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A balanced diet for construction workers to improve safety and productivity (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Umar, T. (2020). A balanced diet for construction workers to improve safety and productivity. In F. Sherratt, B. Hare, & F. Emuze (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint CIB W099 & TG59 International Web-Conference 2020: Good Health, Wellbeing & Decent Work

The United Nations (UN) under its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers around the world. Although the deadline to achieve the UN SDGs is approaching faster... Read More about A balanced diet for construction workers to improve safety and productivity.

Review on multi-criteria decision analysis in sustainable manufacturing decision making (2020)
Journal Article
Jamwal, A., Agrawal, R., Sharma, M., & Kumar, V. (2021). Review on multi-criteria decision analysis in sustainable manufacturing decision making. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 14(3), 202-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/19397038.2020.1866708

At present sustainable development, assessment of sustainable manufacturing practices, and prioritisation of barriers, drivers, and indicators have become complex due to the involvement of existing benchmarks like social, economical, technical, and e... Read More about Review on multi-criteria decision analysis in sustainable manufacturing decision making.

Developing a sustainable concrete using ceramic waste powder (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Umar, T., Tahir, A., Egbu, C., Honnurvali, M. S., Saidani, M., & Al-Bayati, A. J. (2021). Developing a sustainable concrete using ceramic waste powder. In S. Ahmed, P. Hampton, S. Azhar, & A. D Saul (Eds.), Collaboration and Integration in Construction, Engineering, Management and Technology (157-162). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48465-1_27

The change from a traditional utilization based society to a sustainable society is urgently needed because of the contamination of the natural environment, the depletion of the natural resources and the reduced capacity of the final waste disposal a... Read More about Developing a sustainable concrete using ceramic waste powder.

Making future floating cities sustainable: A way forward (2020)
Journal Article
Umar, T. (2020). Making future floating cities sustainable: A way forward. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning, 173, 214-237. https://doi.org/10.1680/jurdp.19.00015

It is expected that by 2030, 5 billion of the earth's population will live in cities. This growth in urbanisation results in significant challenges pertaining to environmental and social sustainability. Most of the cities are located near coastal are... Read More about Making future floating cities sustainable: A way forward.

Transport and health: a personal and UK perspective (2020)
Book Chapter
Davis, A. (2020). Transport and health: a personal and UK perspective. In C. Curtis (Ed.), Handbook of Sustainable Transport (48-57). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900477.00016

Starting in an era where three quantifiable impacts of road transport were viewed as the sum total of impacts – casualties and air and noise pollution – from the embryo of the evolving transport and health interdisciplinary field is charted from the... Read More about Transport and health: a personal and UK perspective.

Turning points in car ownership over the life course: Contributions from biographical interviews and panel data (2020)
Book Chapter
Chatterjee, K., & Clark, B. (2020). Turning points in car ownership over the life course: Contributions from biographical interviews and panel data. In Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course (17-32). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907810

There is still much to learn about why people make major changes to their personal mobility. It is challenging to identify the points in time when people make major changes in their personal mobility and the circumstances in which such changes take p... Read More about Turning points in car ownership over the life course: Contributions from biographical interviews and panel data.

A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership (2020)
Journal Article
Marco, E. (2020). A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership. Buildings & Cities,

The B&C special issue EDUCATION & TRAINING: MAINSTREAMING ZERO CARBON raised three challenges: How can education and training be rapidly changed to ensure the creation of zero-carbon built environments? How can this transition be implemented success... Read More about A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership.

Questioning the ‘real’ and ‘natural’: A case study on diamonds (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Boons, S. (2020, December). Questioning the ‘real’ and ‘natural’: A case study on diamonds. Presented at Art of Research 2020, Aalto, Finland

The aim of the presentation is to explore and question the definitions assigned to materials and their promotion as natural’ and ‘real’. When it comes to identifying materials, how many processes applied to the material can be justified for it to be... Read More about Questioning the ‘real’ and ‘natural’: A case study on diamonds.

Public written statement to the UN WGEPAD 27th Session: The urgency of now - Systemic racism and the lessons of 2020 (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Olaiya, M.A., H. B. A. (2020). Public written statement to the UN WGEPAD 27th Session: The urgency of now - Systemic racism and the lessons of 2020.

The UN WGEPAD 27th public session: "The Urgency of Now - Systemic Racism and the Lessons of 2020" was held between 30 November to 3 December. This thematic session built on the WGEPAD’s COVID-19 report, systemic racism and global protests, and set t... Read More about Public written statement to the UN WGEPAD 27th Session: The urgency of now - Systemic racism and the lessons of 2020.

Urban Regeneration in the UK (2020)
Book
Tallon, A. (2020). Urban Regeneration in the UK. (3rd). London: Routledge

Third edition covering the context for regeneration, national urban policy from 1945-2020, city-level responses to urban change and key contemporary issues.

Written statement to the 26th Session of the UN Working Group of Experts on people of African descent : Regional meeting with civil society - Europe and North America (2020)
Other
Olaiya, M.A., H. B. A. (2020). Written statement to the 26th Session of the UN Working Group of Experts on people of African descent : Regional meeting with civil society - Europe and North America. United Nations

Written statements were made to a series of regional meetings designed to allow the Working Group of Experts on people of African Descent to engage with and learn from civil society and its experiences, to ascertain the situation on the ground thus f... Read More about Written statement to the 26th Session of the UN Working Group of Experts on people of African descent : Regional meeting with civil society - Europe and North America.

Exploring the drivers and barriers to green supply chain management implementation: A study of independent UK restaurants (2020)
Journal Article
Meager, S., Kumar, V., Ekren, B., & Paddeu, D. (2020). Exploring the drivers and barriers to green supply chain management implementation: A study of independent UK restaurants. Procedia Manufacturing, 51(30th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM2021)), 1642-1649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2020.10.229

This is an exploratory study into the drivers and barriers faced by independent restaurants when implementing green supply chain management (GSCM) practices. There is a limited evidence in the literature that attempts to explore GSCM implementation p... Read More about Exploring the drivers and barriers to green supply chain management implementation: A study of independent UK restaurants.

Christian engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Brooks, I. (2020, November). Christian engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Presented at Christian Rural and Environmental Studies, Online

Conference report on research into the state of Christian engagement with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Focus on the UK). Reports on interviews with stakeholders and quantitative research using page counts on church web do... Read More about Christian engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Cyclical construction workforce shortage: An evaluation of the current shortage in Western North Carolina (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Bayati, A. J., Tafazzoli, M., York, D. D., & Umar, T. (2020). Cyclical construction workforce shortage: An evaluation of the current shortage in Western North Carolina. In Construction Research Congress 2020 (643-650). https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784482872.070

The inadequate supply of skilled construction craft workers is an issue that currently affects the performance of the construction industry. The performance of the construction industry has a significant influence on the growth of the national econom... Read More about Cyclical construction workforce shortage: An evaluation of the current shortage in Western North Carolina.

Biofilm management; Investigating the inhibitory effects of chlorine-based disinfectants on biofilms (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Clayton, G., Thorn, R., & Reynolds, D. (in press). Biofilm management; Investigating the inhibitory effects of chlorine-based disinfectants on biofilms

Summary of key findings Direct disinfection of established Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by electrochemically activated solutions [ECAS] exhibited significantly greater anti-biofilm activity compared to NaOCl and HOCl at free chlorine concentratio... Read More about Biofilm management; Investigating the inhibitory effects of chlorine-based disinfectants on biofilms.

Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (2020). Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom. Primary Science, 21-23

This article considers how primary science curriculum planning can be framed around the Sustainable Development Goals (2015). As a case study it presents how learning about insects on a bug hunt in the playground can quickly transform into more cont... Read More about Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom.

Design optimization of grid-connected PV-Hydrogen for energy prosumers considering sector-coupling paradigm: Case study of a university building in Algeria (2020)
Journal Article
Mokhtara, C., Negrou, B., Settou, N., Bouferrouk, A., & Yao, Y. (2021). Design optimization of grid-connected PV-Hydrogen for energy prosumers considering sector-coupling paradigm: Case study of a university building in Algeria. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 46(75), 37564-37582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.10.069

Integrating sector coupling technologies into Hydrogen (H2) based hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) is becoming a promising way to create energy prosumers, despite the very little research work being done in this largely unexplored field. In thi... Read More about Design optimization of grid-connected PV-Hydrogen for energy prosumers considering sector-coupling paradigm: Case study of a university building in Algeria.

Minimum energy efficiency – is the energy performance certificate a suitable foundation? (2020)
Journal Article
Organ, S. (2021). Minimum energy efficiency – is the energy performance certificate a suitable foundation?. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 39(4), 581-601. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBPA-03-2020-0016

Purpose Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of our time. The existing housing stock is a crucial component in achieving international and national climate change targets through energy efficiency improvements. The private rental... Read More about Minimum energy efficiency – is the energy performance certificate a suitable foundation?.