Outputs (97)

‘Like a life in a cage’: Understanding child play and social interaction in Somali refugee families in the UK (2019)
Journal Article

Migration to a different culture may affect opportunities for play and social interaction, essential for children’s developing cognitive and social skills. We asked Somali migrant women about experiences of childhood (both while growing up themselve... Read More about ‘Like a life in a cage’: Understanding child play and social interaction in Somali refugee families in the UK.

Development of a design for occupational safety and health capability maturity model (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Design for occupational safety and health (DfOSH) is growing in prominence in the construction sector. Consequently, designers (as individuals or organisations) are expected to mitigate occupational health and safety risks through design. In order fo... Read More about Development of a design for occupational safety and health capability maturity model.

Design for safety implementation factors: a literature review (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Decisions made during the design stage of construction works can significantly reduce the risk of occurrence of occupational accidents, injuries and illnesses. Moreover, it has been established that design... Read More about Design for safety implementation factors: a literature review.

Comparison of prediction tools to determine their reliability on calculating operational heating consumption by monitoring no-fines concrete dwellings (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Nowadays most retrofit decisions are based on reducing CO2 / heating consumption. The aim of this study was to determine the reliability of three tools (RdSAP, SAP and IES) often used to predict these reductions. Three no-fines c... Read More about Comparison of prediction tools to determine their reliability on calculating operational heating consumption by monitoring no-fines concrete dwellings.

Disaggregating high-resolution gas metering data using pattern recognition (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Growing concern about the scale and extent of the gap between predicted and actual energy performance of new and retrofitted UK homes has led to a surge in the development of new tools and technologies trying to address the probl... Read More about Disaggregating high-resolution gas metering data using pattern recognition.

A dynamic approach for evacuees’ distribution and optimal routing in hazardous environments (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. In a complex built environment, the situation changes rapidly during an emergency event. Typically, available systems rely heavily on a static scenario in the calculation of safest routes for evacuation. In addition, egress route... Read More about A dynamic approach for evacuees’ distribution and optimal routing in hazardous environments.

HBIM: Low-cost sensors and environmental data in heritage buildings - A guide for practitioners and professionals (2018)
Report

This guide is intended to introduce the heritage conservation professional to the use of low cost sensors to capture environmental data in occupied heritage buildings, for the purposes of enhancing the heritage preservation practice with the capabili... Read More about HBIM: Low-cost sensors and environmental data in heritage buildings - A guide for practitioners and professionals.

A comparison of data collection methods for spatial analysis (2018)
Report

This report looks at three methods for capturing the geometry of buildings and their elements to be used in the generation of energy models of those buildings. A heritage building in Salford, UK, is used as a case study, receiving each data collectio... Read More about A comparison of data collection methods for spatial analysis.

Towards an automated photogrammetry-based approach for monitoring and controlling construction site activities (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. The construction industry has a poor productivity record, which was predominantly ascribed to inadequate monitoring of how a project is progressing at any given time. Most available approaches do not offer key stakeholders a shar... Read More about Towards an automated photogrammetry-based approach for monitoring and controlling construction site activities.

Building Information Systems in the Construction Industry (2018)
Book

The selected papers in this book deal with Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations. Application of BIM throughout the construction industry is progressing at an accelerated rate, with the development of new softwar... Read More about Building Information Systems in the Construction Industry.