the quality of the project and its effectiveness in terms of performance.
DEL GATTO, MARIA LUISA, FERRI, GIORDANA, PAVESI, ANGELA SILVIA   +2 more
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Mass Housing and Sustainability

Open House International, 2013
The world population just passed 7 billion. Fear of growth towards 35 billion, if the “high fertility rate scenario” was maintained, is reduced. The “stable fertility rate scenario” is more likely, stabilising the population around 10 billion in 2050 (Le Monde Diplomatique, 2011). In 1987, as a response to the need for focusing on housing for the lower
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Sustainable Housing

2022
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Heterogeneous preferences for sustainable housing: evidence from Poland

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
Joanna Węgrzyn, Katarzyna Kania
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