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IEA EBC annex 57 ‘evaluation of embodied energy and CO2eq for building construction’ (2017)
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The current regulations to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from buildings have focused on operational energy consumption. Thus legislation excludes measurement and reduction of the embodied energy and embodied GHG emissio... Read More about IEA EBC annex 57 ‘evaluation of embodied energy and CO2eq for building construction’.

Scrutinising embodied carbon in buildings: The next performance gap made manifest (2017)
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) is becoming increasingly mainstream as an early-stage design-decision tool for buildings. Still, there are considerable variations in how the method is currently used, leading to limitations in comparing the results and th... Read More about Scrutinising embodied carbon in buildings: The next performance gap made manifest.

The application and barriers of BIM in sustainable building design (2017)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore and rank the benefits and barriers (technological and non-technological) of using Building Information Modelling (BIM) in sustainable building design. It also employs the use of a design tool analysis... Read More about The application and barriers of BIM in sustainable building design.

Beyond food provision: Understanding community growing in the context of food poverty (2016)
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The use of state-of-the-art transport models by policymakers – beauty in simplicity? (2016)
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Abstract: Transport demand models have a long history of being a major tool in transport policy making. However, whether they are truly used in decision-making processes, and if so, whether the knowledge they provide is actually understood, is questi... Read More about The use of state-of-the-art transport models by policymakers – beauty in simplicity?.

Micromorphology of the lower Pleistocene loess in the Iranian Loess Plateau and its paleoclimatic implications (2016)
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The loess deposits in Iran are a valuable archive of regional paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental information. Extensive sedimentological and chronological studies have been carried out on the middle to upper Pleistocene loess successions during the... Read More about Micromorphology of the lower Pleistocene loess in the Iranian Loess Plateau and its paleoclimatic implications.

Grain-size distribution of Pleistocene loess deposits in northern Iran and its palaeoclimatic implications (2016)
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The loess deposits in northern Iran are located in a key region connected to the European and central Asian loess belts. However, the lack of previous detailed sedimentological and palaeoclimatic studies of the Pleistocene loess in the region limits... Read More about Grain-size distribution of Pleistocene loess deposits in northern Iran and its palaeoclimatic implications.

Early Pleistocene climate in western arid central Asia inferred from loess-palaeosol sequences (2016)
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Arid central Asia (ACA) is one of the most arid regions in the mid-latitudes and one of the main potential dust sources for the northern hemisphere. The lack of in situ early Pleistocene loess/dust records from ACA hinders our comprehensive understan... Read More about Early Pleistocene climate in western arid central Asia inferred from loess-palaeosol sequences.

Pathways to low carbon building: Reflection on the special issue (2015)
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In 2014, this journal invited me to edit a special issue on low carbon building. We put out a call for papers that offered new perspectives, crossing boundaries between technical and social research approaches. The six papers selected and published h... Read More about Pathways to low carbon building: Reflection on the special issue.

Investigating the social value of the Ripon rivers flood alleviation scheme (2015)
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This paper argues for an approach to flood alleviation design that considers the need not only for technical knowledge, but also a social perspective. It is predicted that more intense rainfall and rising sea levels will result in a greater number of... Read More about Investigating the social value of the Ripon rivers flood alleviation scheme.

On-making (2015)
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Article on architectural making

Financing energy efficiency measures in buildings – A new method of appraisal (2015)
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Our current generation strives to provide the next crucial stepping stone towards sustainable buildings, delivering energy efficiency measures without compromise in ways which are financially viable. Selecting and implementing simple energy efficienc... Read More about Financing energy efficiency measures in buildings – A new method of appraisal.

Are wider economic impacts of transport infrastructures always beneficial? Impacts of the Istanbul Metro on the generation of spatio-economic inequalities (2015)
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Assessment of the Wider Economic Impacts (WEIs) of transport infrastructures has become crucial for justifying transport infrastructure investments, especially large-scale projects, not only for transport researchers but also for policy makers. Altho... Read More about Are wider economic impacts of transport infrastructures always beneficial? Impacts of the Istanbul Metro on the generation of spatio-economic inequalities.

Policies and outcomes for UK sustainable schools (2015)
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The 1997-2010 UK government's priorities for education and improved social equality led to the development of two major school building programmes: the Academies programme and Building Schools for the Future (BSF). Political concerns for social, econ... Read More about Policies and outcomes for UK sustainable schools.

Using RS, GIS systems and MPSIAC model to produce erosion map and to estimate sedimentation (2013)
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Study area is a part of Zard Kayedrafee river watershed in Khuzestan province of Iran. Hydrological units from 1:25000 digitized maps computed by using Microstation J and Hec-GeoHMS in Arc GIS software. In addition to hydrological units, nine factors... Read More about Using RS, GIS systems and MPSIAC model to produce erosion map and to estimate sedimentation.

Achieving sustainable mobility - Everyday and leisure-time travel in the EU (2011)
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Evaluating social justice in transport: Lessons to be learned from the capability approach (2010)
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Recent theoretical and empirical studies show that there is a growing interest in considering wider social and economic impacts of transport. Since transport has an important role in distributing socio-economic benefits or losses created by different... Read More about Evaluating social justice in transport: Lessons to be learned from the capability approach.