Outputs (2233)

Optimisation of embodied carbon and compressive strength in low carbon concrete (2022)
Journal Article

To improve the prediction of compressive strength and embodied carbon of low carbon concrete using a program algorithm developed in MATLAB, 84 datasets of concrete mix raw materials were used. The influence of water, silica fume and ground granular b... Read More about Optimisation of embodied carbon and compressive strength in low carbon concrete.

Adoption of technological cost data management in the Tanzania building construction industry (2022)
Journal Article

Proper management of cost data ensures the availability of reliable cost data which increases accuracy in providing estimates in the building construction industry. This study explores how cost data is being managed in the Tanzania building construct... Read More about Adoption of technological cost data management in the Tanzania building construction industry.

A comparative study of occupational safety and health (OS&H) regulations in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, and Oman (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This article identifies the gaps in OS&H regulations in Omani construction using a critical review and analysis of relevant literature. Four countries United States of America (USA), United Kingdom (UK), Australia (AUS), and South Africa (SA) were th... Read More about A comparative study of occupational safety and health (OS&H) regulations in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, and Oman.

Argus University Challenge – lessons learned from developing the case study (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The `case-study method' is frequently used in management education to put theory into practice. The same is true in real estate education. In real estate it is also critical that the students gain practical experience with industry tools used to supp... Read More about Argus University Challenge – lessons learned from developing the case study.

Game-based learning in construction to counter the challenges of large group teaching with vast student diversity (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research indicates that despite increasingly multicultural approach of the universities, typical patterns show that students with different cultures minimally interact, and this leads to ‘group separation’. This implies that there is greater degree o... Read More about Game-based learning in construction to counter the challenges of large group teaching with vast student diversity.

An approach for semi-automated data quality assurance within BIM models (2022)
Journal Article

Successful Building Information Modelling (BIM) enabled projects that require large volumes of project data to be embedded within BIM models. However, with this wealth of data, relevance and accuracy have been identified as important issues affecting... Read More about An approach for semi-automated data quality assurance within BIM models.

Planning policy relaxation’s threat to GI (2022)
Journal Article

Conversation #48: The radical right threat to cities and communities (2022)
Digital Artefact

This short article examines the growing influence of right-wing parties on local politics in Europe. It suggests that the rise of the radical right is not, as some commentators have claimed, a new phenomenon. Rather, the article explains that right... Read More about Conversation #48: The radical right threat to cities and communities.

Stuff and space in the home: Space for storage as the forgotten design and well-being dimension in standardised housing (2022)
Journal Article

In the field of architecture, there has been scarce research on how the accumulation of material possessions impacts on space in the home. There has been little understanding of what households own, collect, store, and dispose of, nor the implication... Read More about Stuff and space in the home: Space for storage as the forgotten design and well-being dimension in standardised housing.

Score: Practices of listening and collision (2022)
Journal Article

A score is a research tool that approaches knowledge as a series of relations. A consciously authored, creative work, a score precipitates and establishes the initial terms of an encounter between stories or actors; performed (translated) into a con... Read More about Score: Practices of listening and collision.