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Sustainable procurement in the NHS: Barriers and enablers to staff behavioural change (2025)
Journal Article
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Background/Aims
There is a strong ethical impetus and a growing policy requirement for healthcare institutions to reduce their environmental impact. Procurement is area with significant opportunities to reduce the negative impacts of healt... Read More about Sustainable procurement in the NHS: Barriers and enablers to staff behavioural change.
Holistic education for a resilient future: An integrated biomimetic approach for architectural pedagogy (2025)
Journal Article
The pressing need to address climate change and environmentally related challenges highlights the importance of reimagining educational approaches to equip students with the skills required for innovation and sustainability. This study proposes a nov... Read More about Holistic education for a resilient future: An integrated biomimetic approach for architectural pedagogy.
AI as a path to architectural design knowledge (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper explores the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a path to architectural design knowledge through the lens of phenomenology. It positions AI not as a replacement for human creativity but as a collaborator within an emerging creative ec... Read More about AI as a path to architectural design knowledge.
Psycho-behavioural determinants of vulnerable road user safety: A review (2025)
Journal Article
Safe, accessible and sustainable transportation systems should be an accepted expectation for everyone. Unfortunately, vulnerable road users (VRUs), which include cyclists, e-scooters, motorcyclists, pedestrians and people with disabilities, are ofte... Read More about Psycho-behavioural determinants of vulnerable road user safety: A review.
Bridging innovation and practice: Assessing the readiness for 3D printing in construction (2025)
Journal Article
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Design/methodology/approach (limit 100 words):
The literature review discusses both the benefits—such as lower labour costs, faster construction times, and less material waste—and the drawbacks—such as high initial costs, reliance on tra... Read More about Bridging innovation and practice: Assessing the readiness for 3D printing in construction.
BIM maturity and its influence on BIM implementation challenges: The perspectives of UK contractors (2025)
Journal Article
Building information modelling (BIM) offers a powerful means to enhance collaboration and efficiency in construction project delivery. However, many organisations still face persistent technical, organisational, and environmental challenges during im... Read More about BIM maturity and its influence on BIM implementation challenges: The perspectives of UK contractors.
Towards effective knowledge co-production and deliberation: developing public engagement competencies among scientists and policymakers (2025)
Journal Article
Governments committed to the Paris Agreement are obligated to empower the public to participate in decision-making on climate change. Research shows that higher levels of public engagement (PE) lead to fairer, more inclusive, and socially acceptable... Read More about Towards effective knowledge co-production and deliberation: developing public engagement competencies among scientists and policymakers.
Lanes, clusters, sightlines: Modelling patient flow in medical clinics (2025)
Journal Article
Lengthy waiting times for ophthalmology appointments in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) increased with the COVID-19 pandemic, necessitating a different approach to triaging patients safely and swiftly. Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust therefo... Read More about Lanes, clusters, sightlines: Modelling patient flow in medical clinics.
Exploring student and staff perceptions of opportunities and challenges associated with Generative AI (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper presents ongoing research at UWE Bristol which explores the perceptions and use of Generative AI tools in Higher Education teaching and learning. This work is based on a university-wide survey of over 300 respondents and captures current p... Read More about Exploring student and staff perceptions of opportunities and challenges associated with Generative AI.
A systematic review of occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction (2025)
Journal Article
The construction industry is facing increased pressure to enhance efficiency and safety, owing to its high incident rates. Modular integrated construction (MiC) has gained significant attention from scholars and practitioners as a viable means of enh... Read More about A systematic review of occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction.
Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China (2025)
Journal Article
Purpose: Design for Safety (DfS) has been studied as an effective method to reduce injuries and fatalities in construction. Although the benefits of implementing DfS are gradually being recognised, there is limited research on DfS in developing count... Read More about Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China.
A decision-making framework for early-stage design of positive energy blocks (2025)
Journal Article
Positive Energy Block (PEBlock) is an emerging energy paradigm described as a mesoscale model distinct from building and district scale models. The paper's novel methodology introduces a first-of-its-kind three-level early-stage design framework for... Read More about A decision-making framework for early-stage design of positive energy blocks.
The right to the river: Exclusive parks along the Nile in Cairo (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A new politics of welfare? The origins and strategies of India’s gig and platform workers’ unions in the era of digital capitalism (2025)
Journal Article
During and after the months of pandemic control measures, newly formed unions of platform and gig workers in India started leveraging electoral contests, campaigns and politics to advocate for and with laws that would regulate platform work and provi... Read More about A new politics of welfare? The origins and strategies of India’s gig and platform workers’ unions in the era of digital capitalism.
Applications of immersive technology in architecture, engineering, and construction - An introduction (2025)
Book Chapter
Globally, the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sectors make an enormous contribution to the socio-economic development of nations, which is primarily evidenced by its creation/provision of the built environment. The sector has, howev... Read More about Applications of immersive technology in architecture, engineering, and construction - An introduction.
Challenges of Egypt’s North Coast in the absence of landscape architects (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IFLA EUROPE NED_NET GROUP
The IFLA Europe Med_net Group unites countries that either border the Mediterranean or share similar climatic and environmental conditions. While primarily composed of members from the IFLA European Region, the group also... Read More about Challenges of Egypt’s North Coast in the absence of landscape architects.
Negotiated, approved … ignored? Regulating development after approval in England and Germany (2025)
Journal Article
Delivery and enforcement have received comparatively less attention in planning practice and research than plan making and the granting of development rights. Once planning permission has been granted or a binding land use plan has been approved, th... Read More about Negotiated, approved … ignored? Regulating development after approval in England and Germany.
Estimating household water storage from images: A machine learning approach (2025)
Journal Article
Whilst much research focusses on challenges related to achieving SDG 6.1 (universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water), there has been less attention to challenges of safe transport, storage and use of collected water. In par... Read More about Estimating household water storage from images: A machine learning approach.
Vision led planning - How to plan development and transport infrastructure more sustainably (2025)
Report
This guide is intended to help plan development and transport infrastructure by using an approach that limits road construction and car travel – an approach that helps grow prosperity; meets decarbonisation objectives; and delivers more sustainable,... Read More about Vision led planning - How to plan development and transport infrastructure more sustainably.