Colin Booth's Outputs (71)

Sustainability of bridge maintenance (2019)
Journal Article

Bridge maintenance activities are important to consider within sustainable development due to the cost and environmental impact associated with various maintenance activities. Comparisons have been made between different bridge structural forms, base... Read More about Sustainability of bridge maintenance.

Assessment of procurement capacity challenges inhibiting public infrastructure procurement: A Nigerian inquiry (2018)
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© 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.

Probability of fatigue failure in brick masonry under compressive loading (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Long-term fatigue tests under compressive loading were performed on low-strength brick masonry prisms under laboratory conditions. The number of loading cycles to failure were recorded and used to investigate the suitability of th... Read More about Probability of fatigue failure in brick masonry under compressive loading.

Infrastructure procurement skills gap amongst procurement personnel in Nigeria’s public sector (2017)
Journal Article

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Procurement of public infrastructure that is fit for purpose partly depends on the competencies of procurement personnel. In many developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, there is a d... Read More about Infrastructure procurement skills gap amongst procurement personnel in Nigeria’s public sector.

Experimental evaluation of changes in strain under compressive fatigue loading of brick masonry (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Assessing the long-term performance of masonry structures and their response to increased loading conditions are critical to safety and maintenance. A series of laboratory tests have been carried out on brick masonry to assess its... Read More about Experimental evaluation of changes in strain under compressive fatigue loading of brick masonry.

Engineering properties of tropical clay and bentonite modified with sawdust (2017)
Journal Article

Construction Engineers typically avoid the use of expansive soils as construction materials because they are usually difficult to work on and can cause structural failure. This research work investigates how the application of sawdust to tropical cla... Read More about Engineering properties of tropical clay and bentonite modified with sawdust.

Critical BIM qualification criteria for construction pre-qualification and selection (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Despite emerging research on Building Information Modelling (BIM) capability, there remain no studies that specifically look at criteria for the pre-qualification and selection of constr... Read More about Critical BIM qualification criteria for construction pre-qualification and selection.

Cement stabilisation of crude-oil-contaminated soil (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, Thomas Telford Services Ltd. All rights reserved. Crude-oil-contaminated soils are usually considered unsuitable construction materials for earthworks. This paper presents an experimental investigation of the effects of applying Portland ceme... Read More about Cement stabilisation of crude-oil-contaminated soil.

Stakeholder perceptions of the benefits and barriers of implementing environmental management systems in the Nigerian construction industry (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) Press. This study investigates stakeholder opinions of the major benefits and barriers of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) to the Nigerian construction industry, and the perceived issues to E... Read More about Stakeholder perceptions of the benefits and barriers of implementing environmental management systems in the Nigerian construction industry.

Dysfunctional neighbourhoods: A conceptual framework for urban regeneration and renewal (2015)
Journal Article

For neighbourhoods within area-based initiatives for regeneration and renewal, they often experience difficulties of poverty, disadvantage, and deprivation. Furthermore, the experience of function or dysfunction is also important when exploring neigh... Read More about Dysfunctional neighbourhoods: A conceptual framework for urban regeneration and renewal.

Experimental insights of using waste marble fines to modify the geotechnical properties of a lateritic soil (2015)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2015 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) Press. Marble spoil waste is an environmental nuisance. The effects of adding waste marble fines (WMF) on the plasticity, strength and permeability of a lateritic clay have been investiga... Read More about Experimental insights of using waste marble fines to modify the geotechnical properties of a lateritic soil.

Evidence for improved urban flood resilience by sustainable drainage retrofit (2015)
Journal Article

© ICE Publishing: All rights reserved. The rapid growth of cities under modern development pressure has resulted in surface water flooding becoming an increasing hazard and future climate change uncertainties may exacerbate this threat still further:... Read More about Evidence for improved urban flood resilience by sustainable drainage retrofit.

Integrated delivery of quality, safety and environment through road sector procurement: The case of public sector agencies in Ghana (2015)
Journal Article

Poor quality, safety and environmental (QSE) performance within Ghana's road sector has been cited as a major challenge in the procurement of infrastructure. This study evaluates the applicability and level of integrated consideration of QSE in the d... Read More about Integrated delivery of quality, safety and environment through road sector procurement: The case of public sector agencies in Ghana.

Reducing floodwater ingress rates through an exterior masonry wall of a domestic building: A pilot investigation (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – Experimental field test apparatus has been used to determine the inter-variability and intra-variability floodwater ingress rates of the masonry wall of a domestic building, before and after prepara... Read More about Reducing floodwater ingress rates through an exterior masonry wall of a domestic building: A pilot investigation.

Assessing the accessibility of the Wolverhampton interchange, UK (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Thomas Telford Services Ltd. All rights reserved. The UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) of 2005 requires transport service providers and local authorities to make reasonable infrastructure adjustments to accommodate the needs of disabled... Read More about Assessing the accessibility of the Wolverhampton interchange, UK.

Benefits of urban land use planning in Ghana (2014)
Journal Article

The urban land use planning literature is rife with criticism of the deficiency of planning regimes in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, little is known of the magnitude of the economic impact of these land use planning regimes, leading to a lack of cle... Read More about Benefits of urban land use planning in Ghana.

Insights of experimental studies on the load carrying capacity of masonry under eccentric loading (2014)
Journal Article

Prediction of the load carrying capacity of masonry under combined axial load and flexure is a key priority for the assessment of masonry arches, pillars, vaults and walls. Despite the wealth of experimental data on the behaviour of masonry structure... Read More about Insights of experimental studies on the load carrying capacity of masonry under eccentric loading.

A dynamic approach to urban road deposited sediment pollution monitoring (Marylebone Road, London, UK) (2014)
Journal Article

The use of mineral magnetic measurements (χLF, χARM and SIRM) as a potential pollution proxy using road deposited sediment (RDS) is explored as an alternative means of monitoring pollution on a busy city road. Comparison of sediment-related analytica... Read More about A dynamic approach to urban road deposited sediment pollution monitoring (Marylebone Road, London, UK).

Potential linkages between mineral magnetic measurements and urban roadside soil pollution (part 2) (2014)
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Use of mineral magnetic concentration parameters (χLF, χARM and SIRM) as a potential pollution proxy for soil samples collected from Wolverhampton (UK) is explored. Comparison of soil-related analytical data by correlation analyses between each magne... Read More about Potential linkages between mineral magnetic measurements and urban roadside soil pollution (part 2).

Mineral magnetic measurements as a particle size proxy for urban roadside soil pollution (part 1) (2013)
Journal Article

The use of mineral magnetic concentration parameters (χLF, χARM and SIRM) as a potential particle size proxy for soil samples collected from Wolverhampton (UK) is explored as an alternative means of normalizing particle size effects. Comparison of so... Read More about Mineral magnetic measurements as a particle size proxy for urban roadside soil pollution (part 1).