All Outputs (7)

Barriers to the adoption of lean construction in the UK construction industry (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Purpose: The UK construction industry has long struggled with improving quality and efficiency, despite numerous reform efforts over the years. Persistent performance issues, compounded by recent crises, highlight the need for transformative solution... Read More about Barriers to the adoption of lean construction in the UK construction industry.

Peak complexity – Why nothing works any more (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

How many times have system failures – technical, human or both – caused you loss, frustration or wasted time? Have you ever dealt with customer services or technical support who seemed powerless to fix the problem? Could these growing frustrations of... Read More about Peak complexity – Why nothing works any more.

Design as emergent making design as emergent making (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Through design practice, this research seeks mutually beneficial possibilities and connections that can be made between making and architecture. It asks how space can be discovered and accrued through full scale making, rather than pre-imagined via s... Read More about Design as emergent making design as emergent making.

Socio-temporal dynamics and spatial scales for future home energy transitions and crisis planning -UK insights (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Planning for future equitable home energy transitions and electrification is dependent on multidimensional technical, social, temporal, and spatial insights. Despite growing calls to integrate social, spatial, and temporal insights, most studies have... Read More about Socio-temporal dynamics and spatial scales for future home energy transitions and crisis planning -UK insights.

Written evidence to the climate change, environment and infrastructure committee of the Welsh Government on the infrastructure (Wales) bill (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

The Planning Advisory Service commissioned the University of West of England (UWE) to research the role that Local Planning Authorities (LPA) can play in delivering housing-led development on brownfield land. The research resulted in a set of case st... Read More about The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports.

Experiences of ‘citizen science’, Pushing the boundaries: Exploring ‘citizen science’ and community participation across research
Preprint / Working Paper

This is the first in a series of short discussion papers, sharing learnings and reflections from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)-funded Citizen Science Collaboration Grants (CSCG). It focuses on the experience of doing ‘citizen science’.1 This... Read More about Experiences of ‘citizen science’, Pushing the boundaries: Exploring ‘citizen science’ and community participation across research.