Outputs (484)

A literature review of the evolution of British prefabricated low-rise housing (2016)
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© 2016, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore academic papers and reports and present a chronology of the evolution of British low-rise prefabricated housing. The paper provides chronological information... Read More about A literature review of the evolution of British prefabricated low-rise housing.

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

Counter-Conduct; The Architecture of Fools in the city of Nowa Huta (2016)
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During Communism in the second half of the 20th Century the ‘analytical space’ of Polish cities was dominated by the architectural intent of creating a new type of human: ‘homo-sovieticus . Any distancing from the prescribed mode of behaviour that wo... Read More about Counter-Conduct; The Architecture of Fools in the city of Nowa Huta.

New tool will help civil engineers meet CDM requirements to design for safety (2016)
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© ICE Publishing. All rights reserved. A new tool is being developed to help civil engineers and other construction professionals improve their capability to design for safety under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations. Patrick Manu a... Read More about New tool will help civil engineers meet CDM requirements to design for safety.

Memory palaces within the space of architectural production (2016)
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© Taylor & Francis 2016. A model of the space of architectural production is proposed where the building is imagined as a memory palace. In this model, building work is understood to be foreshadowed by an imaginary architecture that both predicts t... Read More about Memory palaces within the space of architectural production.

The dual half-edge-a topological primal/dual data structure and construction operators for modelling and manipulating cell complexes (2016)
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© 2016 by the authors. There is an increasing need for building models that permit interior navigation, e.g., for escape route analysis. This paper presents a non-manifold Computer-Aided Design (CAD) data structure, the dual half-edge based on the Po... Read More about The dual half-edge-a topological primal/dual data structure and construction operators for modelling and manipulating cell complexes.

Application of classification trees for comparative analysis of construction project manager’s competencies (2016)
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© 2016 Czestochowa University of Technology. All rights reserved. Project managers’ competencies are one of the factors that have the greatest impact on the success of a project. Therefore, a characteristic of a project manager is an important issue... Read More about Application of classification trees for comparative analysis of construction project manager’s competencies.

Perceived comfort and adaptive process of passivhaus 'participants' (2015)
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Passivhaus methodology leads to buildings with very high thermal efficiency and high levels of airtightness. The focus of research in Passivhaus is energy performance. The experience of occupying a Passivhaus is often overlooked. This research takes... Read More about Perceived comfort and adaptive process of passivhaus 'participants'.

The early design stage for building renovation with a novel loop-heat-pipe based solar thermal facade (LHP-STF) heat pump water heating system: Techno-economic analysis in three European climates (2015)
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Most of the building renovation plans are usually decided in the early design stage. This delicate phase contains the greatest opportunity to achieve the high energy performance buildings after refurbishment. It is therefore important to provide the... Read More about The early design stage for building renovation with a novel loop-heat-pipe based solar thermal facade (LHP-STF) heat pump water heating system: Techno-economic analysis in three European climates.

Isn’t all loss consequential? A review of recent case law and its relevance to contractual practices within the built environment (2015)
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The purpose of this paper is to demystify the meaning of the term “consequential loss” in relation to the practice of construction law. Parties may have different understandings of the term and typically an exclusion clause will not solely... Read More about Isn’t all loss consequential? A review of recent case law and its relevance to contractual practices within the built environment.

The comparison study between UK daylighting simulation-Malaysia daylighting simulations due to overcast sky conditions (2015)
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Due to the growing demand for building energy simulation in buildings, lot of work has been done in research since last 50 years but still a huge area needs to be covered. The current state of research, which is moving towards building energy simulat... Read More about The comparison study between UK daylighting simulation-Malaysia daylighting simulations due to overcast sky conditions.

Impact of Job Stressors and Stress on the Safety Behavior and Accidents of Construction Workers (2015)
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© 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers. Construction workers (CWs) are usually exposed to various job-related hazards while working on construction sites, especially when there is a lack of appropriate equipment, working without support, or being... Read More about Impact of Job Stressors and Stress on the Safety Behavior and Accidents of Construction Workers.

Assessing the direction of climate interactions by means of complex networks and information theoretic tools (2015)
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© 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. An estimate of the net direction of climate interactions in different geographical regions is made by constructing a directed climate network from a regular latitude-longitude grid of nodes, using a directionality index (DI... Read More about Assessing the direction of climate interactions by means of complex networks and information theoretic tools.

Market-based valuation multiples: Evidence from agribusiness sector (2015)
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This paper investigates the choice of multiples in valuing the plantation firms in Malaysia from 2003 to 2009. The plantation industry is a homogenous business model that produces commodity products thus rendering excellent empirical settings to reve... Read More about Market-based valuation multiples: Evidence from agribusiness sector.

The effect of appraiser rotation : Dutch institutional investors’ experience (2015)
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Institutional investors experience a large valuation gap when they change appraiser on their investment properties compared to months or quarters when there is no change of appraiser.

We find that appraiser rotation leads to a significant effec... Read More about The effect of appraiser rotation : Dutch institutional investors’ experience.

Assessing the accessibility of the Wolverhampton interchange, UK (2015)
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© 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.

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

Stakeholders mapping – A case of international logistics projects (2015)
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Implementation of projects often causes social conflicts, resulting in delays or even abandonment of the project. Those conflicts often arise or are revealed around projects related to the development and creation of logistics infrastructure. One of... Read More about Stakeholders mapping – A case of international logistics projects.

The problematic differentiation between property bonds and leases in healthcare provision: A Southern Cross case study (2015)
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© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – There are some 487,000 places in long-stay residential care and nursing homes in the UK representing an industry worth some £15.2 billion per annum. Creating leases with guaranteed rental uplifts, a prope... Read More about The problematic differentiation between property bonds and leases in healthcare provision: A Southern Cross case study.

Summer thermal comfort and self-shading geometries in Passivhaus dwellings: A pilot study using future UK climates (2015)
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© 2015 by the authors. This study uses numerical thermal simulation to investigate the potential use of building geometry to eliminate or reduce current and future thermal discomfort overheating risk in UK Passivhaus dwellings. The study focused on t... Read More about Summer thermal comfort and self-shading geometries in Passivhaus dwellings: A pilot study using future UK climates.