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Design for safety : safety consideration in planning and design of airport airsides (2016)
Journal Article
Al-Saadi, M., & An, M. (2016). Design for safety : safety consideration in planning and design of airport airsides. International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 10(4), 448-460. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1112129

During airport planning and design stages, the major issues of capacity and safety in construction and operation of an airport need to be taken into consideration. The airside of an airport is a major and critical infrastructure that usually consists... Read More about Design for safety : safety consideration in planning and design of airport airsides.

Micrometeorological simulations to predict the impacts of heat mitigation strategies on pedestrian thermal comfort in a Los Angeles neighborhood (2016)
Journal Article
Taleghani, M., Sailor, D., & Ban-Weiss, G. (2016). Micrometeorological simulations to predict the impacts of heat mitigation strategies on pedestrian thermal comfort in a Los Angeles neighborhood. Environmental Research Letters, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024003

The urban heat island impacts the thermal comfort of pedestrians in cities. In this paper, the effects of four heat mitigation strategies on micrometeorology and the thermal comfort of pedestrians were simulated for a neighborhood in eastern Los Ange... Read More about Micrometeorological simulations to predict the impacts of heat mitigation strategies on pedestrian thermal comfort in a Los Angeles neighborhood.

Corporate social responsibility in construction industry: a comparative study between UK and Turkey (2016)
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Ulutaş, D., Giritli, H., & McDermott, P. (2016). Corporate social responsibility in construction industry: a comparative study between UK and Turkey. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 6(2), 218-231. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-08-2014-0039

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has evolved to an important agenda for many industries and its scope has been widened from the responsible business to strategic decisions. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the concept of CSR from the pe... Read More about Corporate social responsibility in construction industry: a comparative study between UK and Turkey.

Military aircrafts' classification based on their sound signature (2016)
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Barbarosou, M., Paraskevas, I., & Ahmed, A. (2016). Military aircrafts' classification based on their sound signature. Aircraft engineering, 88(1), 66-72. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEAT-04-2014-0040

Purpose: This paper aims to present a system framework for classifying different models of military aircrafts, which is based on the sound they produce. Design/methodology/approach: The technique is based on extracting a compact feature set, of... Read More about Military aircrafts' classification based on their sound signature.

Adoption of BIM by architectural firms in India : technology–organization–environment perspective (2016)
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Ahuja, R., Jain, M., Sawhney, A., & Arif, M. (2016). Adoption of BIM by architectural firms in India : technology–organization–environment perspective. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 12(4), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2016.1186589

Building information modelling (BIM) is being heralded as a remarkable innovation in the built environment sector with expectations of lofty sector-wide improvements. Some countries have shown remarkable levels of uptake of BIM, along the way docu... Read More about Adoption of BIM by architectural firms in India : technology–organization–environment perspective.

Sustainable return on investment : towards a method of valuing social and environmental change in the built environment (2016)
Journal Article
Bichard, E. (2016). Sustainable return on investment : towards a method of valuing social and environmental change in the built environment

Predictive and evaluative approaches that define the economic impacts and benefits of developments have been used over many decades to value materials, construction methods, labour, maintenance, occupation etc. More recently, valuation approaches us... Read More about Sustainable return on investment : towards a method of valuing social and environmental change in the built environment.

Advantages and limitations of community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects (2016)
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Ophiyandri, T., Amaratunga, D., & Keraminiyage, K. (2016). Advantages and limitations of community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 7(4), 420-431. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-08-2014-0066

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the advantages and limitations of the implementation of a community-based method in post-disaster housing reconstruction. Design/methodology/approach The research was based on multipl... Read More about Advantages and limitations of community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects.

BIM adoption within Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) : an innovation diffusion model (2016)
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Hosseini, M., Banihashemi, S., Chileshe, N., Namzadi, M., Udeaja, C., Rameezdeen, R., & McCuen, T. (2016). BIM adoption within Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) : an innovation diffusion model. Construction Economics and Building, 16(3), 71-86. https://doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v16i3.5159

Despite the envisaged benefits of BIM adoption for SMEs, BIM in SMEs has remained an underrepresented area within the available academic literature. This study proposes and draws upon a framework grounded on innovation diffusion theory (IDT) to provi... Read More about BIM adoption within Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) : an innovation diffusion model.