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Building height and density effects related to winter and summer temperature and precipitation simulation based on Local Climate Zones in a coastal city: A case study of Istanbul (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The temperature and precipitation extremes of coastal cities are modulated by land-atmospheric interactions and modified land surfaces. Local climate zones are used as land use representations in a convection-permitting model to simulate precipitatio... Read More about Building height and density effects related to winter and summer temperature and precipitation simulation based on Local Climate Zones in a coastal city: A case study of Istanbul.

The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

The first Public screening of The Death and Life of UK Universities and the Cultural Spaces They Consume A video work by Tonia Carless and Igea Troiani which uses film collected over a 10 year period to document the changing space of UK Universities... Read More about The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume.

Qualitative research seminar: Planning co-productive research with young people (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Join us for an engaging research seminar as we delve into the insights garnered from the CCC-CATAPULT research project, aimed at exploring young people's experiences of climate education. Throughout the session, we will present some principles that w... Read More about Qualitative research seminar: Planning co-productive research with young people.

The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Images from film and text of The Death and Life of UK Universities - a joint publication with Professor Igea Troiani London South Bank University. Included in the exhibition catalogue published by msdm publications.

Video installation included in... Read More about The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume.

Comfort, fashion, home and sustainability: How (/not) to live your life in a jumper (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation makes link between architecture and fashion, examining the socially constructed idea of comfort, modernity presented in both the built environment and garment industry.
Comfort is a socially constructed, ‘fashionable’ concept. It i... Read More about Comfort, fashion, home and sustainability: How (/not) to live your life in a jumper.

Design as emergent making design as emergent making (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Through design practice, this research seeks mutually beneficial possibilities and connections that can be made between making and architecture. It asks how space can be discovered and accrued through full scale making, rather than pre-imagined via s... Read More about Design as emergent making design as emergent making.

Development and testing of immersive virtual reality environment for safe unmanned aerial vehicle usage in construction scenarios (2024)
Journal Article

Robotics and autonomous systems are increasingly being used on construction sites to complete tasks and complement human effort. One such autonomous system is unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), although their wrong use could be potentially hazardous to... Read More about Development and testing of immersive virtual reality environment for safe unmanned aerial vehicle usage in construction scenarios.

Nature and cycling: A literature review (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Both cycling and nature offer a range of benefits to human and planetary wellbeing. Little extant literature has directly asked how nature is experienced as part of cycling practices or how far this may influence cycling. Nonetheless, several studies... Read More about Nature and cycling: A literature review.

When the turbines stop: Unveiling the factors shaping end-of-life decisions of ageing wind infrastructure in Italy (2024)
Journal Article

Wind farms reaching their end of technical, or consent life, are increasing. One of the biggest emerging environmental sustainability issues faced by countries globally is what to do with this ageing infrastructure. This is an urgent issue across Eur... Read More about When the turbines stop: Unveiling the factors shaping end-of-life decisions of ageing wind infrastructure in Italy.

The potential of construction robotics to reduce airborne virus transmission in the construction industry in the UK and China (2024)
Journal Article

This paper aims to identify construction robotics' potential to reduce airborne virus transmission, review factors limiting the technology's adoption and highlight how similar barriers have been addressed in other industries. Construction robotics we... Read More about The potential of construction robotics to reduce airborne virus transmission in the construction industry in the UK and China.

Urban placemaking and human wellbeing in post-pandemic planning: Implications from case study of Wapping Wharf, Bristol (2024)
Journal Article

The way in which the living environment is designed has profound influences on inhabitants’ well-being; unfortunately, the search for leverage points for the socio-spatial assemblages of human wellbeing and the (re)configuration of their living envir... Read More about Urban placemaking and human wellbeing in post-pandemic planning: Implications from case study of Wapping Wharf, Bristol.

Studio in the Woods 2018 (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

In the Summer of 2018, a group of of over 50 architects, designers and carpenters camped out in England's Wyre forest as part of Studio in the Woods. Over four days in the woods they ate together, participated in lectures and crits and conceived, des... Read More about Studio in the Woods 2018.

High street evidence - UWE - Written evidence (HSC0046) (2024)
Report

Exploring continental convection-permitting model simulations for South America: Cross-correlation dynamics between precipitation and temperature time series at Sao Paulo (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Increasing spatial resolution to kilometre scales allows the deactivation of deep convection parameterisation schemes. As a result of various global initiatives for the next generation of climate studies, continental convection-permitting model (CPM)... Read More about Exploring continental convection-permitting model simulations for South America: Cross-correlation dynamics between precipitation and temperature time series at Sao Paulo.

Spatial heterogeneity in the response of winter wheat yield to meteorological dryness/wetness variations in Henan province, China (2024)
Journal Article

Knowledge of the responses of winter wheat yield to meteorological dryness/wetness variations is crucial for reducing yield losses in Henan province, China’s largest winter wheat production region, under the background of climate change. Data on clim... Read More about Spatial heterogeneity in the response of winter wheat yield to meteorological dryness/wetness variations in Henan province, China.

The influence of sleep on perception of thermal comfort (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A detailed analysis of 293 individual participant responses taken over a 5-week study found that there was a statistical significance between the hours of sleep of a participant and the thermal sensation they reported, specifically participants repor... Read More about The influence of sleep on perception of thermal comfort.

Reflections on co-productive research in a youth-focused climate education project (2024)
Journal Article

The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasises the value of listening to young people’s voices. Since its inception, there have been significant moves to involve young people in research that concerns their lives in a time of environmen... Read More about Reflections on co-productive research in a youth-focused climate education project.

Enforcing payment obligations under construction contracts by insolvency proceedings (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose
States have intervened with legislation to improve cashflow within construction project supply chains. The operation of the UK’s Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 leads to payment obligations stated either as a contract... Read More about Enforcing payment obligations under construction contracts by insolvency proceedings.

Decision-making on walkability improvements in the context of broader power dynamics: Review of evidence and analysis of case studies in New Zealand and the UK; Summary report (2024)
Report

This report is one of the outputs of the project “Accessible walking for all, from words to action: engaging diverse voices to better understand decision-making determinants”, realised with the support of the Vice-Chancelor’s Early Career Research Gr... Read More about Decision-making on walkability improvements in the context of broader power dynamics: Review of evidence and analysis of case studies in New Zealand and the UK; Summary report.

Can Lis (2024)
Digital Artefact

Film about Jorn Utzon's Can Lis