Hive mind for Net Zero: Towards a social engagement model for collective home energy behaviour change
(2025)
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Co-production and the key aspects of community involvement in flood risk management (FRM) (2025)
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Flood risk management (FRM) has shifted towards more decentralised and people-centred approaches. This increase in community involvement has become conceptually linked with ‘coproduction,’ used in other societal domains by both academics and professi... Read More about Co-production and the key aspects of community involvement in flood risk management (FRM).
Decision support for building thermal comfort monitoring with a sustainable GenAI system (2025)
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Staff expenses can account for up to 70% of business costs, with indoor conditions playing a critical role in employee health, behavior, and productivity. Optimal thermal comfort, typically around 21°C with 40-70% humidity, maximizes productivity. Ho... Read More about Decision support for building thermal comfort monitoring with a sustainable GenAI system.
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 knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction (2024)
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Low energy building retrofit presents important opportunities for reducing of greenhouse gas emissions in the environment. It has been considered as one of the key approaches to achieving sustainable development in construction industry. Nevertheless... Read More about Exploring knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction.
Smart Biobased Construction (SmartBioC) for climate-positive solutions (2024)
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Smart Biobased Construction (SmartBioC) for climate-positive solutions. SmartBioC aims to speed up the uptake of circular biobased materials to provide zero-carbon, healthy and socially and economically viable solutions for the construction industry.... Read More about Smart Biobased Construction (SmartBioC) for climate-positive solutions.
Revamping occupational safety and health (OS&H) regulations in Pakistan (2024)
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Construction is regarded as the most hazardous industrial sector due to its nature and physical demanding activities. Construction workers in developing countries are 3~4 times more likely to die from accidents on-site compared to workers in other in... Read More about Revamping occupational safety and health (OS&H) regulations in Pakistan.
A ‘passive’ approach to Net Zero for New Zealand social housing – preliminary findings (2024)
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New Zealand's first emissions reduction plan sets out goals to achieve Net Zero for all GHG and a 24-47% reduction in biogenic methane by 2050. Buildings contribute to 10-15% of overall domestic emissions in New Zea-land (NZ). Reducing operational em... Read More about A ‘passive’ approach to Net Zero for New Zealand social housing – preliminary findings.
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.
Occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction: A systematic literature review (2024)
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Modular integrated construction (MiC) has garnered significant global interest from scholars and professionals. Despite its advantages, MiC introduces complex occupational health and safety (H&S) challenges due to its unique aspects, such as offsite... Read More about Occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction: A systematic literature review.
The adoption of UAV for construction safety management: A systematic literature review (2024)
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Ensuring the safety of construction workers necessitates a proactive approach to identify and address potential hazards swiftly. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have proven valuable in enhancing construction site safety by autonomously capturing and... Read More about The adoption of UAV for construction safety management: A systematic literature review.
Exploring the interplay of job-related and personal factors in the well-being of construction project professionals: A conceptual framework (2024)
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Workplace well-being is increasingly recognised as crucial for the work performance of construction professionals. Consequently, identifying factors leading to well-being is essential for employers because this enables them to gauge the well-being of... Read More about Exploring the interplay of job-related and personal factors in the well-being of construction project professionals: A conceptual framework.
Capturing insights: Integrating design for safety educational elements into curricula (2024)
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The significance of Design for Safety (DfS) In engineering and construction education is well-recognized for its role in shaping the skills of future designers. While scholars have explored integrating DfS into education, empirical evidence on educat... Read More about Capturing insights: Integrating design for safety educational elements into curricula.
A conceptual framework and tools characteristics for developing an immersive technology-based occupational health training mechanism (2024)
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Training and education are crucial in tackling occupational safety and health risks, such as manual handling for construction workers as they help workers identify and handle hazards. Concurrently, integrating Immersive Technologies (ImTs) in trainin... Read More about A conceptual framework and tools characteristics for developing an immersive technology-based occupational health training mechanism.
Dimensions of maturity model for institutionalising Smart Circular Construction: A systematic literature review (2024)
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The systematic adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies has potentials to achieve the transition to Smart Circular Construction (SCC). However, the construction literature lacks a systematic guidance of maturity models to inform the transition to circul... Read More about Dimensions of maturity model for institutionalising Smart Circular Construction: A systematic literature review.
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.
Post occupancy evaluation in educational spaces: The impact of seasonal discrepancies (2024)
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This paper presents findings from a Post Occupancy Evaluation research of a BREEAM Excellence-rated university building, to understand the experience of the students using university study spaces. This research focuses on winter conditions and the ou... Read More about Post occupancy evaluation in educational spaces: The impact of seasonal discrepancies.
A conceptual framework for understanding community resilience to flooding (2024)
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Flooding, an already prevalent global hazard, is predicted to worsen in frequency and intensity. Flood Risk Governance has evolved from exclusively combating flooding to now also coexisting with it, aiming to enhance resilience comprehensively and ov... Read More about A conceptual framework for understanding community resilience to flooding.
Global inquiry into transparency in the real estate markets (2024)
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The research is concerned with the perception, definition, and measurement of transparency in real estate markets and exploring any transparency deficits. Understanding market transparency, beyond the current measures available for selected countries... Read More about Global inquiry into transparency in the real estate markets.
“Designer huts” in allotment gardens – A new phenomenon – A case of Warsaw, Poland (2024)
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Allotment gardens are widespread across Europe. Their gardeners maintain green oases in otherwise heavily built-up areas by cultivating urban land and caring for the green space. Thus, they generate positive externalities by privately managing public... Read More about “Designer huts” in allotment gardens – A new phenomenon – A case of Warsaw, Poland.