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colleagues:</span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-justify:inter-ideograph" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span> </div>
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optimization framework for minimal building life cycle cost cooperating with
DOW Building Solution. We would like to invite you to participate in a survey
to understand the importance of life cycle optimization from a designer's point
of view. This survey is a significant input of the research. Your response
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<span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">In total, it should take 5 minutes to complete the
questionnaire. The information participants provide will be maintained strictly
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<span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Guiyuan Han, PhD Candidate</span></div>
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