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Residential retrofit in the climate emergency: the role of metrics Cover

Residential retrofit in the climate emergency: the role of metrics

By: Tina Fawcett and  Marina Topouzi  
Open Access
|Aug 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.37 | Journal eISSN: 2632-6655
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