All Outputs (136)

Feeling the Earthship house: Eliciting a perspective of posterity through immersive virtual reality (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: The surging cost of living and shortage of affordable and sustainable homes fuel the global housing crisis. Earthship buildings are marketed as the epitome of affordable and sustainable alternative housing. This paper aimed to elicit the per... Read More about Feeling the Earthship house: Eliciting a perspective of posterity through immersive virtual reality.

Public preference of flood-resilient housing technologies in Nigeria: A case study of Kogi State (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore flood-prone area residents' preferences of flood-resilient housing technologies (HTs), to understand the factors influencing their choices. Flood-resilient HTs can reduce damage and disruption at a hou... Read More about Public preference of flood-resilient housing technologies in Nigeria: A case study of Kogi State.

No ultrasounds detected from fungi when dehydrated (2023)
Journal Article

Many organisms (including certain plant species) can be observed to emit sounds, potentially signifying threat alerts. Sensitivity to such sounds and vibrations may also play an important role in the lives of fungi. In this work, we explore the poten... Read More about No ultrasounds detected from fungi when dehydrated.

Improving sustainability of affordable housing using innovative technologies: Case study of SIAH-Livable (2023)
Journal Article

Rapid urbanization presents a major challenge in achieving affordable and sustainable housing. In the face of the problem, rapid urbanisation represents, there is room for innovation. Advancements in sustainable design methods, new materials, and inn... Read More about Improving sustainability of affordable housing using innovative technologies: Case study of SIAH-Livable.

Appraising the nexus between influencers on the public transport choice by women commuters in South Africa (2023)
Journal Article

Women represent the largest share of public transport users in developing countries, yet they face many barriers that limit their mobility. In South Africa, safety and security concerns and limited access to reliable transport reduce women's particip... Read More about Appraising the nexus between influencers on the public transport choice by women commuters in South Africa.

Lean iceberg model to minimise barriers for digital twin implementation: Sri Lankan construction industry perspective (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Digital twin technology holds immense potential for the construction industry in developing countries, while providing numerous benefits. Yet, financial, cultural, infrastructural and technological barriers hinder the implementation of digital twin.... Read More about Lean iceberg model to minimise barriers for digital twin implementation: Sri Lankan construction industry perspective.

Sustainable urban mobility governance: Rethinking the links through movement, representation and practice for a just transport system (2023)
Book Chapter

Exploring the joint impacts of income, car ownership, and built environment on daily activity patterns: A cluster analysis of trip chains (2023)
Journal Article

Clustering activity patterns and identifying homogeneous travel behaviour through trip chain sequences offer valuable insight for transportation planners and policymakers in addressing transport equity problems and travel demand management. This stud... Read More about Exploring the joint impacts of income, car ownership, and built environment on daily activity patterns: A cluster analysis of trip chains.

SOL-ART Visions (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) technology enables the replacement of conventional building envelope materials with photovoltaics (PVs) that generate electrical energy from sunlight. PVs can be integrated visibly or invisibly into roofs and f... Read More about SOL-ART Visions.

Gifts, gratuities, and hospitality in business development practices - the perceptions of stakeholders within the alternative real estate lending market (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The prevalent use of gifts, gratuities, and hospitality in the alternative real estate lending markets as part of business development practices has been observed, with the nature, scale, and type of such offerings varying significantly. With no form... Read More about Gifts, gratuities, and hospitality in business development practices - the perceptions of stakeholders within the alternative real estate lending market.

Creating social value by building extreme low carbon homes (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The construction industry is facing numerous demands. For example, a contractor will have to ensure they achieve their cost targets and time and quality contractual obligations whilst also meeting any social value and environmental expectations. Soci... Read More about Creating social value by building extreme low carbon homes.

The efficacy of biodiversity and ecosystem assessment approaches for informing a regenerative approach to built development (2023)
Journal Article

The built environment, even at its “greenest,” inevitably entails changing ecosystem structure and function. Multiple sustainable development tools and approaches are available to reduce environmental harm from built development. However, the reality... Read More about The efficacy of biodiversity and ecosystem assessment approaches for informing a regenerative approach to built development.

Author correction: Kombucha electronics: Electronic circuits on kombucha mats (2023)
Journal Article

Correction to: Scientific Reports, published online 09 June 2023 The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Pasquale D’Angelo which was incorrectly given as Passquale D’Angelo. The original Article has been... Read More about Author correction: Kombucha electronics: Electronic circuits on kombucha mats.

Next (re)generation architectural education: Disrupting design pedagogy through social lab processes (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reflects on collaborative live architectural design projects between Birmingham School of Architecture and Design (BSoAD) students and social lab, CoLab Dudley in Dudley, UK. CoLab Dudley is an experimental form of social and imagination i... Read More about Next (re)generation architectural education: Disrupting design pedagogy through social lab processes.

Developing a youth climate cafe guide (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Urban gardens, commoning, and the seeds of post-capitalism (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Atlas of Car Design (2023)
Book

A fresh take on an eternally popular subject, charting car design's evolution across centuries and continents

The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

The Planning Advisory Service commissioned the University of West of England (UWE) to research the role that Local Planning Authorities (LPA) can play in delivering housing-led development on brownfield land. The research resulted in a set of case st... Read More about The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports.

Handover, soft landings and POE (2023)
Book Chapter

Airborne Microplastics measurement: Putting people at the heart of the science (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution