All Outputs (119)

Becoming ecological citizens: Connecting people through performance art, food matter and practices (2016)
Journal Article
Roe, E., & Buser, M. (2016). Becoming ecological citizens: Connecting people through performance art, food matter and practices. cultural geographies, 23(4), 581-598. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015624243

© The Author(s) 2016. Engaging the interest of Western citizens in the complex food connections that shape theirs’ and others’ personal wellbeing around issues such as food security and access is challenging. This article is critical of the food mark... Read More about Becoming ecological citizens: Connecting people through performance art, food matter and practices.

Developing a leadership advantage? An assessment of the impact of mayoral governance in Bristol (2016)
Journal Article
Hambleton, R., & Sweeting, D. (2016). Developing a leadership advantage? An assessment of the impact of mayoral governance in Bristol. Regions Magazine, 302, 17-18

This article provides a summary of the main findings emerging from a 'before' and 'after' action-research study of the impact on a city of introducing a directly elected mayor form of governance. The discussion shows how the introduction of mayoral... Read More about Developing a leadership advantage? An assessment of the impact of mayoral governance in Bristol.

English devolution: Learning lessons from international models of sub-national governance. A short guide (2016)
Report
Hambleton, R. (2016). English devolution: Learning lessons from international models of sub-national governance. A short guide

This national guidance document for local authorities in England provides a summary of a longer research report setting out an international analysis of alternative approaches to sub-national governance. The guidance identifies six principles of goo... Read More about English devolution: Learning lessons from international models of sub-national governance. A short guide.

English devolution: Learning lessons from international models of sub-national governance (2016)
Report
Hambleton, R. (2016). English devolution: Learning lessons from international models of sub-national governance

This research report provides an international analysis of alternative approaches to sub-national governance. It examines the driving forces that are encouraging governments to create new city region governance arrangements and provides six principl... Read More about English devolution: Learning lessons from international models of sub-national governance.

Application of classification trees for comparative analysis of construction project manager’s competencies (2016)
Journal Article
Dziekoński, K. (2016). Application of classification trees for comparative analysis of construction project manager’s competencies. Polish Journal of Management Studies, 14(2), 40-50. https://doi.org/10.17512/pjms.2016.14.2.04

© 2016 Czestochowa University of Technology. All rights reserved. Project managers’ competencies are one of the factors that have the greatest impact on the success of a project. Therefore, a characteristic of a project manager is an important issue... Read More about Application of classification trees for comparative analysis of construction project manager’s competencies.

3D capture techniques for BIM enabled LCM (2016)
Journal Article
Fadli, F., Barki, H., Shaat, A., Mahdjoubi, L., Boguslawski, P., & Zverovich, V. (2016). 3D capture techniques for BIM enabled LCM. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 467, 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33111-9_17

© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016. As a special kind of Product Life cyle Management (PLM), Building Life cycle Management (BLM) is a centric activity for facility owners and managers. This fact motivates the adoption of... Read More about 3D capture techniques for BIM enabled LCM.

Public perceptions of sustainable drainage devices (2016)
Book Chapter
Everett, G. (2016). Public perceptions of sustainable drainage devices. In C. Booth, & S. Charlesworth (Eds.), Sustainable Surface Water Management: A Handbook for SuDS (285-298). Chichester, United Kingdom: Wiley

This chapter considers the centrality of human perceptions, and so behaviour, to the sustainability of SuDS. Research shows a lack of engagement with flood preparedness and flood risk mitigation (FRM) in the public as a whole, and many people are ave... Read More about Public perceptions of sustainable drainage devices.

Textual cities/working drawings: Rereading the space of the drawing (2016)
Book Chapter
Banou, S. (2016). Textual cities/working drawings: Rereading the space of the drawing. In J. Mejía Hernández, S. Oliveira, M. Proosten, & K. Havik (Eds.), Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature (206-215). Rotterdam: nai010 publishers

The analogy of the text is a common one for space and the city, whether it is referred to in terms of reading, enunciating (De Certeau) or writing it (Serres). In the beginning of the 20th century, the new theories of space-time and the increasing mo... Read More about Textual cities/working drawings: Rereading the space of the drawing.

Drawing the digital: From 'virtual' experiences of spaces to 'real' drawings (2016)
Book Chapter
Banou, S. (2016). Drawing the digital: From 'virtual' experiences of spaces to 'real' drawings. In L. Allen, & L. C. Pearson (Eds.), Drawing Futures: Speculations Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture (20-27). London: UCL Press

Over the latter half of the twentieth century the proliferation of images has affected deeply the way we approach and engage with our surroundings, contributing to an increasingly mediated experience of reality. We ‘place’ ourselves in this world not... Read More about Drawing the digital: From 'virtual' experiences of spaces to 'real' drawings.

Health and safety management practices in the Nigerian construction industry: A survey of construction firms in South Western Nigeria (2016)
Book Chapter
Agbede, J. O., Manu, P., Agbede, O. A., & Mahamadu, A. (2016). Health and safety management practices in the Nigerian construction industry: A survey of construction firms in South Western Nigeria. In P. Matthijs, H. Wamelink, B. Giddings, & K. Ku (Eds.), Proceedings of the CIB World Building Congress 2016: Volume II - Environmental Opportunies and Challenges. Constructing Commitment and Acknowledging Human Experiences (293-304). Tampere: Tampere University of Technology

Despite the relevance of the construction sector in developing countries, the industry continues to record unacceptable levels of accidents and fatalities. The situation is no different in Nigeria where health and safety (H&S) management has been cit... Read More about Health and safety management practices in the Nigerian construction industry: A survey of construction firms in South Western Nigeria.

Improving the uptake of flood resilience at the individual property level (2016)
Journal Article
Rose, C., Lamond, J., Dhonau, M., Joseph, R., & Proverbs, D. (2016). Improving the uptake of flood resilience at the individual property level. International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering, 6(3), 607-615. https://doi.org/10.2495/SAFE-V6-N3-607-615

© 2016 WIT Press. One of the drivers for improving resilience to flooding at property level (also known as adoption of a 'water entry strategy') was demonstrated by the overtopping of hard engineered flood defences across Cumbria, UK during 'Storm De... Read More about Improving the uptake of flood resilience at the individual property level.

Proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016 (2016)
Book
Manu, P., Westcott, T., & Spedding, A. (2016). A. Spedding, T. Westcott, & P. Manu (Eds.), Proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016. Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy

This is the proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016 jointly organised with Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) and Nigerian Institution of... Read More about Proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016.

Exploring the critical factors and forces affecting the longevity and resilience of community-scale green infrastructure (2016)
Thesis
Jerome, G. Exploring the critical factors and forces affecting the longevity and resilience of community-scale green infrastructure. (Thesis). University of Liverpool. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/920184

In an ongoing period of austerity in the UK, there is a growing assumption that communities will increasingly help deliver what have traditionally been seen as public services. This thesis seeks to explore the extent to which community groups make a... Read More about Exploring the critical factors and forces affecting the longevity and resilience of community-scale green infrastructure.

Green roof and permeable paving retrofit to mitigate pluvial flooding (2016)
Book Chapter
Wilkinson, S., Proverbs, D., & Lamond, J. (2016). Green roof and permeable paving retrofit to mitigate pluvial flooding. In S. Charlesworth, & C. Booth (Eds.), Sustainable surface water management (245-258). London: Wiley-Blackwells

Green roof retrofit is seen to be to be an important part of climate adaptation strategies for CBDs generally and in Melbourne in particular. Retrofit of perrmeable paving is also an important SUDs approach within crowded CBDs. The potential for miti... Read More about Green roof and permeable paving retrofit to mitigate pluvial flooding.

National benchmark for green infrastructure: A feasibility study (2016)
Report
Smith, N., Calvert, T., Sinnett, D., Burgess, S., & King, L. (2016). National benchmark for green infrastructure: A feasibility study

This research examines whether a market exists for a national benchmark for green infrastructure (GI) in England. It is funded through a Natural Environment Research Council Innovation Fund (Grant Reference: NE/N016971/1). This builds on a Knowledge... Read More about National benchmark for green infrastructure: A feasibility study.

Green infrastructure: Research into practice (2016)
Report
Sinnett, D., Calvert, T., Martyn, N., Williams, K., Burgess, S., Smith, N., & King, L. (2016). Green infrastructure: Research into practice

The Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments at the University of the West of England, Bristol have been commissioned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to conduct a review of how the evidence base for Green Infrastructure (GI... Read More about Green infrastructure: Research into practice.

What works in encouraging the take up of low carbon products and services in households? (2016)
Report
Organ, S., Schoon, N., Squires, G., & Wood, M. (2016). What works in encouraging the take up of low carbon products and services in households?

A report based on rapid evidence assessment outlining the approaches which have been used to encourage greater uptake of energy efficiency and low carbon products/services amongst householders. Focusing on UK households, the report draws on evidence... Read More about What works in encouraging the take up of low carbon products and services in households?.

Dimensionality reduction for parametric design exploration (2016)
Book Chapter
Harding, J. (2016). Dimensionality reduction for parametric design exploration. In S. Adriaenssens, F. Gramazio, M. Kohler, A. Menges, & M. Pauly (Eds.), Advances in Architectural Geometry 2016 (274-287). Zurich, Switzerland: vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zurich

In architectural design, parametric models often include numeric parameters that can be adjusted to explore different design options. The resulting design space can be easily displayed to the user if the number of parameters is low, for example using... Read More about Dimensionality reduction for parametric design exploration.

Valuing the urban trees in Bridgend county borough (2016)
Report
Doick, K., Albertini, A., Handley, P., Lawrence, V., Rogers, K., & Rumble, H. (2016). Valuing the urban trees in Bridgend county borough. Forest Research

Urban forests provide a range of services, often termed ecosystem services, that help alleviate problems associated with urbanisation. Trees improve local air quality, capture carbon, reduce flooding and cool urban environments. They provide habitat... Read More about Valuing the urban trees in Bridgend county borough.