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Indoor Environment and Assessment

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High-rise buildings became popular due to increasing urbanization and land prices combined with advances in structure and construction technologies. By the mid-twentieth century, high-rise buildings featuring steel structural frames and glass exterior sheathing had become a standard feature of the architectural landscape in most countries worldwide (Encyclopædia 2013).

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Li, B., Yao, R. (2017). Indoor Environment and Assessment. In: Sayigh, A. (eds) Sustainable High Rise Buildings in Urban Zones. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17756-4_4

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