All Outputs (116)

Towards an architecture for wellbeing (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Rice, L., & Sara, R. (2020). Towards an architecture for wellbeing. In 7th International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Built Environment Proceedings. , (75-85)

Architectural design can have profound implications on human health and planetary wellbeing. The built environment is currently one of the most important determinants of health and wellbeing. As human health comprises of physical, mental and social a... Read More about Towards an architecture for wellbeing.

The impact of building form on overheating control: A case study of Larch House (2020)
Journal Article
Lavaf Pour, Y., Sharples, S., & Gething, B. (2020). The impact of building form on overheating control: A case study of Larch House. Architectural Science Review, 63(6), 467-480. https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2020.1759503

Amid recent concern about overheating in Passivhaus, this study investigates geometrical implication of façade design to alleviate overheating in new build energy-efficient homes in the UK. The study proposes self-shading façade design as a less conv... Read More about The impact of building form on overheating control: A case study of Larch House.

National mineral waste databases as an information source for assessing material recovery potential from mine waste, tailings and metallurgical waste (2020)
Journal Article
Žibret, G., Lemiere, B., Mendez, A., Cormio, C., Sinnett, D., Cleall, P., …Carvalho, M. T. (2020). National mineral waste databases as an information source for assessing material recovery potential from mine waste, tailings and metallurgical waste. Minerals, 10(5), Article 446. https://doi.org/10.3390/min10050446

We examined the national mine waste registries from seven European countries, created to fulfil the requirements of the “Mine Waste Directive” (2006/21/EC), for their potential use as an initial source of information for the valorisation of specific... Read More about National mineral waste databases as an information source for assessing material recovery potential from mine waste, tailings and metallurgical waste.

Frameworks for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from municipal solid waste in Oman (2020)
Journal Article
Umar, T. (2020). Frameworks for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from municipal solid waste in Oman. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 31(4), 945-960. https://doi.org/10.1108/MEQ-11-2019-0231

Purpose: The Gulf Cooperation Council member countries not only generate the highest quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) per capita when compared globally, but also in most of these countries, such waste is just dumped at different landfill stati... Read More about Frameworks for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from municipal solid waste in Oman.

Austerity urbanism: Connecting strategies and tactics for participatory placemaking (2020)
Journal Article
Sara, R., Jones, M., & Rice, L. (2021). Austerity urbanism: Connecting strategies and tactics for participatory placemaking. CoDesign, 17(4), 493-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2020.1761985

Austerity has led to a growing interest in small-scale urban practices that engage community groups in participatory placemaking as an alternative to developing government or commercially funded parks and urban spaces. These approaches draw on bottom... Read More about Austerity urbanism: Connecting strategies and tactics for participatory placemaking.

Intra, extra et in muros : Reflecting on a potential multi-disciplinary method to inform a new, urbanist understanding of liminality and temporality in contemporary urban borders (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Devereux, M. (2020, April). Intra, extra et in muros : Reflecting on a potential multi-disciplinary method to inform a new, urbanist understanding of liminality and temporality in contemporary urban borders. Paper presented at Somewhere in Between: Borders and Borderlands, St Anne's College, Oxford University

Urban boundaries are multitudinous. Urban design and associated disciplines concerned with shaping place often base their readings of space and the implementation of urban projects around tangible, mapped legal and administrative borders. Yet, despit... Read More about Intra, extra et in muros : Reflecting on a potential multi-disciplinary method to inform a new, urbanist understanding of liminality and temporality in contemporary urban borders.

Disabled young people's hopes and dreams in a rapidly changing society: A co-production peer research study (2020)
Journal Article
Curran, T., Jones, M., Ferguson, S., Reed, M., Lawrence, A., Cull, N., & Stabb, M. (2021). Disabled young people's hopes and dreams in a rapidly changing society: A co-production peer research study. Disability and Society, 36(4), 561-578. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2020.1755234

The idea that disabled young people should be at the centre of decision making about their future is promoted in policy, practice and research, yet this often translates into a narrow agenda on transitions through service and benefits systems. In thi... Read More about Disabled young people's hopes and dreams in a rapidly changing society: A co-production peer research study.

The architectural virtual: From language to experience (2020)
Book Chapter
Banou, S. (2020). The architectural virtual: From language to experience. In A. Hougaard, & M. Søberg (Eds.), The Arftul Plan: Architectural Drawing Reconfigured (206-221). Basel/Berlin/Boston: Birkhäuser

In recent decades, architecture has persistently engaged with defining its relationship to digitization. The practice of architectural drawing has often been at the centre of this discussion, which has questioned its relevance by putting emphasis on... Read More about The architectural virtual: From language to experience.

Enabling parametric design space exploration by non-designers (2020)
Journal Article
Castro e Costa, E., Jorge, J., Knochel, A. D., & Duarte, J. P. (2020). Enabling parametric design space exploration by non-designers. AI EDAM, 34(2), 160-175. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0890060420000177

In mass customization, software configurators enable novice end-users to design customized products and services according to their needs and preferences. However, traditional configurators hardly provide an engaging experience while avoiding the bur... Read More about Enabling parametric design space exploration by non-designers.

The Bristol One City Approach to city governance: New Civic Leadership in action (2020)
Journal Article
Hambleton, R. (2020). The Bristol One City Approach to city governance: New Civic Leadership in action. Urban Research and Practice, 13(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2020.1752055

The One City Approach to city governance in Bristol, UK is designed to unify civic purpose in the city: it is ambitious, inclusive and innovative. In 2016 the new, directly elected Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, decided to work with a wide range of c... Read More about The Bristol One City Approach to city governance: New Civic Leadership in action.

Challenges towards renewable energy: An exploratory study from the Arabian Gulf region (2020)
Journal Article
Umar, T., Egbu, C., Ofori, G., Honnurvali, M. S., Saidani, M., & Opoku, A. (2020). Challenges towards renewable energy: An exploratory study from the Arabian Gulf region. Proceedings of the ICE - Energy, 173(2), 68-80. https://doi.org/10.1680/jener.19.00034

Considering the importance of energy for social and economic development, access to clean, affordable and reliable energy has been adopted as one of the United Nations sustainable development goals that all countries aim to achieve by 2030. However,... Read More about Challenges towards renewable energy: An exploratory study from the Arabian Gulf region.

Design for safety implementation among design professionals in construction: The context of Palestine (2020)
Journal Article
Abueisheh, Q., Manu, P., Mahamadu, A. M., & Cheung, C. (2020). Design for safety implementation among design professionals in construction: The context of Palestine. Safety Science, 128, Article 104742. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104742

Design for safety (DfS), also known as prevention through design, is a prominent means for tackling work-related illnesses and injuries in construction. However, the available DfS studies in construction have paid very limited attention to developing... Read More about Design for safety implementation among design professionals in construction: The context of Palestine.

Empowering individual homeowners to help meet greenhouse gas targets (2020)
Digital Artefact
Adkins, D. Empowering individual homeowners to help meet greenhouse gas targets. [https://www.imperial.ac.uk/enterprise/staff/techcelerate/participants/cohort-one/deborah-adkins---greener-homes/]

Heating and powering our homes accounts for around 30% of energy consumption in the UK. While new-build homes must meet strict energy efficiency building regulations, older homes will need to be retrofitted if the UK is to meet its 2050 target for lo... Read More about Empowering individual homeowners to help meet greenhouse gas targets.

Organisational attributes that determine integrated safety, health and environmental management capability (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Asah-Kissiedu, M., Manu, P., Booth, C., & Mahamadu, A. (2020). Organisational attributes that determine integrated safety, health and environmental management capability. . https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202031202009

Implementing separate Environmental Management System (EMS) and Safety and Health Management System (SHMS) can be costly for organisations and hence the advent of integrated management systems. The effective implementation of integrated safety, healt... Read More about Organisational attributes that determine integrated safety, health and environmental management capability.

An approach for integrating mixed reality into BIM for early stage design coordination (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Prabhakaran, A., Mahamadu, A., Mahdjoubi, L., & Manu, P. (2020). An approach for integrating mixed reality into BIM for early stage design coordination. . https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202031204001

Building Information Modelling (BIM) and its associated technologies have proved to be one of the most promising developments in Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. Over the past few decades, the AEC sector has been restricted... Read More about An approach for integrating mixed reality into BIM for early stage design coordination.

Attributes that determine the building information modelling capability maturity of quantity surveying practice (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Mahamadu, A., Mahdjoubi, L., Manu, P., & Aigbavboa, C. (2020). Attributes that determine the building information modelling capability maturity of quantity surveying practice. . https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202031202002

With more than 80% of all construction projects overrunning their budget, there is a need for more efficient management of the estimated 10% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that is expended annually on construction across the world. It has been propo... Read More about Attributes that determine the building information modelling capability maturity of quantity surveying practice.

The impact of the “World's 25 Most Endangered Primates” list on scientific publications and media (2020)
Journal Article
Acerbi, A., Kerhoas, D., Webber, A. D., McCabe, G., Mittermeier, R. A., & Schwitzer, C. (2020). The impact of the “World's 25 Most Endangered Primates” list on scientific publications and media. Journal for Nature Conservation, 54, 125794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2020.125794

Assessing the impact of conservation campaigns is of critical importance to optimise the use of limited resources. Lists of threatened species are often employed as media outreach tools, but their usefulness is rarely tested. We investigated whether... Read More about The impact of the “World's 25 Most Endangered Primates” list on scientific publications and media.

What can local government learn from the coronavirus? (2020)
Journal Article
Hambleton, R. (2020). What can local government learn from the coronavirus?. Local Government Chronicle,

This short Opinion article for Local Government Chronicle praises the response of UK local government to the covid-19 pandemic. It goes on to discuss three questions that are important for future public policy: 1) Was our country ready for this onsl... Read More about What can local government learn from the coronavirus?.

Macro-maturity factors and their influence on micro-level BIM implementation within design firms in Italy (2020)
Journal Article
Troiani, E., Mahamadu, A. M., Manu, P., Kissi, E., Aigbavboa, C., & Oti, A. (2020). Macro-maturity factors and their influence on micro-level BIM implementation within design firms in Italy. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 16(3), 209-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2020.1738994

Based on conceptual models of macro-BIM adoption, several factors have been proposed as indicators of BIM maturity at the national level. Such macro-level BIM maturity indicators drive policy and the institutional imperatives for smooth adoption of B... Read More about Macro-maturity factors and their influence on micro-level BIM implementation within design firms in Italy.

Using Learning and Action Alliances to build capacity for local flood risk management (2020)
Journal Article
Maskrey, S., Vilcan, T., O'Donnell, E., & Lamond, J. (2020). Using Learning and Action Alliances to build capacity for local flood risk management. Environmental Science and Policy, 107, 198-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.02.012

Learning and Action Alliances (LAAs) are becoming an increasingly popular method for overcoming the challenges associated with participatory forms of governance, where decision making requires collaboration between stakeholders. In flood risk managem... Read More about Using Learning and Action Alliances to build capacity for local flood risk management.