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Psycho-behavioural determinants of vulnerable road user safety: A review (2025)
Journal Article

Safe, accessible and sustainable transportation systems should be an accepted expectation for everyone. Unfortunately, vulnerable road users (VRUs), which include cyclists, e-scooters, motorcyclists, pedestrians and people with disabilities, are ofte... Read More about Psycho-behavioural determinants of vulnerable road user safety: A review.

BIM maturity and its influence on BIM implementation challenges: The perspectives of UK contractors (2025)
Journal Article

Building information modelling (BIM) offers a powerful means to enhance collaboration and efficiency in construction project delivery. However, many organisations still face persistent technical, organisational, and environmental challenges during im... Read More about BIM maturity and its influence on BIM implementation challenges: The perspectives of UK contractors.

Bridging innovation and practice: Assessing the readiness for 3D printing in construction (2025)
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The literature review discusses both the benefits—such as lower labour costs, faster construction times, and less material waste—and the drawbacks—such as high initial costs, reliance on tra... Read More about Bridging innovation and practice: Assessing the readiness for 3D printing in construction.

Lanes, clusters, sightlines: Modelling patient flow in medical clinics (2025)
Journal Article

Lengthy waiting times for ophthalmology appointments in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) increased with the COVID-19 pandemic, necessitating a different approach to triaging patients safely and swiftly. Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust therefo... Read More about Lanes, clusters, sightlines: Modelling patient flow in medical clinics.

Towards effective knowledge co-production and deliberation: developing public engagement competencies among scientists and policymakers (2025)
Journal Article

Governments committed to the Paris Agreement are obligated to empower the public to participate in decision-making on climate change. Research shows that higher levels of public engagement (PE) lead to fairer, more inclusive, and socially acceptable... Read More about Towards effective knowledge co-production and deliberation: developing public engagement competencies among scientists and policymakers.

Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age (2025)
Journal Article

With biodiversity loss escalating globally, a step change is needed in our capacity to accurately monitor species populations across ecosystems. Robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) offer technological solutions that may substantially advance terrest... Read More about Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age.

A systematic review of occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction (2025)
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The construction industry is facing increased pressure to enhance efficiency and safety, owing to its high incident rates. Modular integrated construction (MiC) has gained significant attention from scholars and practitioners as a viable means of enh... Read More about A systematic review of occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction.

Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China (2025)
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Purpose: Design for Safety (DfS) has been studied as an effective method to reduce injuries and fatalities in construction. Although the benefits of implementing DfS are gradually being recognised, there is limited research on DfS in developing count... Read More about Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China.

A decision-making framework for early-stage design of positive energy blocks (2025)
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Positive Energy Block (PEBlock) is an emerging energy paradigm described as a mesoscale model distinct from building and district scale models. The paper's novel methodology introduces a first-of-its-kind three-level early-stage design framework for... Read More about A decision-making framework for early-stage design of positive energy blocks.

A new politics of welfare? The origins and strategies of India’s gig and platform workers’ unions in the era of digital capitalism (2025)
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During and after the months of pandemic control measures, newly formed unions of platform and gig workers in India started leveraging electoral contests, campaigns and politics to advocate for and with laws that would regulate platform work and provi... Read More about A new politics of welfare? The origins and strategies of India’s gig and platform workers’ unions in the era of digital capitalism.

Negotiated, approved … ignored? Regulating development after approval in England and Germany (2025)
Journal Article

Delivery and enforcement have received comparatively less attention in planning practice and research than plan making and the granting of development rights. Once planning permission has been granted or a binding land use plan has been approved, th... Read More about Negotiated, approved … ignored? Regulating development after approval in England and Germany.

Estimating household water storage from images: A machine learning approach (2025)
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Whilst much research focusses on challenges related to achieving SDG 6.1 (universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water), there has been less attention to challenges of safe transport, storage and use of collected water. In par... Read More about Estimating household water storage from images: A machine learning approach.

Interrogating technological leapfrogging in Asian development and growth models: Toward a critical postcolonial political economy approach (2025)
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This article examines the discourse of technological leapfrogging within dominant Asian development models—namely, the earlier manufacturing-led development (MLD) and the more recent services-led development (SLD)—which posit that developing nations... Read More about Interrogating technological leapfrogging in Asian development and growth models: Toward a critical postcolonial political economy approach.

The adoption of UAVs for enhancing safety in construction industry: A systematic literature review (2025)
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The nexus between sustainability and safety in construction is crucial for improving a resilient and responsible built environment. By adhering to sustainable principles, construction practices can not only mitigate the environmental impact but also... Read More about The adoption of UAVs for enhancing safety in construction industry: A systematic literature review.

Homes under the microscope: Results from a pilot community science approach to measure airborne microfibres in the home (2025)
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Non-natural airborne microfibres are an emerging concern in indoor air pollution, yet relatively little is known about their sources or concentrations. This is particularly relevant in home environments, where individuals spend significant amounts of... Read More about Homes under the microscope: Results from a pilot community science approach to measure airborne microfibres in the home.

Implementing environmental management systems (ISO14001) in the construction sector of Ghana (2025)
Journal Article

Environmental Management Systems (EMS) enable organisations to manage their environmental impacts. Globalisation has resulted in more organisations needing to engage in environmental sustainability. In developed nations ISO 14001 provides the key gui... Read More about Implementing environmental management systems (ISO14001) in the construction sector of Ghana.

A Critical Success Factor (CSF) framework for implementing net-positive housing in the Water, Energy, Food, Environment (WEFE) Nexus: Insights from Jordan and South Africa (2025)
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Addressing the specific challenges faced by low-income communities, such as poor housing conditions, is crucial while simultaneously working toward global sustainability goals, including net-zero emissions and climate change mitigation. This study ex... Read More about A Critical Success Factor (CSF) framework for implementing net-positive housing in the Water, Energy, Food, Environment (WEFE) Nexus: Insights from Jordan and South Africa.

Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives (2025)
Journal Article

Managing complex disaster risks requires interdisciplinary efforts. Breaking down silos between law, social sciences, and natural sciences is critical for all processes of disaster risk reduction. It is essential to explore how AI enhances understand... Read More about Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Pedestrian experiences of rental e-scooter use and parking (2025)
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The study explores pedestrian experiences of shared e-scooters in relation to safety and comfort, and issues of discrimination, considering disability as an important dimension. It differentiates between the views of those who have ridden e-scooters... Read More about Pedestrian experiences of rental e-scooter use and parking.

Physical structural assessment of a segmented concrete shell building floor prototype (2025)
Journal Article

To reduce the significant environmental impact of the construction industry, building floors designed as concrete shells that work mainly in compression and that are segmented for prefabrication and disassembly offer a promising alternative to reinfo... Read More about Physical structural assessment of a segmented concrete shell building floor prototype.