Intelligent Sustainable Design: Integration of Carbon Accounting and Building Information Modeling
Publication: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 137, Issue 2
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Acknowledgments
We thank Drexel University’s Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Department for the use of SimaPro LCA software. We thank one anonymous reviewer for providing comments that have improved this manuscript.
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Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 137 • Issue 2 • April 2011
Pages: 51 - 54
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Received: Aug 26, 2010
Accepted: Sep 4, 2010
Published online: Mar 15, 2011
Published in print: Apr 1, 2011
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