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History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students (2024)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Exploring IPD as an antidote to fragmentation within the UK construction sector (2024)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Exploring domestic consumption patterns: A HomeLabs study on water and energy use (2024)
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Water and energy utilities are in constant pursuit of deeper insights into consumer use patterns within homes. Traditional demand management strategies often rely on an "information deficit" model, presuming that consumer behaviour can be altered sim... Read More about Exploring domestic consumption patterns: A HomeLabs study on water and energy use.

The role of GBGI in levelling up in Bristol (2024)
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We examined the association between provision and experience of a range of green-blue-grey infrastructure and neighbourhood satisfaction, life satisfaction, wellbeing and general health. We found that satisfaction with greenspace was the most consist... Read More about The role of GBGI in levelling up in Bristol.

Building height and density effects related to winter and summer temperature and precipitation simulation based on Local Climate Zones in a coastal city: A case study of Istanbul (2024)
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The temperature and precipitation extremes of coastal cities are modulated by land-atmospheric interactions and modified land surfaces. Local climate zones are used as land use representations in a convection-permitting model to simulate precipitatio... Read More about Building height and density effects related to winter and summer temperature and precipitation simulation based on Local Climate Zones in a coastal city: A case study of Istanbul.

Strategies used for decolonising the conservation curriculum: A systematic review (2023)
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Decolonisation is the process of undoing the effects of colonialism and the conservation industry, along with university institutions, have identified a need for decolonisation. However, with a lack of clarity on how to decolonise, many in the conser... Read More about Strategies used for decolonising the conservation curriculum: A systematic review.

Solar street art for a participatory energy transition (2023)
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The need to reduce global carbon emissions drives the renewable energy transition which can deeply transform cities. Façade retrofit plays an important role in improving the energy performance of the existing building stock. In renovation projects, t... Read More about Solar street art for a participatory energy transition.

Engineering and project management: A long journey towards sustainability (2023)
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The environmental, social, and financial sustainability around projects is currently one of the most serious alarming concerns. However, the progress made in developing contemporary methods for the evaluation and adoption of sustainable project manag... Read More about Engineering and project management: A long journey towards sustainability.

Let’s play together (2023)
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Throughout 2022-23 Watershed (cultural cinema & creative technology centre) have been working with an architect & socially-engaged artist on plans to adapt their building for the Climate Emergency. Watershed leads within its communities with a proud... Read More about Let’s play together.

Listening to all the stakeholders? The UN Sustainable Development Goals as requirements in Systems Engineering (2023)
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The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a global agreement on 'the world we want' by 2030. Many businesses have identified SDGs that they contribute towards. Can we also use them as requirements in Systems Engineering? This talk will... Read More about Listening to all the stakeholders? The UN Sustainable Development Goals as requirements in Systems Engineering.

Allotment gardens in Warsaw, Poland – from fruit and veg to designed huts (2023)
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Allotment gardens are a well-established phenomenon in Central and Eastern Europe. Their users, predominantly in towns, through cultivation of land and care for the green space, create green oases in now busy urban areas. As such these locations now... Read More about Allotment gardens in Warsaw, Poland – from fruit and veg to designed huts.

Is integrated project delivery sufficient to reduce adversarialism in the UK construction industry? (2023)
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Adversarialism is an endemic feature of the construction industry, resulting in devasting effects on productivity, cost, performance and client satisfaction within the industry. This can be explained by various factors of which adversarial ‘tradition... Read More about Is integrated project delivery sufficient to reduce adversarialism in the UK construction industry?.

Developing community leadership for action on affordable, healthy, and sustainable food issues (2023)
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In the context of the current cost of living crisis, many activists are working within their communities to promote access to affordable, healthy, and sustainable food. Yet there are very few opportunities share experiences, ideas and resources betwe... Read More about Developing community leadership for action on affordable, healthy, and sustainable food issues.

Let’s play together: The role of positive, creative & collective practices towards climate emergency retrofit in a context of technocratic domination (2022)
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Throughout 2022 & 2023 Watershed Bristol (cultural cinema, talent development & creative technology centre) will be working with George Lovesmith, architect & socially-engaged artist on plans to adapt their grade II listed (UK heritage status) buildi... Read More about Let’s play together: The role of positive, creative & collective practices towards climate emergency retrofit in a context of technocratic domination.

Improving thermal performance, replacing gas heaters: A holistic approach to decarbonising domestic energy (2022)
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This talk discussed present challenges, policies, drivers and barriers to the decarbonisation of the UK domestic housing stock and how to create buildings fit for the future.

Exploring climate science and its effects on the built environment (2022)
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Climate change has a direct impact on the built environment. By examining its effects, this talk discussed how to create buildings fit for the future.