Outputs (155)

Form follows environment: Biomimetic approaches to building envelope design for environmental adaptation (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 by the authors. Building envelopes represent the interface between the outdoor environment and the indoor occupied spaces. They are often considered as barriers and shields, limiting solutions that adapt to environmental changes. Nature provid... Read More about Form follows environment: Biomimetic approaches to building envelope design for environmental adaptation.

Place principals: Leadership in planning (2017)
Journal Article

This short article argues that planning professionals and academics need to focus much more attention on the role of planners as place-based leaders. It argues that the role of leadership has been seriously neglected in planning theory and aims to... Read More about Place principals: Leadership in planning.

Briefing: Cost of accidents in the construction industry of Oman (2017)
Journal Article

In this paper, ongoing and planned projects for the financial year 2015-2016 in different sectors in Oman are presented. While specific focus is on the construction industry, the costs of accidents associated with the projects in different sectors ar... Read More about Briefing: Cost of accidents in the construction industry of Oman.

Briefing: Using ‘safety climate factors’ to improve construction safety (2017)
Journal Article

This briefing discusses the health and safety problems in the construction industry. The focus is on safety performance improvement by using ‘safety climate factors’. Construction organisations can assess their safety climate factors by using a safet... Read More about Briefing: Using ‘safety climate factors’ to improve construction safety.

All about the ‘wow factor’? The relationships between aesthetics, restorative effect and perceived biodiversity in designed urban planting (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Authors Urban populations experience the multiple health and well-being benefits of nature predominantly via urban green infrastructure. If this is to be designed and managed optimally for both nature and people, there is an urgent need fo... Read More about All about the ‘wow factor’? The relationships between aesthetics, restorative effect and perceived biodiversity in designed urban planting.

Healthy architecture: Designing health into architectural research (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As a society, we spend 90% of out time indoors and only 10% outdoors. Yet much of the focus for healthy cities is on outdoor space and external environments. Whilst it is important to consider all aspects of a healthy city, at present there is a disp... Read More about Healthy architecture: Designing health into architectural research.

Transatlantic lessons for UK cities (2017)
Journal Article

This short article examines the efforts being taken by US cities to resist the divisive policies being introduced by President Donald Trump. It notes that only 25% of America's 250 million adults voted for the reality TV showman, and that many US ci... Read More about Transatlantic lessons for UK cities.

Factors affecting communication quality in project teams (2017)
Journal Article

Communication planning in project teams is one of the fundamental tasks of project managers. Despite the fact that model of the communication process is well described in the literature, few studies have focused on detailed measures of the process an... Read More about Factors affecting communication quality in project teams.

Enacting dialog through an architectural model (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The research focuses on how people use and experience today’s domestic space in relation to accumulated material possessions within an architectural discourse. In order to assess this, a sensory ethnographical research method, using a physical obje... Read More about Enacting dialog through an architectural model.

We're in danger of creating featherweight mayors (2017)
Journal Article

This short article suggests that the new 'metro mayors' being elected to lead six city regions in England on 4 May 2017 could turn out to be 'featherweight mayors'. This is because the powers of these new mayors are far too limited. They have no ta... Read More about We're in danger of creating featherweight mayors.