Outputs (118)

Exploring Chinese students’ experience of curriculum internationalisation: a comparative study of Scotland and Australia (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Society for Research into Higher Education. Increasing enrolment of Chinese students has become a key feature of internationalisation for Western universities, but there is limited research into how curriculum internationalisation affects Chin... Read More about Exploring Chinese students’ experience of curriculum internationalisation: a comparative study of Scotland and Australia.

Cement stabilisation of crude-oil-contaminated soil (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, Thomas Telford Services Ltd. All rights reserved. Crude-oil-contaminated soils are usually considered unsuitable construction materials for earthworks. This paper presents an experimental investigation of the effects of applying Portland ceme... Read More about Cement stabilisation of crude-oil-contaminated soil.

The role of public gardens in enhancing diabetic patients’ health and wellbeing (2016)
Journal Article

Cities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have experienced rapid uncontrolled urbanism due to the absence of robust planning measures. This causes lack or ill distributions of facilities and segregation between these facilities and the residences i... Read More about The role of public gardens in enhancing diabetic patients’ health and wellbeing.

Improving urban grassland for people and wildlife (2016)
Other

Access to nature is beneficial to human health. How can designed urban meadows help to enhance public well-being and urban biodiversity?

Access to nature is beneficial to human health and well-being, yet over 80% of the UK population now live in u... Read More about Improving urban grassland for people and wildlife.

Using safety climate as a tool for improvement of safety performance in construction organisations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Data from a number of industrialized countries show that construction workers are 3 to 4 times more likely than other workers to die from accidents at work. In the developing world, the risks associated with construction work may be 3 to 6 times grea... Read More about Using safety climate as a tool for improvement of safety performance in construction organisations.

A review of construction safety, challenges and opportunities: Oman perspective (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Data from a number of industrialized countries show that construction workers are 3 to 4 times more likely than other workers to die from accidents at work. In the developing world, the risks associated with construction work may be 3 to 6 times grea... Read More about A review of construction safety, challenges and opportunities: Oman perspective.

Aural spatial mapping tool: Constraining the signal sphere of influence validation (WIP) (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper is part of an on-going investigation with the
primary objective of developing a computational modeling
tool for urban design that generates qualitative aural spatial patterns. The architect is the target user of this computational tool.... Read More about Aural spatial mapping tool: Constraining the signal sphere of influence validation (WIP).

Initiating and continuing participation in citizen science for natural history (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Everett and Geoghegan. Background: Natural history has a long tradition in the UK, dating back to before Charles Darwin. Developing from a principally amateur pursuit, natural history continues to attract both amateur and professional involvem... Read More about Initiating and continuing participation in citizen science for natural history.

Alignment between Lean Principles and Practices and Worker Safety Behavior (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers. Alignment and synergy between the areas of lean construction and safety management are expected because all near misses and injury incidents represent waste from the lean perspective. This paper describes a... Read More about Alignment between Lean Principles and Practices and Worker Safety Behavior.

Indoor navigation from point clouds: 3D modelling and obstacle detection (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the recent years, indoor modelling and navigation has become a research of interest because many stakeholders require navigation assistance in various application scenarios. The navigational assistance for blind or wheelchair people, building cris... Read More about Indoor navigation from point clouds: 3D modelling and obstacle detection.