Achieving building energy performance requirements and evaluation methods for residential buildings in Sweden, Norway, and Finland

Building energy performance has always been important in the cold climate of Sweden, Norway and Finland. To meet the goal that all new buildings should be nearly zero-energy buildings by 2020, set ...

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