All Outputs (135)

Constructing for the future: Can the duty of good faith improve payment in the UK construction industry? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Adversarialism within the UK construction industry fosters poor payment practices. Thus, stakeholders down the supply chain consistently suffer cashflow issues which can cause insolvencies. This study consisted of a critical review of literature and... Read More about Constructing for the future: Can the duty of good faith improve payment in the UK construction industry?.

Thermal comfort study in MSMEs in Cairo using onsite measurements and optimization algorithm (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the hot climates in Egypt face many challenges with increased heat stress, reduced labour productivity and adverse occupational health effects often leading to work injuries and heat stroke. This study inv... Read More about Thermal comfort study in MSMEs in Cairo using onsite measurements and optimization algorithm.

Investigation into the key barriers to achieving UK “Construction 2025” strategy targets (2023)
Journal Article

The “Construction 2025” is a United Kingdom (UK) Government Strategy introduced in 2013 to improve the construction industry in the United Kingdom by meeting outlined performance targets by 2025. However, with only a few years left to reach the targe... Read More about Investigation into the key barriers to achieving UK “Construction 2025” strategy targets.

Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment (2023)
Book

This handbook explores the critically important topic of embodied carbon, providing advanced insights that focus on measuring and reducing embodied carbon from across the built environment, including buildings, urban areas and cities, and constructio... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment.

Embodied emissions - knowledge building for industry (2023)
Book Chapter

A climate emergency has been declared and government, policymakers, industries, researchers and architects have tremendous potential to shift the entire industry towards a (net) zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-built environment. In particular, th... Read More about Embodied emissions - knowledge building for industry.

Minimising embodied carbon: A question of politics, not percentages (2023)
Book Chapter

Embodied carbon (EC) has long been a thorny issue, for many years excluded from policy and regulation. Definitions of ‘zero carbon’ have been framed to include only operational impacts, encouraging improvements in energy efficiency but continuing to... Read More about Minimising embodied carbon: A question of politics, not percentages.

Embodied carbon and building retrofit (2023)
Book Chapter

There is a critical need to reduce energy and associated carbon emissions from the existing built environment to help mitigate climate change. This requires significant upscaling of energy retrofitting. However, at present, retrofit assessments commo... Read More about Embodied carbon and building retrofit.

EDITORIAL: CASCADE-NET — Increasing civil society’s capacity to deal with changing extreme weather risk: Negotiating dichotomies in theory and practice (2023)
Journal Article

Local authority capacity and capability literature review (2023)
Report

A literature review of local authority (LA) capacity and capability (C&C) was conducted for the Department for Transport (DfT) by University of the West of England (UWE). The review responded to two main questions: - What are the C&C needs of LAs an... Read More about Local authority capacity and capability literature review.

Bamboo construction inspired by vernacular techniques for reducing carbon footprint: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) (2023)
Journal Article

Whilst upcoming innovations on digital technology and renewable energy can have a significant impact on the reduction of operational carbon emissions in the construction industry, readily available fast-growing building materials like bamboo are alre... Read More about Bamboo construction inspired by vernacular techniques for reducing carbon footprint: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

How sloping facades can help reduce overheating (2023)
Digital Artefact

Foresight through developing shared mental models: The case of Triple Access Planning (2023)
Journal Article

Planning for the future involves making sense of the present and examining possible changes in key factors that can influence the future. Actors rely upon mental models of the system that planning addresses: their simplified interpretations of the ma... Read More about Foresight through developing shared mental models: The case of Triple Access Planning.

Investigating the accident causal influence of construction project features using sequential exploratory mixed methods design (2023)
Book Chapter

Accidents are commonplace on construction sites. Over the years, improvement efforts have included studies aimed at identifying the causal factors in construction accidents in order that appropriate mitigation measures can be implemented. This chapte... Read More about Investigating the accident causal influence of construction project features using sequential exploratory mixed methods design.

Public perceptions of rainwater harvesting (RWH): comparing users and non-users of RWH systems (2023)
Journal Article

The UK’s abundant municipal water supply has resulted in slow progress with the uptake of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems within the home. Research has indicated that exploring public preferences for domestic RWH are necessary for increasing deman... Read More about Public perceptions of rainwater harvesting (RWH): comparing users and non-users of RWH systems.

Factory digital twinning with model driven engineering methodology (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the contemporary landscape of industrial manufacturing, the concept of a digital twin has emerged as a tool bridging the gap between physical systems and their virtual counterparts. The main aim of this project was to delve into the concept, givin... Read More about Factory digital twinning with model driven engineering methodology.

Unsettling in Norrland (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research uses film, photography and projection to analyse the changing space of Northern Sweden (Norrland). This peripheral region is one of the most rapidly reconfiguring spaces in Europe, with on-going programmes of corporate and state investm... Read More about Unsettling in Norrland.

Structural moves in Norrland (2023)
Book Chapter

Based in Umeå, Northern Sweden, this project looks at the phenomena of moving whole houses and other buildings. This practice occurs throughout Sweden, in the USA, New Zealand and other territories. Moving structures this way has occurred for over a... Read More about Structural moves in Norrland.

Structural Moves in Norrland (2023)
Book Chapter

Based in Umeå, Northern Sweden, this project looks at the phenomena of moving whole houses and other buildings. This practice occurs throughout Sweden, in the USA, New Zealand and other territories. Moving structures this way has occurred for over... Read More about Structural Moves in Norrland.

Remaking local food systems. Progress and prospects for UK local food partnerships (2023)
Report

Viability of calcinated wastepaper sludge ash geopolymer in the treatment of road pavement subgrade materials (2023)
Journal Article

Problematic ground conditions constituted by weak or expansive clays are commonly encountered in construction projects and require some form of chemical treatment such as lime and cement to re-engineer their performance. However, in the light of the... Read More about Viability of calcinated wastepaper sludge ash geopolymer in the treatment of road pavement subgrade materials.