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Healthy cities: The evidence and what to do with it (2017)
Journal Article
Carmichael, L. (2017). Healthy cities: The evidence and what to do with it. Urban Design -New Series-, 142, 20-22

Laurence Carmichael shows how urban designers can help improve wellbeing

Briefing: The role of human values in behavioural safety (2017)
Journal Article
Allen, C., Bell, N., Manu, E., Gibb, A., Manu, P., Gibb, A., & Nick, B. (2017). Briefing: The role of human values in behavioural safety. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 170(2), 49-51. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmapl.16.00047

While behaviour-based safety (BBS) is not new and is even becoming increasingly common, particularly among large construction organisations, research on BBS and hence its implementation has paid limited attention to the role of innate drivers of beha... Read More about Briefing: The role of human values in behavioural safety.

Critical BIM qualification criteria for construction pre-qualification and selection (2017)
Journal Article
Mahamadu, A. M., Mahdjoubi, L., & Booth, C. (2017). Critical BIM qualification criteria for construction pre-qualification and selection. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 13(5), 326-343. https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2017.1296812

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Despite emerging research on Building Information Modelling (BIM) capability, there remain no studies that specifically look at criteria for the pre-qualification and selection of constr... Read More about Critical BIM qualification criteria for construction pre-qualification and selection.

Microbial inoculants as a soil remediation tool for extensive green roofs (2017)
Journal Article
Rumble, H., & Gange, A. C. (2017). Microbial inoculants as a soil remediation tool for extensive green roofs. Ecological Engineering, 102, 188-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.01.025

Green roofs are increasingly used in the urban environment to insulate buildings, reduce stormwater runoff and remediate biodiversity lost in construction. Most common in the Northern Hemisphere are extensive green roofs, due to their low-cost and lo... Read More about Microbial inoculants as a soil remediation tool for extensive green roofs.

Impact of the position of the window in the reveal of a cavity wall on the heat loss and the internal surface temperature of the head of an opening with a steel lintel (2017)
Journal Article
Sierra, F., Gething, B., Bai, J., & Maksoud, T. (2017). Impact of the position of the window in the reveal of a cavity wall on the heat loss and the internal surface temperature of the head of an opening with a steel lintel. Energy and Buildings, 142, 23-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.02.037

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The interface between the head of the window and the wall represents one of the largest thermal bridges of a building and one of the areas with the highest risk of surface condensation. This paper confirmed the importance, and in... Read More about Impact of the position of the window in the reveal of a cavity wall on the heat loss and the internal surface temperature of the head of an opening with a steel lintel.

Briefing: Defining safety leadership in construction (2017)
Journal Article
Umar, T. (2017). Briefing: Defining safety leadership in construction. Proceedings of the ICE - Municipal Engineer, 170(1), 3-5. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmuen.16.00004

This briefing explores the tenets of safety leadership within the construction environment. The scope of this briefing aims to define a universal definition of safety leadership with key components from literature review. Without a clear definition t... Read More about Briefing: Defining safety leadership in construction.

Recognising barriers to implementation of Blue-Green Infrastructure: A Newcastle case study (2017)
Journal Article
O’Donnell, E. C., Lamond, J., & Thorne, C. R. (2017). Recognising barriers to implementation of Blue-Green Infrastructure: A Newcastle case study. Urban Water Journal, 14(9), 964-971. https://doi.org/10.1080/1573062X.2017.1279190

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. There is a recognised need for a fundamental change in how the UK manages urban water and flood risk in response to increasingly frequent rainfall events coup... Read More about Recognising barriers to implementation of Blue-Green Infrastructure: A Newcastle case study.

Brexit and the future of Scottish fisheries – key legal issues in a changing regulatory landscape (2017)
Journal Article
Appleby, T., & Harrison, J. (2017). Brexit and the future of Scottish fisheries – key legal issues in a changing regulatory landscape. Journal of Water Law, 25(3), 124-132

Brexit will overshadow the development of fisheries legislation for the next decade. The UK Government had developed no plan in the event of a “leave” vote for June’s advisory referendum and the months since the vote have been mired in politics and... Read More about Brexit and the future of Scottish fisheries – key legal issues in a changing regulatory landscape.

Measuring embodied carbon dioxide equivalent of buildings: A review and critique of current industry practice (2017)
Journal Article
De Wolf, C., Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2017). Measuring embodied carbon dioxide equivalent of buildings: A review and critique of current industry practice. Energy and Buildings, 140, 68-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.01.075

Lowering the embodied carbon dioxide equivalent (embodied CO2e) of buildings is an essential response to national and global targets for carbon reduction. Globally, construction industry is developing tools, databases and practices for measuring embo... Read More about Measuring embodied carbon dioxide equivalent of buildings: A review and critique of current industry practice.