All Outputs (7)

Feeling the Earthship house: Eliciting a perspective of posterity through immersive virtual reality (2023)
Journal Article
Sudhakaran, G., Prabhakaran, A., Mahamadu, A. M., Booth, C. A., & Wiejak Roy, G. (in press). Feeling the Earthship house: Eliciting a perspective of posterity through immersive virtual reality. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, https://doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-05-2023-0122

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.

Role of local landlords in small-town high streets – a study of Trowbridge, UK (2023)
Journal Article
Armstrong, K., & Wiejak-Roy, G. (in press). Role of local landlords in small-town high streets – a study of Trowbridge, UK. Infrastructure Asset Management, https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.23.00014

High streets are a vital part of national identity and infrastructure. Responses to high street decline need to encourage stakeholder engagement. The prominence of local retail landlords as a key potential stakeholder group in smaller towns has been... Read More about Role of local landlords in small-town high streets – a study of Trowbridge, UK.

Recycling English town centres – from retail to healthcare: surveys, views and next steps (2023)
Journal Article
Wiejak-Roy, G., & Hunter, G. (in press). Recycling English town centres – from retail to healthcare: surveys, views and next steps. Journal of European Real Estate Research, https://doi.org/10.1108/JERER-01-2023-0002

Purpose: Many town centres in England exhibit high retail property vacancies and require regeneration. Several alternatives for the replacement of town centre retail (TCR) have been suggested, one of which is healthcare. The healthcare sector in Engl... Read More about Recycling English town centres – from retail to healthcare: surveys, views and next steps.

Stakeholder opinions of implementing environmental management systems in the construction sector of the U.S (2023)
Journal Article
Beck Schildt, J. C., Booth, C. A., Horry, R. E., & Wiejak-Roy, G. (2023). Stakeholder opinions of implementing environmental management systems in the construction sector of the U.S. Buildings, 13(5), Article 1241. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051241

Environmental concerns over the effects of construction sector activities necessitate meaningful measures to be taken. Despite worldwide increases in the uptake of environmental management systems (EMS), implementation of EMS across the construction... Read More about Stakeholder opinions of implementing environmental management systems in the construction sector of the U.S.

Embodied carbon reporting by German real estate institutional investors (2023)
Journal Article
Weinfeld, S., Wiejak-Roy, G., & Booth, C. A. (2023). Embodied carbon reporting by German real estate institutional investors. Journal of Sustainability Research, 5(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20230003

Background: The building sector is one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gas emissions across the globe. The European Union pledges to become climate neutral by 2050. To reach this goal, member states will need to account for embodied carbon... Read More about Embodied carbon reporting by German real estate institutional investors.

Strategic vendor due diligence in real estate transactions (2022)
Journal Article
Wiejak-Roy, G. (2023). Strategic vendor due diligence in real estate transactions. Journal of European Real Estate Research, 16(1), 78-91. https://doi.org/10.1108/JERER-04-2022-0012

Purpose: In light of the ever-growing complexity of real estate transactions, the need for vendors and buyers to better understand the role of vendor due diligence (VDD) is imperative. The purpose of this paper is twofold: firstly, it provides a deta... Read More about Strategic vendor due diligence in real estate transactions.

Institutional imperfections and buyer-induced holdout in land acquisition (2021)
Journal Article
Saha, S., Chowdhury, P. R., Roy, J., & Wiejak-Roy, G. (2021). Institutional imperfections and buyer-induced holdout in land acquisition. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 177(3), 261-298. https://doi.org/10.1628/jite-2021-0012

We look beyond the well-studied issues of fair compensation, regulatory takings, and seller-induced holdout that arise in the government purchase of land for economic development. We argue that political rivalry distorts land acquisition negotiatio... Read More about Institutional imperfections and buyer-induced holdout in land acquisition.