Outputs (130)

From public leadership to civic leadership: How place-based innovation can help societies recover from COVID-19 (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Societies across the world now face at least four major challenges at once: 1) The COVID-19 health emergency; 2) A sharp economic downturn arising from the pandemic; 3) The global climate and ecological emergencies; and 4) Disturbing increases in soc... Read More about From public leadership to civic leadership: How place-based innovation can help societies recover from COVID-19.

Stuff and space in the home: An understanding of material possessions to inform spatial storage design (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the field of architecture, there has been little research on how the accumulation of material possessions is impacting on space for living in the home. There has been little understanding of what households own, collect, store and dispose of, nor... Read More about Stuff and space in the home: An understanding of material possessions to inform spatial storage design.

Envisioning Building-as-Energy-Service in the European context. From a literature review to a conceptual framework (2021)
Journal Article

Positive Energy Buildings (PEBs) represent an emerging paradigm for high performance in the building sector. This paradigm focuses on the possibility of exploiting the interaction between individual NZEBs and smart Smart Grids, using energy surplus e... Read More about Envisioning Building-as-Energy-Service in the European context. From a literature review to a conceptual framework.

Challenges of BIM implementation in GCC construction industry (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: In some regions including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region where construction is one of the main industries, the implementation of BIM is still at a slow rate. This article attempts to know the current situation of BIM and explore t... Read More about Challenges of BIM implementation in GCC construction industry.

Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings: Lessons learned from Sri Lanka (2021)
Journal Article

Growing concerns over the importance of reducing the embodied carbon (EC) of buildings have led to a greater focus on EC-related research and policymaking. Nevertheless, the Sri Lankan building sector is currently lagging behind on this issue. While... Read More about Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings: Lessons learned from Sri Lanka.

Textured building façades: Utilizing morphological adaptations found in nature for evaporative cooling (2021)
Journal Article

The overheating of buildings and their need for mechanical cooling is a growing issue as a result of climate change. The main aim of this paper is to examine the impact of surface texture on heat loss capabilities of concrete panels through evaporati... Read More about Textured building façades: Utilizing morphological adaptations found in nature for evaporative cooling.

A review of the causes of construction waste generation in Nigeria and recommendations (2021)
Journal Article

The causes of construction waste (CW) in Nigeria have been a major topic for researchers over the last 15 years. However, no effort had been made to analyse these studies to understand the trends. A structured review of 30 research studies investigat... Read More about A review of the causes of construction waste generation in Nigeria and recommendations.

Germany shows how strengthening local power is key to recovery (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine

Freiburg, a small, innovative city in southern Germany, provides insights on how to improve civic leadership and city planning in the UK. Proposals for Dietenbach, a new eco-friendly neighbourhood designed to house 15,000 people are outlined. Three... Read More about Germany shows how strengthening local power is key to recovery.

The limits of Intellectual Property: Exhaustion of rights, international trademarks and digital copyright (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper

Strong Intellectual Property (IP) protection is a fundamental point in the establishment of a market for new products and services. IP can give significant power to the owner of intangible assets in financing, manufacturing or in general commercial t... Read More about The limits of Intellectual Property: Exhaustion of rights, international trademarks and digital copyright.

A sense of legitimacy in low-impact developments: Experiences and perspectives of communities in South-West England (2021)
Journal Article

Informality in the global North has been largely overlooked in literature to date (Devlin, 2018). Unlike the global South, the role of informal practices in northern countries are under-represented in both theory and practice. Despite this, informali... Read More about A sense of legitimacy in low-impact developments: Experiences and perspectives of communities in South-West England.