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Exploring geologic-cost factors in flood prone housing construction in coastal communities of the Niger delta (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Amadi, A. (2016, June). Exploring geologic-cost factors in flood prone housing construction in coastal communities of the Niger delta. Presented at CHOBE/ARCOM Doctoral Workshop : Going North for Sustainability, London South Bank University, United Kingdom

The right to adequate housing is one of the key sustainable development goals of the United Nations, and a fundamental human right. Community-based adaptation is also a central theme in building resilience to flooding. The Niger Delta Region of Nig... Read More about Exploring geologic-cost factors in flood prone housing construction in coastal communities of the Niger delta.

Change management framework to enable sustainable outsourcing of facilities management services (2016)
Journal Article
Sridarran, P., & Fernando, N. (2016). Change management framework to enable sustainable outsourcing of facilities management services. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 6(3), 317-331. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-08-2014-0041

Purpose: In this present globalised era, outsourcing has become a very popular and much sought after procurement strategy for Facilities Management (FM). Generally, a sustainable procurement system should be capable enough to deliver the services fre... Read More about Change management framework to enable sustainable outsourcing of facilities management services.

Disruption management of resource schedule in transportation sector : understanding the concept and strategy (2016)
Journal Article
Osman, M., Kaewunruen, S., An, M., & Dindar, S. (2016). Disruption management of resource schedule in transportation sector : understanding the concept and strategy. Procedia Engineering, 161(2016), 1295-1299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.592

Disruption in a schedule (or plan) can be managed but not all factors are visible. A study of disruption management is performed specifically to minimize the differences between the expected and actual context of execution. The purpose of this paper... Read More about Disruption management of resource schedule in transportation sector : understanding the concept and strategy.

Occupant productivity and office indoor environment quality : a review of the literature (2016)
Journal Article
Al horr, Y., Arif, M., Kaushik, A., Mazroei, A., Katafygiotou, M., & Elsarrag, E. (2016). Occupant productivity and office indoor environment quality : a review of the literature. Building and Environment, 105, 369-389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.06.001

The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature to draw an understanding of the relationship between indoor environmental quality and occupant productivity in an office environment. The study reviews over 300 papers from 67 journals, c... Read More about Occupant productivity and office indoor environment quality : a review of the literature.

Development of a framework to enhance communication practice for site-based construction workers in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2016)
Thesis
Alaboud, N. Development of a framework to enhance communication practice for site-based construction workers in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of Salford

Construction projects are information intensive. A typical project generates tens of thousands of documents in the form of drawings, change orders, requests for information, specifications, etc. To ensure effective construction communication and coor... Read More about Development of a framework to enhance communication practice for site-based construction workers in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Mobile computing applications within construction (2016)
Book Chapter
Aziz, Z., Harun, N., & Alaboud, N. (2016). Mobile computing applications within construction. In S. Perera, B. Ingirige, K. Ruikar, & E. Obonyo (Eds.), Advances in Construction ICT and e-business. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315690698

Given the fact that construction sites comprise dynamic and unstructured work environments and hazardous work settings, it necessitates the use of intelligent ways to support mobile construction workers. In recent years, there have been significant d... Read More about Mobile computing applications within construction.

Challenges of railway safety risk assessment and maintenance decision making (2016)
Book Chapter
An, M., & Qin, Y. (2016). Challenges of railway safety risk assessment and maintenance decision making. In B. Umesh Rai (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Emerging Innovations in Railway Transportation Engineering (173-211). USA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0084-1.ch009

Railway safety is a very complicated subject, which is determined by numerous aspects. Many of qualitative and quantitative railway safety and risk analysis techniques and methods are used in the industry. But, however, the railway industry faces pro... Read More about Challenges of railway safety risk assessment and maintenance decision making.

Achieving incremental cost reduction via kaizen costing in the Nigerian construction industry (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Omotayo, T., & Kulatunga, U. (2016, May). Achieving incremental cost reduction via kaizen costing in the Nigerian construction industry. Presented at CIB world building congress 2016, Finland

Nigerian small and medium scale construction firms are facing challenges of cost and time overruns which have led to project abandonment and liquidation of some of these firms. This is also as a result of large scale dissatisfaction of clients. This... Read More about Achieving incremental cost reduction via kaizen costing in the Nigerian construction industry.

Understanding social accountability : politics, power and building new social contracts (2016)
Journal Article
Hickey, S., & King, S. (2016). Understanding social accountability : politics, power and building new social contracts. Journal of Development Studies, 52(8), 1225-1240. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1134778

Calls to deepen levels of social accountability within social protection interventions need to be informed by the now extensive experience of promoting social accountability in developing countries. Drawing on a systematic review of over 90 social ac... Read More about Understanding social accountability : politics, power and building new social contracts.

Developing an audit checklist to assess outdoor falls risk (2016)
Journal Article
Curl, A., Ward Thompson, C., Aspinall, P., & Ormerod, M. G. (2016). Developing an audit checklist to assess outdoor falls risk. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning, 169(3), 138-153. https://doi.org/10.1680/udap.14.00056

Falls by older people (aged 65+ years) are linked to disability and a decrease in mobility, presenting a challengeto active ageing. As such, older fallers represent a vulnerable road user group. Despite this, there is little researchinto the causes a... Read More about Developing an audit checklist to assess outdoor falls risk.

Critical success factors for employee suggestion schemes : a literature review (2016)
Journal Article
Lasrado, F., Arif, M., Rizvi, A., & Urdzik, C. (2016). Critical success factors for employee suggestion schemes : a literature review. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 24(2), 315-339. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-04-2014-0753

Employee suggestion schemes have existed for many years and numerous articles on this subject have been published over the last several decades. These schemes have been studied from many perspectives to illustrate their objectives, nature, content, p... Read More about Critical success factors for employee suggestion schemes : a literature review.

Disaster vulnerability of Emirati energy sector and barriers to enhance resilience (2016)
Journal Article
Pathirage, C., & Al-Khaili, K. (2016). Disaster vulnerability of Emirati energy sector and barriers to enhance resilience. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 6(4), 403-414. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-08-2015-0035

Purpose: UAE has experienced various natural and man-made hazards. The energy sector dominates in the UAE and protection of this critical infrastructure against any impending hazards is important. This paper examined the vulnerability of Emirati ener... Read More about Disaster vulnerability of Emirati energy sector and barriers to enhance resilience.

Sustainability and investment appraisal for housing regeneration projects (2016)
Journal Article
Higham, A., Fortune, C., & Boothman, J. (2016). Sustainability and investment appraisal for housing regeneration projects. Structural survey, 34(2), 150-167. https://doi.org/10.1108/SS-09-2015-0044

Purpose – This paper assesses the selection and use, in practice, of appraisal frameworks regarding sustainability evaluation in UK social housing sector projects, which have been advocated by academics as a means of ensuring that business decisions... Read More about Sustainability and investment appraisal for housing regeneration projects.

Design summer year weather - outdoor warmth ranking metrics and their numerical verification (2016)
Journal Article
Ji, Y., Zhang, Y., Korolija, I., & Futcher, J. (2016). Design summer year weather - outdoor warmth ranking metrics and their numerical verification. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 37(6), 639-663. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143624416648179

The existing methods of selecting design summer year weather data rely on the outdoor dry bulb temperature without considering solar radiation and wind which can impact on indoor thermal conditions. This research sets out to examine the existing out... Read More about Design summer year weather - outdoor warmth ranking metrics and their numerical verification.

Impact of indoor environmental quality on occupant well-being and comfort : a review of the literature (2016)
Journal Article
AlHorr, Y., Arif, M., Katafygiotou, M., Mazroei, A., Kaushik, A., & Elsarrag, E. (2016). Impact of indoor environmental quality on occupant well-being and comfort : a review of the literature. International Journal for Sustainable Built Environment, 5(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsbe.2016.03.006

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and its effect on occupant well-being and comfort is an important area of study. This paper presents a state of the art study through extensive review of the literature, by establishing links between IEQs and occupa... Read More about Impact of indoor environmental quality on occupant well-being and comfort : a review of the literature.

Developing and testing the urban sustainable development goal’s targets and indicators – a five-city study (2016)
Journal Article
Simons, D., Arfvidsson, H., Anand, G., Bazaz, A., Fenna,, F., Foster, K., …Wright, C. (2016). Developing and testing the urban sustainable development goal’s targets and indicators – a five-city study. Environment and Urbanization, 28(1), 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247815619865

The campaign for the inclusion of a specifically urban goal within the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was challenging. Numerous divergent interests were involved, while urban areas worldwide are also extremely heterogeneous. It... Read More about Developing and testing the urban sustainable development goal’s targets and indicators – a five-city study.

BIM based design management of a building project collaboratively designed with a foreign design firm in China : a case study (2016)
Journal Article
Aziz, Z., Tezel, B., & chuxiong, J. (2016). BIM based design management of a building project collaboratively designed with a foreign design firm in China : a case study. International journal of 3-D information modeling (Online), 5(2), 16-38. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJ3DIM.2016040102

In parallel with China’s growing construction market, there has been an influx of foreign architectural and engineering design firms into the Chinese construction market. Those firms generally form partnerships with local Chinese firms or institution... Read More about BIM based design management of a building project collaboratively designed with a foreign design firm in China : a case study.

A systems approach to strategic infrastructure delivery (2016)
Journal Article
Potts, M., McDermott, P., & Stephenson, A. (2016). A systems approach to strategic infrastructure delivery. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 169(3), 95-105. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmapl.15.00026

This paper discusses a systems approach to the strategic delivery of infrastructure in the regulated UK water sector as part of a participatory-focused research project. Part of an ongoing PhD programme, this paper highlights the value of a strategic... Read More about A systems approach to strategic infrastructure delivery.

A study of real estate student satisfaction in Australia (2016)
Journal Article
Poon, J. (2016). A study of real estate student satisfaction in Australia. Pacific Rim Property Research Journal, 21(3), 215-233. https://doi.org/10.1080/14445921.2016.1140859

The paper aims to establish an overall review of satisfaction of real estate students in Australia. The Course Experience Questionnaire within the Australian Graduate Survey is used for this paper. Dimensionality reduction was used to prepare the inf... Read More about A study of real estate student satisfaction in Australia.