A Holistic Approach for Fostering Community Engagement in the Decision-Making of Risk-Sensitive Urban Planning and Development (2023)
Thesis
Geekiyanage, D. (2023). A Holistic Approach for Fostering Community Engagement in the Decision-Making of Risk-Sensitive Urban Planning and Development. (Thesis). The University of Salford

In the face of increasing extreme climate events, communities are often excluded from decision-making during pre-disaster and urban planning, despite their tacit knowledge and experience in disaster response and recovery. This marginalisation poses a... Read More about A Holistic Approach for Fostering Community Engagement in the Decision-Making of Risk-Sensitive Urban Planning and Development.

Advanced technologies for offering situational intelligence in flood warning and response systems : a literature review (2022)
Journal Article
Samansiri, S., Fernando, T., & Ingirige, B. (2022). Advanced technologies for offering situational intelligence in flood warning and response systems : a literature review. Water, https://doi.org/10.3390/w14132091

Deaths and property damage from floods have increased drastically in the past two 9 decades due to various reasons such as increased population, unplanned development and climate 10 change. Such losses from floods can be reduced by issuing timely e... Read More about Advanced technologies for offering situational intelligence in flood warning and response systems : a literature review.

Climate financing barriers and strategies : the case of Sri Lanka (2022)
Journal Article
Dasandara, M., Ingirige, B., Kulatunga, U., & Fernando, T. (2022). Climate financing barriers and strategies : the case of Sri Lanka. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMPC-12-2021-0069

Purpose: Climate change mitigation and adaptation play an important role in overcoming the climate change challenges facing Sri Lanka today. Many initiatives have been undertaken to implement different policies and plans in this regard, which requir... Read More about Climate financing barriers and strategies : the case of Sri Lanka.

Transformation towards risk-sensitive urban development : a systematic review of the issues and challenges (2021)
Journal Article
Roslan, A., Fernando, T., Biscaya, S., & Sulaiman, N. (2021). Transformation towards risk-sensitive urban development : a systematic review of the issues and challenges. Sustainability, 13(19), 10631. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910631

Risk-sensitive urban development is an innovative planning approach that can transform the way cities are built to face uncertainties that arise from climate-induced disaster risks. However, the potential to initiate such a transformative approach ha... Read More about Transformation towards risk-sensitive urban development : a systematic review of the issues and challenges.

Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., Fernando, T., & Keraminiyage, K. (2021). Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis. Sustainability, 13(16), e8992. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168992

Despite the fact that vulnerable communities are the most affected by unplanned cities, considerably less attention has been given to involving them in urban development in order to ensure equitable outcomes. In this regard, there is an urgent need f... Read More about Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis.

Measuring community disaster resilience at local levels : an adaptable resilience framework (2021)
Journal Article
Tariq, H., Pathirage, C., & Fernando, T. (2021). Measuring community disaster resilience at local levels : an adaptable resilience framework. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 62, 102358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102358

Decision makers, practitioners and community members need to assess the disaster resilience of their communities and to understand better the risks they face from natural hazards. There is a lack of consensus on what resilience means and how it can b... Read More about Measuring community disaster resilience at local levels : an adaptable resilience framework.

A review of post-study and post-task subjective questionnaires to guide assessment of system usability (2021)
Journal Article
Hodrien, A., & Fernando, T. (2021). A review of post-study and post-task subjective questionnaires to guide assessment of system usability. Journal of usability studies, 16(3), 203-232

Usability is a key consideration when developing an interactive software application because of the various outcomes it can produce. Accordingly, numerous evaluation methods have been proposed, however, a recent review of usability methods concluded... Read More about A review of post-study and post-task subjective questionnaires to guide assessment of system usability.

Impact of proactive behaviour antecedents on construction project managers’ performance (2021)
Journal Article
Kapogiannis, G., Fernando, T., & Alkhard, A. (2021). Impact of proactive behaviour antecedents on construction project managers’ performance. Construction innovation (London. Online), 21(4), 708-722. https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-02-2020-0029

Purpose: Many aspects of social behaviour are manifested in project managers in interaction with team members in the construction sector. Proactive behaviour as a social behaviour impacts on project and organizational effectiveness. This paper aims... Read More about Impact of proactive behaviour antecedents on construction project managers’ performance.

Factors influencing acceptance or rejection regarding being the host community for post-disaster resettlements in developing countries (2020)
Journal Article
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., Keraminiyage, K., Fernando, T., & Jayawickrama, T. (2021). Factors influencing acceptance or rejection regarding being the host community for post-disaster resettlements in developing countries. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 53, 101973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101973

Post-disaster relocations have both positive and negative impacts on host communities. Receiving the host community’s willingness to host the new community is essential to ensure integration and the sustainability of the new resettlement. This “wil... Read More about Factors influencing acceptance or rejection regarding being the host community for post-disaster resettlements in developing countries.

A novel techno-economic multi-level optimization in home-microgrids with coalition formation capability (2020)
Journal Article
Ganjehlou, H., Niaei, H., Jafari, A., Aroko, D., Marzband, M., & Fernando, T. (2020). A novel techno-economic multi-level optimization in home-microgrids with coalition formation capability. Sustainable Cities and Society, 60, 102241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102241

In recent years, microgrids (MG's) have operated in the power systems for various reasons such as reduction of energy losses, improvement of voltage stability and grid reliability. The implementation of Home Microgrid (H-MG) has proven successful in... Read More about A novel techno-economic multi-level optimization in home-microgrids with coalition formation capability.

Dynamic thermal simulation of advanced natural ventilation in buildings : current and future usage, UK exemplar (2019)
Journal Article
Ji, Y., Lee, A., & Fernando, T. (2020). Dynamic thermal simulation of advanced natural ventilation in buildings : current and future usage, UK exemplar. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 16(4), 293-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2019.1693334

This paper evaluates the use of advanced natural ventilation (ANV) strategies in a range of climatic conditions from four cities in the UK. A prototype ANV system was proposed to determine the most effective case in mitigating overheating. The case w... Read More about Dynamic thermal simulation of advanced natural ventilation in buildings : current and future usage, UK exemplar.

Are smart innovation ecosystems really seeking to meet citizens’ needs? Insights from the stakeholders’ vision on smart city strategy implementation (2019)
Journal Article
vision on smart city strategy implementation. Smart Cities, 2(2), 307-327. https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities2020019

The concept of a smart city is becoming the leading paradigm worldwide. Consequently, a creative mix of emerging technologies and open innovation is gradually becoming the defining element of smart city evolution, changing the ways in which city ad... Read More about Are smart innovation ecosystems really seeking to meet citizens’ needs? Insights from the stakeholders’ vision on smart city strategy implementation.

Collaborative virtual reality platform for visualizing space data and mission planning (2019)
Journal Article
Garcia, A., Fernando, T., Roberts, D., Bar, C., Cencetti, M., Engelke, W., & Gerndt, A. (2019). Collaborative virtual reality platform for visualizing space data and mission planning. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78, 33191-33220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-7736-8

This paper presents the system architecture of a collaborative virtual environment in which distributed multidisciplinary teams involved in space exploration activities come together and explore areas of scientific interest of a planet for future mis... Read More about Collaborative virtual reality platform for visualizing space data and mission planning.

Exploring cross-domain data dependencies for smart homes to improve energy efficiency (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Iram, S., Fernando, T., & Bassanino, M. (2017, December). Exploring cross-domain data dependencies for smart homes to improve energy efficiency. Presented at 10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Austin, Texas, USA

Over the past decade, the idea of smart homes has been conceived as a potential solution to counter energy crises or to at least mitigate its intensive destructive consequences in the residential building sector. Smart homes have emerged as one of th... Read More about Exploring cross-domain data dependencies for smart homes to improve energy efficiency.

Interoperability specification development for integrated BIM use in performance based design (2017)
Journal Article
Arayici, Y., Fernando, T., Munoz, V., & Bassanino, M. (2017). Interoperability specification development for integrated BIM use in performance based design. Automation in Construction, 85, 167-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2017.10.018

Interoperability in BIM is low and the focus is on 3D coordination. Despite the available standards including IFC and IDM, there is still no clear guidance how such standards can be effectively used for performance based design. Thus, early collabora... Read More about Interoperability specification development for integrated BIM use in performance based design.

A real-time evaluation of energy management systems for smart hybrid home microgrids (2016)
Journal Article
Marzband, M., Ghazimirsaeid, S., Uppal, H., & Fernando, T. (2017). A real-time evaluation of energy management systems for smart hybrid home microgrids. Electric Power Systems Research, 143, 624-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2016.10.054

Real-time energy management within the concepts of home Microgrids (H-MG) systems is crucial for H-MG operational reliability and safe functionality, regardless of simultaneously emanated variations in generation and load demand transients. In this p... Read More about A real-time evaluation of energy management systems for smart hybrid home microgrids.

Optimal energy management system based on stochastic approach for a home microgrid with integrated responsive load demand and energy storage (2016)
Journal Article
Marzband, M., Alavi, H., Ghazimirsaeid, S., Uppal, H., & Fernando, T. (2017). Optimal energy management system based on stochastic approach for a home microgrid with integrated responsive load demand and energy storage. Sustainable Cities and Society, 28, 256-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2016.09.017

In recent years, increasing interest in developing small-scale fully integrated energy resources in distributed power networks and their production has led to the emergence of smart Microgrids (MG), in particular for distributed renewable energy reso... Read More about Optimal energy management system based on stochastic approach for a home microgrid with integrated responsive load demand and energy storage.

A resilience framework for critical infrastructure (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Thayaparan, M., Ingirige, B., Pathirage, C., Kulatunga, U., & Fernando, T. (2016, August). A resilience framework for critical infrastructure. Presented at 12th International conference of the International Institute for Infrastructure Resilience and Reconstruction, Kandy Sri Lanka

Infrastructures facilitate economic growth, protect human health and the environment and promote welfare and prosperity. Modern societies, therefore, rely heavily on continuous and reliable services provided critical infrastructure. Destructions to t... Read More about A resilience framework for critical infrastructure.

Design 3D on-line gaming environment for learning how to design green buildings (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Bassanino, M., Fernando, T. P., Campion, S., Alkandari, A., Ghazimirsaeid, S., & Masior, J. (2015, September). Design 3D on-line gaming environment for learning how to design green buildings. Presented at ILTT Conference, London

This paper presents an approach for using e-learning to design a training environment for both students and professionals to learn ‘how to design Green Buildings’ developed as part of the D4E European project. The idea of the training environment i... Read More about Design 3D on-line gaming environment for learning how to design green buildings.

A new methodology for designing energy efficient buildings in neighbourhoods (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Mäkeläinen, T., Klobut, K., Hannus, M., Sepponen, M., Fernando, T., Bassanino, M., …Firth, S. (2014, September). A new methodology for designing energy efficient buildings in neighbourhoods. Presented at 10th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, Vienna, Austria

Within the frame of the recently launched EU project “Design4Energy” an attempt is being made to develop a design methodology that is able to create energy-efficient buildings within the context of their neighbourhoods. The work presented in this pap... Read More about A new methodology for designing energy efficient buildings in neighbourhoods.