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  <dc:title>Improved Life Cycle Performance for Construction of Big Box Retail: Pidgeon_MastersBoards</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Pidgeon, Amanda</dc:creator>
  <dc:subject>life cycle analysis</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Walmart</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>construction assemblies</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>big box store</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>embodied energy</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Building technologies</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Sustainable architecture</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>This project compares multiple construction materials and assemblies in order to find options which will improve the life cycle performance of retail big box structures, using Walmart Supercenters as a specific case study. It utilizes the Athena EcoCalculator to accomplish this task.</dc:description>
  <dc:contributor>Kultermann, Eva</dc:contributor>
  <dc:date>2012-05-02</dc:date>
  <dc:date>2012-05</dc:date>
  <dc:type>Master&apos;s project</dc:type>
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  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>islandora:11552</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2744</dc:identifier>
  <dc:source>ARCH / Architecture</dc:source>
  <dc:source>Illinois Institute of Technology</dc:source>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:rights>Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>In Copyright</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>Open Access</dc:rights>
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