Literature Review of the Potential Energy Savings and Retention Water from Green Roofs in Comparison with Conventional Ones

Tselekis, Kyriakoulis

Literature Review of the Potential Energy Savings and Retention Water from Green Roofs in Comparison with Conventional Ones

Environmental and Climate Technologies

Volume 9 (2012): Issue 2012 (December 2012)

By: Kyriakoulis Tselekis

Open Access

|Dec 2012

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