All Outputs (52)

SoundMapp: Participatory design in museum space (2018)
Journal Article

This article explores the possibility of creating alternative user experience in exhibition spaces while using audience interactivity as medium for generating sonic material. We are investigating participatory art in museum space, ways for redefining... Read More about SoundMapp: Participatory design in museum space.

Alcohol abuse and illicit drug use at construction sites: Perception of workers at construction sites (2018)
Journal Article

This study aims at establishing the perception of workers at the construction sites regarding illicit drug use and alcohol abuse. Specifically the study attempts to investigate the key causes of substance abuse, awareness among workers on the effects... Read More about Alcohol abuse and illicit drug use at construction sites: Perception of workers at construction sites.

Design for safety in construction in Sub-Saharan Africa: A study of architects in Ghana (2018)
Journal Article

Design for safety (DfS) is an important mechanism for addressing accidents in construction. In the main, DfS studies have largely focussed on various regions of the world other than sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Through a questionnaire survey, this study... Read More about Design for safety in construction in Sub-Saharan Africa: A study of architects in Ghana.

Exploring behavioural factors for information sharing in BIM projects in the Malaysian construction industry (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Despite the wave of enthusiasm for building information modelling (BIM) as a platform for information sharing, issues from the context of information-sharing behaviours still exist. The purpose of this pap... Read More about Exploring behavioural factors for information sharing in BIM projects in the Malaysian construction industry.

Towards a Deleuzoguattarian methodology for urban design (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (Deleuzoguattarian) is now widely thought to be apropos for today’s world. This paper proposes Deleuzoguattarian philosophy as... Read More about Towards a Deleuzoguattarian methodology for urban design.

Picture perfect: Maps and other measures of the contemporary city (2018)
Journal Article

Jorge Luis Borges’ short story ‘On Exactitude in Science’ (1946) has been referred to innumerous times: it features a map that is repeatedly revisited and scaled up, until it becomes contiguous with its referent object (the territory) and effaces it.... Read More about Picture perfect: Maps and other measures of the contemporary city.

Exploring employee energy efficiency awareness in UK commercial offices: IT and small power (2018)
Journal Article

Energy consumption reduction is called upon across UK business facilities in order to mitigate the rising impacts of climate change. Business facilities such as office buildings rely on a range of electrical equipment on a day-to-day basis (Carbon Tr... Read More about Exploring employee energy efficiency awareness in UK commercial offices: IT and small power.

Perceptions on safety climate: A case study in the Omani construction industry (2018)
Journal Article

Generally, a mature safety climate and a rich safety culture contribute to achieving a safe workplace. The purpose of this paper is to examine the understanding of using safety climate and to make explicit some of the main elements that have a greate... Read More about Perceptions on safety climate: A case study in the Omani construction industry.

Case study of PV output power degradation rates in Oman (2018)
Journal Article

To meet the increase in peak electricity demand, reduce fossil fuel emissions in Oman, and as an initiative taken by the government, by 2030 15% (3000 MW) of the total energy mix (20,000 MW) should be generated from renewable energy resources. It is... Read More about Case study of PV output power degradation rates in Oman.

Towards new architectural and urban typologies: Thinking, making and living as a post occupancy evaluation method (2018)
Journal Article

Conscious Cities Anthology 2018: Human-Centred Design, Science, and Technology showcases individuals and groups that are contributing towards this new approach to creating a better built environment.

Blue space as caring space – water and the cultivation of care in social and environmental practice (2018)
Journal Article

This paper studies three sites or ‘landscapes of care’ in Leeds, Bristol and London where water and associated built and natural environments are used to co-construct and facilitate forms of social and environmental care. Our research narrates the w... Read More about Blue space as caring space – water and the cultivation of care in social and environmental practice.

Inclusive place-based leadership: Lesson-drawing from urban governance innovations in Bristol, UK (2018)
Journal Article

Across the world progressive city leaders are working to limit the damaging impact of decisions made by place-less leaders, meaning powerful interests that are unconcerned about the consequences of their decisions for particular places and communitie... Read More about Inclusive place-based leadership: Lesson-drawing from urban governance innovations in Bristol, UK.

Knowledge integration for low carbon transition: The case of energy retrofit (2018)
Journal Article

The Energy Retrofit concept plays an important role in the transition to low carbon cities, because buildings make a transdisciplinary perspective. Thus, an integrated approach to research, learning and teaching in the built environment di... Read More about Knowledge integration for low carbon transition: The case of energy retrofit.

The Image of the Hyper City (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, The Author(s). Since the nineteenth and twentieth century, information has been pivotal both in the cultural tradition and then in the economic tradition. While the Fordism economic model and its specialisation requirements originated a simpl... Read More about The Image of the Hyper City.

Flood risk to commercial property: Training and education needs of built environment professionals (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Improved management of commercial property at risk from flooding may result from well-targeted advice from built environment (BE) professionals, such as surveyors, valuers and project managers. However, re... Read More about Flood risk to commercial property: Training and education needs of built environment professionals.

Briefing: Towards a sustainable energy: The potential of biomass for electricity generation in Oman (2018)
Journal Article

Oman, like other Arabian Gulf countries, depends on oil and gas to produce electricity. However, these resources are not guaranteed to last forever and constitute one of the energy security issues in the country. This paper explores the potential of... Read More about Briefing: Towards a sustainable energy: The potential of biomass for electricity generation in Oman.

Updating the determinants of health model in the information age (2018)
Journal Article

In 1991, Dahlgren and Whitehead produced a highly influential model of the determinants of health that has since been used by numerous national and international public health organizations globally. The purpose of the model is to enable intervention... Read More about Updating the determinants of health model in the information age.

Assessment of procurement capacity challenges inhibiting public infrastructure procurement: A Nigerian inquiry (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Public procurement capacity is composed of three facets: individual, organisational and an enabling national environment which encapsulates national legislation, policies and institutional arrangements tha... Read More about Assessment of procurement capacity challenges inhibiting public infrastructure procurement: A Nigerian inquiry.

Plant species or flower colour diversity? Identifying the drivers of public and invertebrate response to designed annual meadows (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Authors There is increasing evidence of the benefits of introducing urban meadows as an alternative to amenity mown grass in public greenspaces, both for biodiversity, and human wellbeing. Developing a better understanding of the meadow ch... Read More about Plant species or flower colour diversity? Identifying the drivers of public and invertebrate response to designed annual meadows.

Health and safety management practices of contractors in South East Asia: A multi country study of Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia (2018)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The construction sector is notorious for accounting for numerous occupational deaths, injuries and illnesses in many countries. In emerging economies this situation could be direr, and health and safety (H&S) management by contrac... Read More about Health and safety management practices of contractors in South East Asia: A multi country study of Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia.