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Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China (2025)
Journal Article

Purpose: Design for Safety (DfS) has been studied as an effective method to reduce injuries and fatalities in construction. Although the benefits of implementing DfS are gradually being recognised, there is limited research on DfS in developing count... Read More about Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China.

A ‘passive’ approach to Net Zero for New Zealand social housing – preliminary findings (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable applications (2025)
Journal Article

As global energy demand continues to rise, the importance of effective solar management in building design becomes increasingly critical. Solar management encompasses strategies for harvesting, regulating, and utilizing solar energy, contributing sig... Read More about Biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable applications.

Co-production and the key aspects of community involvement in flood risk management (FRM) (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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).

Moderating effects of coping behaviors on stressors–Stress relationships of ethnic minority construction workers (2025)
Journal Article

To overcome the shortage of construction workers in developed countries, the construction industry recruits a minority workforce from developing countries. However, ethnic minority construction workers (EM-CWs) experience numerous stressors in the h... Read More about Moderating effects of coping behaviors on stressors–Stress relationships of ethnic minority construction workers.

SQUIRREL: Balancing design automation and user interaction in a computational tool for designing segmented concrete shells (2025)
Journal Article

The Automating Concrete Construction (ACORN) project explored digital workflows from the design to the construction of reinforced concrete building floor elements, reducing carbon emissions and increasing efficiency of building processes. The resulti... Read More about SQUIRREL: Balancing design automation and user interaction in a computational tool for designing segmented concrete shells.

Towards developing a predictive model for interpersonal communication quality in construction projects: An ensemble artificial intelligence-based approach (2025)
Journal Article

High-quality communication among stakeholders is salient to securing and maintaining collaboration in construction projects. Indeed, the absence of such communication among the workforce leads to inefficiency, low productivity, and substandard delive... Read More about Towards developing a predictive model for interpersonal communication quality in construction projects: An ensemble artificial intelligence-based approach.

Falling risk analysis at workplaces through an accident data-driven approach based upon hybrid Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques (2025)
Journal Article

This study proposed an accident data-driven approach using hybrid AI techniques for the quantification of falling risks at workplaces. Six machine learning models and one ensemble learning model were deployed for automatic extraction of causal factor... Read More about Falling risk analysis at workplaces through an accident data-driven approach based upon hybrid Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques.

Development and evaluation of a maturity assessment tool for integrating building information modelling into operations and maintenance phase of buildings (2025)
Journal Article

The emergence of advanced digital tools such as building information modelling (BIM) has transformed the concept of building management in the construction sector. Despite the promising benefits of BIM in terms of successful project deliveries and en... Read More about Development and evaluation of a maturity assessment tool for integrating building information modelling into operations and maintenance phase of buildings.