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Conversation on a digital folly (2021)
Journal Article
Bañón, A., Nobile, M. L., Devereux, M., Hadjichristou, Y., & Aleixo, S. (2021). Conversation on a digital folly. UOU Scientific Journal, 2, 26-33. https://doi.org/10.14198/UOU.2021.2.03

A Digital Folly (2021). A digital type based on experiential communication and learning above an administrative pool. This Folly is an “atmospheric screen” engaging its audience in its micro-knowledge. A sphere, a uniform solid where every point on i... Read More about Conversation on a digital folly.

Fungal electronics (2021)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A., Ayres, P., Beasley, A. E., Chiolerio, A., Dehshibi, M. M., Gandia, A., …Wösten, H. A. (2022). Fungal electronics. BioSystems, 212, Article 104588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104588

Fungal electronics is a family of living electronic devices made of mycelium bound composites or pure mycelium. Fungal electronic devices are capable of changing their impedance and generating spikes of electrical potential in response to external co... Read More about Fungal electronics.

Nurturing architecture: Education, research and practice for health and wellbeing (2021)
Journal Article
Meraz, F., Marco, E., Rice, L., & Drozynski, C. (2021). Nurturing architecture: Education, research and practice for health and wellbeing. Charrette, 7(2), 1-9

Nurturing Architecture explores how an ethos of care, of providing nourishment and supporting growth and development, might be understood as a founding principle for architectural education and practice. The term allows multiple interpretations, whic... Read More about Nurturing architecture: Education, research and practice for health and wellbeing.

Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services (2021)
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McClymont, K., & Sinnett, D. (2021). Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 3, Article 789925. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.789925

Cemeteries are often included in typologies of green infrastructure features, but there has been little exploration of their role within a multifunctional network of green infrastructure. This paper uses national greenspace data to map the contributi... Read More about Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services.

Levelling up - getting beyond the rhetoric (2021)
Journal Article
Hambleton, R. (2021). Levelling up - getting beyond the rhetoric. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, 90(11/12), 373-378

This article examines the UK government's so-called 'levelling up' policy and outlines two scenarios for the future of this policy. The analysis suggests that levelling up can be characterised as a slogan in search of a policy. Despite announcing t... Read More about Levelling up - getting beyond the rhetoric.

Measurement and validation of polysilicon photovoltaic module degradation rates over five years of field exposure in Oman (2021)
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Shaik, H. M., Kabbani, A., Sheikh, A. M., Goh, K., Gupta, N., & Umar, T. (2021). Measurement and validation of polysilicon photovoltaic module degradation rates over five years of field exposure in Oman. AIMS Energy, 9(6), 1192-1212. https://doi.org/10.3934/energy.2021055

Degradation of PV modules have a severe impact on its power-producing capabilities thus affecting the reliability, performance over the long run. To understand the PV degradation happening under the influence of local environmental conditions a surve... Read More about Measurement and validation of polysilicon photovoltaic module degradation rates over five years of field exposure in Oman.

Beyond energy services: A multidimensional and cross-disciplinary agenda for home energy management research (2021)
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Oliveira, S., Badarnah, L., Barakat, M., Chatzimichali, A., & Atkins, E. (2022). Beyond energy services: A multidimensional and cross-disciplinary agenda for home energy management research. Energy Research and Social Science, 85, 102347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102347

Home Energy Management (HEM) has a significantly growing impact on strategic energy policy, digital equity, as well as housing development and transport issues. With the proliferation of home working, reliance on electricity for heating and cooling a... Read More about Beyond energy services: A multidimensional and cross-disciplinary agenda for home energy management research.

Environmental management systems in the architectural, engineering and construction sectors: A roadmap to aid the delivery of the sustainable development goals (2021)
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Horry, R., Booth, C. A., Mahamadu, A., Manu, P., & Georgakis, P. (2022). Environmental management systems in the architectural, engineering and construction sectors: A roadmap to aid the delivery of the sustainable development goals. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 24(9), 10585-10615. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01874-3

Realisation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) will provide improvements to people's lives and longevity of the planet. The architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) sectors have a potentially huge role in aiding the delivery of many... Read More about Environmental management systems in the architectural, engineering and construction sectors: A roadmap to aid the delivery of the sustainable development goals.

Status of BIM implementation in the Dominican Republic construction industry – an empirical study (2021)
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Silverio, A. K., & Suresh, S. (2023). Status of BIM implementation in the Dominican Republic construction industry – an empirical study. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 21(2), 417-441. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEDT-05-2021-0253

Purpose: The increased use and proven benefits of building information modelling (BIM) worldwide suggest that its implementation could be of great help in diminishing inefficient traditional practices in the Dominican Republic (DR) construction indus... Read More about Status of BIM implementation in the Dominican Republic construction industry – an empirical study.

Enhancing the engineering properties of subgrade materials using processed waste: A review (2021)
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Amakye, S. Y., Abbey, S. J., Booth, C. A., & Mahamadu, A. (2021). Enhancing the engineering properties of subgrade materials using processed waste: A review. Geotechnics, 1(2), 307-329. https://doi.org/10.3390/geotechnics1020015

Subgrade materials refer to the original ground underneath a road pavement, when these materials are made up of expansive soil it is referred to as expansive subgrade. Sometimes, these materials do not have sufficient capacity to support the weight o... Read More about Enhancing the engineering properties of subgrade materials using processed waste: A review.

Assets-based approaches to developing age friendly communities: Learning from the Bristol Ageing Better programme (2021)
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Beardmore, A., Beynon, P., Crabbe, C., Fry, C., Fullforth, J., Groome, J., …White, J. (2022). Assets-based approaches to developing age friendly communities: Learning from the Bristol Ageing Better programme. Working with Older People, 26(1), 53-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/WWOP-07-2021-0038

Purpose: International attention is increasingly turning to the challenge of creating age-friendly environments. This study aims to examine the application of asset-based approaches in undertaking community development projects with older people. The... Read More about Assets-based approaches to developing age friendly communities: Learning from the Bristol Ageing Better programme.

Municipal solid waste generation, composition, and resident awareness of recycling in Oman (2021)
Journal Article
Umar, T. (2022). Municipal solid waste generation, composition, and resident awareness of recycling in Oman. International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development, 13(1), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJSESD.290317

Currently, the entire daily MSW generated in Oman, which is roughly equal to more than 5,000 tons, is disposed at more than 300 dumpsites, which create a number of sustainability issues. This article attempts to know the composition of MSW in Oman. T... Read More about Municipal solid waste generation, composition, and resident awareness of recycling in Oman.

Group-level safety climate in the construction industry: Influence of organizational, group, and individual factors (2021)
Journal Article
Cheung, C., Zhang, R. P., Wang, R., Hsu, S., & Manu, P. (2022). Group-level safety climate in the construction industry: Influence of organizational, group, and individual factors. Journal of Management in Engineering, 38(1), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29ME.1943-5479.0000978

Group-level safety climate (GSC) is a recognized leading indicator of safety performance in the literature. However, there is limited understanding of the mechanisms through which multilevel (i.e., organizational, group, and individual) factors colle... Read More about Group-level safety climate in the construction industry: Influence of organizational, group, and individual factors.

The costs of accidents in Qatar, Oman, and Saudi Arabia construction industry (2021)
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Umar, T. (2021). The costs of accidents in Qatar, Oman, and Saudi Arabia construction industry. International Journal of Sustainable Real Estate and Construction Economics, 2(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSRECE.2021.118079

Considering the construction projects and the current status of occupational safety in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, this article attempts to estimate the costs of accidents in construction. The parameters used in these estimates include... Read More about The costs of accidents in Qatar, Oman, and Saudi Arabia construction industry.

Effects of landscape patterns on the summer microclimate and human comfort in urban squares in China (2021)
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Liu, S., Zhao, J., Xu, M., & Ahmadian, E. (2021). Effects of landscape patterns on the summer microclimate and human comfort in urban squares in China. Sustainable Cities and Society, 73, 103099. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103099

This research uses empirical data and supplementary computer simulation result to study the summertime cooling effect of different landscape patterns in urban areas in China. It employs field monitoring to collect hourly air temperatures and relative... Read More about Effects of landscape patterns on the summer microclimate and human comfort in urban squares in China.

Climate-adapted, traditional or cottage-garden planting? Public perceptions, values and socio-cultural drivers in a designed garden setting (2021)
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Hoyle, H. E. (2021). Climate-adapted, traditional or cottage-garden planting? Public perceptions, values and socio-cultural drivers in a designed garden setting. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 65, Article 127362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127362

The global climate crisis precipitates a call to ‘futureproof’ cities by introducing resilient climate-adapted urban green infrastructure (UGI). Recent UK research has revealed public support for climate-adapted UGI, yet there is a lack of research f... Read More about Climate-adapted, traditional or cottage-garden planting? Public perceptions, values and socio-cultural drivers in a designed garden setting.

The mediating influence of local cultures on the relationship between factors of safety risk perception and Risk-Taking behavioural intention of construction site workers (2021)
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Danso, F., Adinyira, E., Manu, P., Agyekum, K., Kwaku Ahadzie, D., & Badu, E. (2022). The mediating influence of local cultures on the relationship between factors of safety risk perception and Risk-Taking behavioural intention of construction site workers. Safety Science, 145, Article 105490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105490

Safety risk perception and local cultures are two determinants that influence site workers' risk-taking behavioural intention during construction. The former and its influences are empirically valid, while the latter remains descriptive. How these tw... Read More about The mediating influence of local cultures on the relationship between factors of safety risk perception and Risk-Taking behavioural intention of construction site workers.

Pedagogical nurture through other means: A style of educating for architects by Gilles Deleuze (2021)
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Drozynski, C. (2021). Pedagogical nurture through other means: A style of educating for architects by Gilles Deleuze. Charrette, 7(2), 37-56

The current landscape of architectural pedagogy is exposed to issues of standardisation that echo the ones that higher education faced in the second half of the twentieth century. The systems of pedagogic nurture in academia that were proposed during... Read More about Pedagogical nurture through other means: A style of educating for architects by Gilles Deleuze.

The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
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Hickman, H., Croft, N., McClymont, K., Sheppard, A., & Foroughmand-Araabi, H. (2021). The whittling away of wonderful ideas. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, July / August 2021, 242-248

Key factors influencing the implementation of three-dimensional printing in construction (2021)
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Umar, T. (2021). Key factors influencing the implementation of three-dimensional printing in construction. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 174(3), 104-117. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmapl.19.00029

Due to its wider applications and advantages, three-dimensional (3D) printing has attracted the attention of various industries in the past years. Although the implementation of 3D printing in many industries still has challenges, progress in the con... Read More about Key factors influencing the implementation of three-dimensional printing in construction.