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Demands, default options and definitions: How artefacts mediate sustainability in public housing projects in Sweden and Cyprus (2022)
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Sustainable building design practices are influenced by requirements, guidelines, criteria for green procurement and certification, assessment tools such as life cycle assessment, etc. This study investigates how such artefacts support or define aspi... Read More about Demands, default options and definitions: How artefacts mediate sustainability in public housing projects in Sweden and Cyprus.

Criteria for preliminary risk assessment of Brownfield site: An international survey of experts (2022)
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Comprehensive risk assessment of brownfield sites requires a broad range of knowledge and multi-disciplinary expertise. Whilst the identification of criteria requirements for preliminary risk assessment has received some attention, there appears to b... Read More about Criteria for preliminary risk assessment of Brownfield site: An international survey of experts.

BIM-based immersive collaborative environment for furniture, fixture and equipment design (2022)
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One of the most critical issues related to the current application of virtual reality during design appraisal is the inability to have a collaborative virtual environment where a group of geographically remote stakeholders can interact and communicat... Read More about BIM-based immersive collaborative environment for furniture, fixture and equipment design.

Can microbial inoculants boost soil food webs and vegetation development on newly constructed extensive green roofs? (2022)
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Green roofs are a key to providing nature-based solutions in cities. However, most green roofs installed in the Northern hemisphere are shallow, stonecrop planted systems (“extensive” green roofs), which have been shown to support limited biodiversit... Read More about Can microbial inoculants boost soil food webs and vegetation development on newly constructed extensive green roofs?.

Road pavement defect investigation using treated and untreated expansive road subgrade materials with varying plasticity index (2022)
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Road pavement defect has been a major issue in the construction industry leading to a high cost of maintenance and sometimes a total reconstruction of the road. Expansive road subgrade materials are one of the major causes of these road defects. In t... Read More about Road pavement defect investigation using treated and untreated expansive road subgrade materials with varying plasticity index.

Energy efficiency renovation financing models for homeowners and net present value analysis: Case study from India (2022)
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In India, the lack of financing mechanisms has been identified as a major impediment in achieving energy efficiency (EE) and requires focused research to identify barriers and propose innovative financial models. This paper presents details of select... Read More about Energy efficiency renovation financing models for homeowners and net present value analysis: Case study from India.

A critique of the representationalist framing of design (2022)
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This paper brings attention to the chronological developments in a strand of design research that aimed at demystifying the characteristics and nature of design through what will be argued to have been predominantly a representationalist framework. I... Read More about A critique of the representationalist framing of design.

Embodied carbon, embodied energy and renewable energy: A review of Environmental Product Declarations (2022)
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Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) to EN 15804 provide information about embodied carbon of construction products - their life cycle greenhouse gas emissions - alongside reporting use of renewable and non-renewable primary energy and secondary... Read More about Embodied carbon, embodied energy and renewable energy: A review of Environmental Product Declarations.

Detrimental effects of tourist trails on soil system dynamics in Ubatuba Municipality, São Paulo State, Brazil (2022)
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People continue to search for idyllic havens of natural beauty, whether to visit for themselves or for others to appreciate and admire. These are usually sites with natural elements that integrate environmental functions. However, increasing tourist... Read More about Detrimental effects of tourist trails on soil system dynamics in Ubatuba Municipality, São Paulo State, Brazil.

BIM-based construction safety risk library (2022)
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This paper presents a digital tool and Safety Risk library to assist designers in their health and safety work in BIM digital environments. Addressing an industry need for improved knowledge sharing and collaboration, the BIM Safety Risk library tool... Read More about BIM-based construction safety risk library.

Embodied carbon of concrete in buildings, Part 2: Are the messages accurate? (2022)
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This paper is the second output of a project that examines the embodied greenhouse gas emissions (‘embodied carbon’) from the use of concrete in buildings. In the current absence of either regulation or widespread industry practice in quantified carb... Read More about Embodied carbon of concrete in buildings, Part 2: Are the messages accurate?.

Trading disaster: Containers and container thinking in the production of climate precarity (2022)
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This paper examines how global trade shapes and intensifies disasters. Juxtaposing three basic, everyday consumer goods – a t-shirt, a brick, and a tea bag – with disasters manifesting in their respective global supply chains, it highlights how clima... Read More about Trading disaster: Containers and container thinking in the production of climate precarity.

Towards adoption of mobile data collection for effective adaptation and climate risk management in Africa (2022)
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The collection and use of data on climate change and its impacts are crucial for effective climate adaptation and climate risk management. The revolution in internet access, technology and costs has led to a shift from using traditional paper-based d... Read More about Towards adoption of mobile data collection for effective adaptation and climate risk management in Africa.

From the guttermost to the uttermost and back (2022)
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This article comprises an auto-ethnography of my life’s journey: I entered town planning fifty years ago and am now over seventy. It is a personal testimony of how my social class, gender, religion, education, personal characteristics, family and inn... Read More about From the guttermost to the uttermost and back.

Systematic review of the health and equity impacts of remediation and redevelopment of contaminated sites (2022)
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(1) Background: Globally there is a vast legacy of contaminated sites from past industrial, commercial and military activity, waste disposal, and mineral extraction. This review examined the extent to which the remediation of contaminated sites reduc... Read More about Systematic review of the health and equity impacts of remediation and redevelopment of contaminated sites.

Virtual reality utility and usefulness in the furniture fixture and equipment sector: A validation of interactive and distributed immersion (2022)
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Purpose: The Furniture, Fixture and Equipment (FFE) sector is well placed to leverage virtual reality (VR) technology for competitive and operational advantages; however, the diffusion of VR applications in this sector has followed a steep curve. Thi... Read More about Virtual reality utility and usefulness in the furniture fixture and equipment sector: A validation of interactive and distributed immersion.

Modelling future trends of annual embodied energy of urban residential building stock in China (2022)
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China is the largest driver of growth in the global building sector. The longstanding construction boom across China has generated a massive flow of materials with significant associated embodied energy consumption and carbon emissions. Despite the s... Read More about Modelling future trends of annual embodied energy of urban residential building stock in China.

Perceptions Of Colour Form And Amenity In Green Spaces (2022)
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Designing healthy resilient places for people doesn't need to be too challenging or complicated. We might be best to remember that a landscape-led approach works best, where the landscape comes first, and provides the framework within the built envir... Read More about Perceptions Of Colour Form And Amenity In Green Spaces.

Assessing movement quality on straight leg raise using neural networks and data science (2022)
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Wearable sensors used to measure position/orientation and acceleration during exercise for knee and hip osteoarthritis have the potential to enhance physiotherapy rehabilitation through the personalisation of exercise. This data can be used to monito... Read More about Assessing movement quality on straight leg raise using neural networks and data science.

Architects’ ‘enforced togetherness’: New design affordances of the home (2022)
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Lockdown impositions have impacted people’s lives, their health and wellbeing, changing the ways in which dwellings are used and occupied. Spaces within the home have had to be rapidly renegotiated, redesigned and resynchronised in ways not yet fully... Read More about Architects’ ‘enforced togetherness’: New design affordances of the home.