Outputs (77)
Implementing environmental management systems (ISO14001) in the construction sector of Ghana (2025)
Journal Article
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) enable organisations to manage their environmental impacts. Globalisation has resulted in more organisations needing to engage in environmental sustainability. In developed nations ISO 14001 provides the key gui... Read More about Implementing environmental management systems (ISO14001) in the construction sector of Ghana.
Insights into the use of GRESB as an ESG benchmarking tool (2025)
Journal Article
Purpose - Sustainability practices and reporting have consistently evolved over the years with trends towards more holistic approaches with respect to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). In the real estate sector over the last deca... Read More about Insights into the use of GRESB as an ESG benchmarking tool.
Handbook of Drivers of Continuous Improvement in Construction Health, Safety, and Wellbeing (2024)
Book
This Handbook presents opportunities, best practices, and case studies backed by cutting edge research on the drivers of continuous improvement of health, safety, and wellbeing in the architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management s... Read More about Handbook of Drivers of Continuous Improvement in Construction Health, Safety, and Wellbeing.
History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
his research explores the use of History to enhance education in the field of ICT For Sustainability (ICT4S) in response to a challenge from the ICT4S 2023 conference. No previous studies were found in ICT4S but the literature on History and Educatio... Read More about History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students.
Creating a learning environment that values multiple perspectives, in the face of climate related design challenges (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This presentation explores the importance of learning environments for Higher Education students that value multiple perspectives on a specific design challenge. Using examples from the classroom, this presentation will explore the vital role of inte... Read More about Creating a learning environment that values multiple perspectives, in the face of climate related design challenges.
A transdisciplinary engineering and systems approach for decarbonizing UK home heating (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
At present, only around 10% of the heat pumps required to reach our critical 2050 climate goals are being installed in the UK. The government has set ambitious targets to phase out gas boilers by 2035, replacing them with heat pumps. This paper argue... Read More about A transdisciplinary engineering and systems approach for decarbonizing UK home heating.
Retrofit information challenges and potential solutions: Perspectives of households, retrofit professionals and local policy makers in the United Kingdom (2024)
Journal Article
Rapidly scaling up energy retrofit for existing buildings is critical to help meet climate targets. Information is frequently identified as a key barrier to residential retrofit. This paper explores the role of information sharing in accelerating ret... Read More about Retrofit information challenges and potential solutions: Perspectives of households, retrofit professionals and local policy makers in the United Kingdom.
Findings: Survey of Airlander in South Yorkshire (2024)
Report
The study explored public perceptions of Airlander in the Doncaster area, focusing on:
1.Its economic and environmental impacts.
2.Public awareness and alignment with the UKRI Future Flight initiative.
Broad Awareness: 75% of respondents had heard... Read More about Findings: Survey of Airlander in South Yorkshire.
Collaboration for the sustainable food supply chain: A bibliometric analysis (2024)
Journal Article
There is increasing attention on the topic of collaboration for sustainable food supply chains (SFSCs), with increasingly contributing journals and publications every year. The urgency of this topic is even more highlighted due to the COVID‐19 pandem... Read More about Collaboration for the sustainable food supply chain: A bibliometric analysis.
Solar-integrated biogas reactor for efficient kitchen waste conversion to biogas (2024)
Journal Article
This study aimed to improve biogas production by co-digesting kitchen waste and animal manure in a solar-integrated biogas reactor. The panel then heated the substrate mixture to the right temperature for the reactor after turning solar energy into e... Read More about Solar-integrated biogas reactor for efficient kitchen waste conversion to biogas.
Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness (2024)
Journal Article
Crises such as water quality, pollution, climate change, overfishing, biodiversity, energy, waste, and carbon sequestration mean that legislation protecting the marine environment is under intense pressure to be effective and to demonstrate positive... Read More about Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness.
Exploring IPD as an antidote to fragmentation within the UK construction sector (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The Construction Industry has for long been criticised for poor performance and lack of collaborative culture. Studies over the years have linked these to fragmentation amongst project teams - which still leads to cost overruns and project delays. Co... Read More about Exploring IPD as an antidote to fragmentation within the UK construction sector.
Sensing solutions in soil biodiversity and carbon monitoring; from acoustics to biosensing (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This presentation formed an overview of the current research into the technologies we are developing in SOAS at UWE for the analysis of soil carbon dynamics and soil biodiversity. It highlights three main strands; electrochemical (bio)sensing, gas s... Read More about Sensing solutions in soil biodiversity and carbon monitoring; from acoustics to biosensing.
Impact of corruption on achieving sustainable development goals within Africas construction industry (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Corruption is prevalent across the construction industry in developing countries. This is due to converging factors such as (a) the sector’s requirement for substantial capital investment, (b) government involvement, (c) time pressures to deliver new... Read More about Impact of corruption on achieving sustainable development goals within Africas construction industry.
Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning (2024)
Book Chapter
Higher Education Institutions have an important role to play in Climate Education. One dimension of this role is to equip future practitioners with the necessary knowledge and skills. Therefore, interdisciplinary approaches to learning and teaching.... Read More about Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning.
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study (2024)
Journal Article
The potential for green community groups to respond effectively to climate change depends on the heterogeneity of preferences of individual member activists. Using a Q-methodology study of two groups in England, we propose an original typology of col... Read More about Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study.
Impact of industry 5.0 on sustainable development with machine learning and the role of internal audit: Literature review (2024)
Book Chapter
This chapter delves into the potential impact of Industry 5.0 on sustainable development and associated risks. It emphasizes the importance of mitigating these risks while taking into account the interests of all stakeholders involved. The chapter ai... Read More about Impact of industry 5.0 on sustainable development with machine learning and the role of internal audit: Literature review.
A meta-model for understanding ‘green-red loop’ social-water interactions at a global scale (2024)
Journal Article
Within the coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), social-water interactions exhibit the ‘green-loop’ and ‘red-loop’ patterns, where social development is dependent on the local and external environment for resource provision, respectively. Sustai... Read More about A meta-model for understanding ‘green-red loop’ social-water interactions at a global scale.