All Outputs (10)

Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Panakaduwa, C., Coates, P., & Munir, M. (2024). Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence.

80% of the housing stock by 2050 in the UK has already been built. Currently, the UK housing stock contributes 18% of the total UK emissions. Due to the legal requirement of the UK government to achieve net zero by 2050, the housing stock poses a con... Read More about Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence.

What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Coates, P., Munir, M., & Panakaduwa, C. (2024). What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review.

The study identifies the factors that demotivate homeowners from
retrofitting their houses. Retrofit is defined as improving the energy performance, ventilation or reducing carbon emission of a building. According to the statistics, the progress rat... Read More about What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review.

Greening the Brown: Sustainable Retrofitting of UK Houses through Green Walls and Green Roofs (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Panakaduwa Gamage, C. (2024, September). Greening the Brown: Sustainable Retrofitting of UK Houses through Green Walls and Green Roofs. Paper presented at Third International ISHS Symposium on Greener Cities: Improving Ecosystem Services in a Climate-Changing World, London, United Kingdom

The study identifies the scope of literature on the potential application of green walls and roofs in housing retrofits, mainly focusing on the UK context. Housing retrofit in the UK has become a major concern in the sustainability agenda due to the... Read More about Greening the Brown: Sustainable Retrofitting of UK Houses through Green Walls and Green Roofs.

Optimising Visual User Interfaces to Reduce Cognitive Fatigue and Enhance Mental Well-being (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Panakaduwa, C., Coates, P., Munir, M., & De Silva, O. (in press). Optimising Visual User Interfaces to Reduce Cognitive Fatigue and Enhance Mental Well-being.

User interface design is a key priority in modern computer systems, especially when the users are non-technical. Due to the importance of designing more user-friendly interfaces, the focus has been increased on designing human-centred systems over fu... Read More about Optimising Visual User Interfaces to Reduce Cognitive Fatigue and Enhance Mental Well-being.

2024 SPARC Book Of Abstracts (2024)
Book
Abdullahi, B., Alhasan, R., Al-Humadi, W., Alnajdawi, R., Alshaibani, N., Amadi, U. D., …Yoma Galleguillos, M. (2024). T. Ireland (Ed.), 2024 SPARC Book Of Abstracts. Salford: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2024 SPARC conference. Our conference this year was called “Celebrating your research and growing your networks”, with a focus theme of sustainability.

Sustainability is important for us all, sustaining the... Read More about 2024 SPARC Book Of Abstracts.

Evaluation of Government Actions Discouraging Housing Energy Retrofit in the UK: A Critical Review (2024)
Journal Article
Panakaduwa, C., Coates, P., & Munir, M. (2024). Evaluation of Government Actions Discouraging Housing Energy Retrofit in the UK: A Critical Review. https://doi.org/10.1109/eem60825.2024.10608933

Housing energy retrofit has become a key priority in achieving the climate goals in the UK, mainly reaching net zero by 2050. However, the poor demand for housing retrofit from the homeowners has been identified as a key problem in driving retrofit a... Read More about Evaluation of Government Actions Discouraging Housing Energy Retrofit in the UK: A Critical Review.

Comparative analysis of homeowner decision-support systems for housing retrofit in the UK (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Panakaduwa Gamage, C., Coates, P., & Munir, M. (in press). Comparative analysis of homeowner decision-support systems for housing retrofit in the UK.

Housing retrofit in the UK has become critically important in the UK due to several reasons such as poor health & comfort, carbon emissions and fuel poverty. However, the progress of the housing retrofit is observed to be low as there is no proper de... Read More about Comparative analysis of homeowner decision-support systems for housing retrofit in the UK.

Identifying sustainable retrofit challenges of historical Buildings: A systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Panakaduwa, C., Coates, P., & Munir, M. (2024). Identifying sustainable retrofit challenges of historical Buildings: A systematic review. Energy and Buildings, 313, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114226

The UK is reported to have approximately 400,000 historical buildings as listed buildings and buildings in conservation sites. Due to the historical value of these buildings, the level of changes possible to these buildings is limited. However, the g... Read More about Identifying sustainable retrofit challenges of historical Buildings: A systematic review.

How artificial intelligence will change the housing retrofit process (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Panakaduwa, C., Coates, P., & Munir, M. (2024). How artificial intelligence will change the housing retrofit process.

The operation of the housing stock in the UK is reported to contribute 18% of the total carbon emissions. The UK is required to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. As 80% of the housing stock of 2050 is already built, retrofitting the existing housin... Read More about How artificial intelligence will change the housing retrofit process.

The Pearly Gates: A collection of science fiction short stories (2023)
Book
Panakaduwa Gamage, C. (2023). The Pearly Gates: A collection of science fiction short stories

When Saint Peter passes through the pearly gates, he is confronted with a profound dilemma. By the year 2100, Earth stands on the brink of extinction, and humanity as a whole seeks admission to heaven. However, in accordance with the admission criter... Read More about The Pearly Gates: A collection of science fiction short stories.