All Outputs (24)

Virtual reality approach to enhancing hazard perception in construction using eye-tracking and deep learning (2025)
Book Chapter

Over 50% of onsite hazards remain unrecognized, primarily due to poor hazard perception and attention deficits. Eye-tracking can help in understanding human visual attention and cognitive response, but its application in construction has been restric... Read More about Virtual reality approach to enhancing hazard perception in construction using eye-tracking and deep learning.

Immersive emergency preparedness: Enhancing tunnel operations with virtual reality door closure training (2025)
Book Chapter

Infrastructure projects, particularly tunnel construction, demand meticulous safety measures due to the complexities involved and the significant risks posed by heavy machinery operations. Despite relying on traditional safety drills and standardized... Read More about Immersive emergency preparedness: Enhancing tunnel operations with virtual reality door closure training.

Virtual Reality (VR) application for exploring earthship houses for second-time house buyers in the UK (2025)
Book Chapter

The use of digitalization to advance sustainability is a path the construction industry is eager to take. earthships as the summit of sustainable housing solutions are facing the challenge of low awareness. To overcome this challenge, this study expl... Read More about Virtual Reality (VR) application for exploring earthship houses for second-time house buyers in the UK.

General public’s perception of earthship buildings in the UK: An immersive VR based approach (2025)
Book Chapter

Earthship homes are exceptionally sustainable forms of housing, designed as passive solar homes with an emphasis on waste minimisation, water conservation, and energy efficiency. This chapter aims to elicit the perceptions of Earthship homes among in... Read More about General public’s perception of earthship buildings in the UK: An immersive VR based approach.

Towards a metaverse platform for immersive collaborative design: A critical review of a Furniture, Fixture and Equipment (FFE) application (2025)
Book Chapter

The current technological revolution is rapid and a disruptive catalyst to existing ways of doing business in every aspect of human endeavour. One of the most recent technologies gaining attention is the metaverse, which offers computer-generated s... Read More about Towards a metaverse platform for immersive collaborative design: A critical review of a Furniture, Fixture and Equipment (FFE) application.

Navigating urban futures: Crafting an experimental framework for eye-tracking integrated virtual reality in co-creative planning (2025)
Book Chapter

Wheelchair users (WCUs) often face unnecessary risks and socio-economic exclusion due to inadequate urban infrastructure. In this context, adopting participatory design (PD) in urban infrastructure planning proffers socially inclusive urban developme... Read More about Navigating urban futures: Crafting an experimental framework for eye-tracking integrated virtual reality in co-creative planning.

Applications of immersive technology in architecture, engineering, and construction - An introduction (2025)
Book Chapter

Globally, the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sectors make an enormous contribution to the socio-economic development of nations, which is primarily evidenced by its creation/provision of the built environment. The sector has, howev... Read More about Applications of immersive technology in architecture, engineering, and construction - An introduction.

Towards complete property–level flood protection of domestic buildings in the UK (2018)
Book Chapter

Property flood resilience (PFR) is an important aspect within an integrated approach to flood risk reduction. In the UK this has resulted in a plethora of products and recommended measures to minimise the ingress of water to the millions of propertie... Read More about Towards complete property–level flood protection of domestic buildings in the UK.

Insights and issues in the uptake and development of advanced anaerobic digestion within the UK water industry (2017)
Book Chapter

This study explores the uptake and growth of Advanced Anaerobic Digestion (AAD) within the UK water industry to reveal the drivers and challenges the water companies are facing towards aiding the UK Government to reach its renewable energy targets. A... Read More about Insights and issues in the uptake and development of advanced anaerobic digestion within the UK water industry.

Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter explored relevant literature and touched on a variety of tools that can contribute to the estimation of the costs of implementing and maintaining SuDS, and the evaluation of flood damage reduction, stormwater management and other benefit... Read More about Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage.

Dual-Purpose Rainwater Harvesting System Design (2016)
Book Chapter

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter reviews rainwater harvesting (RwH) and sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), as well as existing approaches to integrate RwH and SuDS in England and Wales. A new design method is propo... Read More about Dual-Purpose Rainwater Harvesting System Design.

Green roof and permeable paving retrofit to mitigate pluvial flooding (2016)
Book Chapter

Green roof retrofit is seen to be to be an important part of climate adaptation strategies for CBDs generally and in Melbourne in particular. Retrofit of perrmeable paving is also an important SUDs approach within crowded CBDs. The potential for miti... Read More about Green roof and permeable paving retrofit to mitigate pluvial flooding.

Progress with integration of ecosystem services in sustainable drainage system (2016)
Book Chapter

Society is moving from management addressing single or few outcomes towards recognition that all interventions have systemic impacts. Water management in urban environments presents particular challenges related to growing populations in finite land... Read More about Progress with integration of ecosystem services in sustainable drainage system.

Public perceptions of sustainable drainage devices (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers the centrality of human perceptions, and so behaviour, to the sustainability of SuDS. Research shows a lack of engagement with flood preparedness and flood risk mitigation (FRM) in the public as a whole, and many people are ave... Read More about Public perceptions of sustainable drainage devices.

The Costs of Flooding on Households (2014)
Book Chapter

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. Costs associated with flooding can be categorised as tangible and intangible. The categorisation of the costs of flooding depends on factors, such as the ease of monetising the impact, when the im... Read More about The Costs of Flooding on Households.

Balancing Flood Risk and Water Scarcity of the Asian Delta Regions (2014)
Book Chapter

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. While it is noted that the effect of a changing climate will exacerbate the extreme weather conditions affecting the prevalence of floods and water scarcity, many countries are already facing a cy... Read More about Balancing Flood Risk and Water Scarcity of the Asian Delta Regions.

The Role of Market-Based Flood Insurance in Maintaining Communities at Risk of Flooding: A SWOT Analysis (2014)
Book Chapter

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. Flood insurance can be seen as an alternative to massively increased investment in harder flood risk management measures, as it has the potential to mitigate the effects of flooding and maintain c... Read More about The Role of Market-Based Flood Insurance in Maintaining Communities at Risk of Flooding: A SWOT Analysis.

Property level flood protection: Technical insights of a new safety flood door
Book Chapter

Governments acknowledge that many buildings cannot be protected from flooding by large-scale flood defence schemes and, therefore, property level flood protection is considered part of an integrated flood risk strategy, requiring homeowners to should... Read More about Property level flood protection: Technical insights of a new safety flood door.

Contemporary landscapes and buildings of motorway service areas
Book Chapter

Motorway Service Areas (MSAs) or Highway Rest Areas provide an essential 24–hour, 365–day service for road traffic users, presenting them with somewhere to rest, relax and recharge. The range of provisions MSAs offer, such as truck and car parking, t... Read More about Contemporary landscapes and buildings of motorway service areas.

Waterproofing basement apartments: Technical insights of a new flood protection solution
Book Chapter

Installing perimeter floor drains is a waterproofing option used inside buildings, which manages water ingress in basements. Newly designed products providing a means to access the inverts of perimeter floor drains and facilitate inspection and maint... Read More about Waterproofing basement apartments: Technical insights of a new flood protection solution.