All Outputs (459)

Commoning through the lifecourse: The mundane politics of retirement and life beyond the wage (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The general shift from the static commons to the more dynamic one of commoning offers opportunities, both analytically and practically. In particular, it offers us the opportunity for exploring the more hidden and quiet politics that not only sustain... Read More about Commoning through the lifecourse: The mundane politics of retirement and life beyond the wage.

Healthy Communities: Place-based built environment interventions to reduce health inequalities by increasing physical activity (2022)
Report

Is Passivhaus the future of the UK social housing scheme? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In order to meet the SDGs, new buildings, as well as retrofitted buildings, are developed to an increasingly higher environmental performance standard in both private and social sectors. This has been reflected in a higher standard for thermal perfor... Read More about Is Passivhaus the future of the UK social housing scheme?.

Dielectric polymer composites with ultra-high thermal conductivity and low dielectric loss (2022)
Journal Article

Polymer based dielectric materials with simultaneously high thermal conductivity and low dielectric loss are highly desirable in various applications like energy storage, thermal management and electronic packaging. Polymer dielectrics generally bene... Read More about Dielectric polymer composites with ultra-high thermal conductivity and low dielectric loss.

Studio Archaeology Artist Book (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

"STUDIO/ ARCHAEOLOGY," one accordion and six pamphlets, documents the interior of msdm project space through a cross-section of representational approaches including photogrammetry, narrative/ documentary context and book art. The 3-d models of msdm... Read More about Studio Archaeology Artist Book.

Equity in temporary street closures: The case of London's Covid-19 ‘School Streets’ schemes (2022)
Journal Article

School Streets are a street space reallocation scheme that has proliferated since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, reducing motor traffic on streets outside many schools. Utilising a minimum-standards approach to equity, this paper e... Read More about Equity in temporary street closures: The case of London's Covid-19 ‘School Streets’ schemes.

Westonbirt community shelter (2022)
Physical Artefact

A timber shelter designed as a research project with Xylotek to explore using Oak grown on site and making as empowerment with harder to reach and marginalised community groups

Modelling Chinese urban residential stock turnover uncertainties using system dynamics and Bayesian statistical inference (2022)
Book Chapter

Building stock turnover is one of the key determinants in building energy modelling and policy analysis. Building lifetime is integral to the dynamics of stock turnover. However in China, despite anecdotal claims that urban residential buildings are... Read More about Modelling Chinese urban residential stock turnover uncertainties using system dynamics and Bayesian statistical inference.

What does it take to make a building? (2022)
Digital Artefact

Film about Sarah Wigglesworth's practice

Net zero ready new build housing: Benefits and barriers to delivery (2022)
Report

To meet the UK’s legally-binding climate change targets, the Climate Change Committee (2019) and the Sixth Carbon Budget (2020) propose that all new residential buildings should be zero carbon-ready from 2025. Building the zero carbon ready homes req... Read More about Net zero ready new build housing: Benefits and barriers to delivery.

Insights into the use of modular housing in addressing homelessness (2022)
Report

Light-driven actuation in synthetic polymers: A review from fundamental concepts to applications (2022)
Journal Article

Light-driven actuation of synthetic polymers is an emerging field of interest because it offers simple remote addressing without complicated hydraulic, electric, or magnetic systems. Reviews on this area predominantly emphasize on the development of... Read More about Light-driven actuation in synthetic polymers: A review from fundamental concepts to applications.

Digital poverty and housing inequality (2022)
Report

The link between digital poverty and broader socio-economic inequalities is clear, and it is widely acknowledged within academic and grey literature that people experiencing poverty are more likely to be digitally excluded than people with higher inc... Read More about Digital poverty and housing inequality.

Design for safety (DfS) practice in construction engineering and management research: A review of current trends and future directions (2022)
Journal Article

For past decades, design for safety (DfS) has gained growing interest among scholars and practitioners in different geographical contexts as one of the innovative practices integrating worker health and safety in the front-end of the project lifecycl... Read More about Design for safety (DfS) practice in construction engineering and management research: A review of current trends and future directions.

The future of work beyond the pandemic (2021)
Journal Article

On 21 October 2021 the PTRC Fireside Chat Series returned after a summer break. Continuing with its overall focus upon the transport implications of the pandemic, attention turned to consider whether or not we should be expecting a ‘big return’ to th... Read More about The future of work beyond the pandemic.

Retrofitting existing buildings (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Indicators of healthy architecture: Lessons for practice from a systematic literature review (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This themed paper develops the findings of Indicators of Healthy Architecture—a Systematic Literature Review (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00469-z) including consideration of implications for built environment practitioners and how this informs... Read More about Indicators of healthy architecture: Lessons for practice from a systematic literature review.

East Quay: Designing for change (2021)
Physical Artefact

East Quay is a £7m cultural development, much-lauded in the architectural press, and the recipient of multiple awards including SW RIBA Building of the Year. Designed by Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio, East Quay was commissioned and is now run by O... Read More about East Quay: Designing for change.

Challenges associated with monitoring urban trees and the benefits of collecting baseline data at planting (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine

This article explains how monitoring urban trees is essential to learning how urban forests and tree planting initiatives change over time and how to optimise their benefits we must initiate data collection at planting.

Developing a framework for describing, planning and evaluating empowerment in architectural making projects (2021)
Thesis

The aim of this practice based thesis is to develop a framework to describe and evaluate the empowerment that takes place in the course of participatory ‘making’ in an architectural context. ‘Making’ research in architectural contexts is widespread,... Read More about Developing a framework for describing, planning and evaluating empowerment in architectural making projects.