Selecting sustainable building materials using system dynamics and ant colony optimization

Selecting environmentally preferable building materials is one way to reduce the negative environmental impacts associated with the built environment. This paper proposes a framework that incorporates environmental and economic constraints while maximizing the number of credits reached under the Le...

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Main Authors: Mohamed Marzouk, Manal Abdelhamid, Mohamed Elsheikh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 2013-12-01
Series:Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management
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Online Access:http://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/JEELM/article/view/1938