All Outputs (22)

Knowledge sharing through scenario development: Experiences of an interdisciplinary and international research project (2024)
Journal Article
Pößneck, J., Kabisch, S., Kowaltowski, D. C. C. K., van Oel, C. J., Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Koolwijk, J. S. J. (2024). Knowledge sharing through scenario development: Experiences of an interdisciplinary and international research project. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1177/03080188241291828

This paper discusses knowledge sharing through scenario development as applied in the interdisciplinary and international research project uVITAL. It focused on user-oriented upgrading of the social housing stock. The aim was to gain deeper insights... Read More about Knowledge sharing through scenario development: Experiences of an interdisciplinary and international research project.

Living labs for user empowerment and value delivery in social housing upgrading processes (2024)
Journal Article
C. C. K. Kowaltowski, D., Gomes da Silva, V., van Oel, C., Denis Granja, A., Muianga, E., Kabisch, S., …Freeke, A. (2024). Living labs for user empowerment and value delivery in social housing upgrading processes. Habitat International, 145, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103019

Upgrading existing social housing (SH) requires user-centred participatory processes to promote values. Comparative case studies in Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK are presented. Living Labs (LLs) were conducted for the delivery of user... Read More about Living labs for user empowerment and value delivery in social housing upgrading processes.

Managing User Requirements in Social Housing Upgrading (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Awwal, S., Tzortzopoulos, P., Kagioglou, M., & Soliman-Junior, J. (2023). Managing User Requirements in Social Housing Upgrading. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (1072-1081). https://doi.org/10.24928/2023/0167

User requirement management is essential to improve value generation in construction projects. Requirements management is also vital in the context of social housing upgrading/retrofit projects, as such projects generally involve a poor consideration... Read More about Managing User Requirements in Social Housing Upgrading.

Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab: Methodological Approach (2022)
Journal Article
Awwal, S., Soliman-Junior, J., Ayo-Adejuyigbe, M., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2022). Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab: Methodological Approach. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1101(5), https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/5/052020

Social Housing Retrofit offers positive social, financial and health improvements for low-income populations. However, the stakeholders in such projects might have conflicting needs and interests, thus hampering the retrofitting process. Living labs... Read More about Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab: Methodological Approach.

Stakeholders’ Perception in Early Stages of a Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab (2022)
Journal Article
Soliman-Junior, J., Awwal, S., Ayo-Adejuyigbe, M., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2022). Stakeholders’ Perception in Early Stages of a Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1101(5), Article 052020. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/5/052025

Living Labs (LLs) are social and dynamic environments that allow the development of innovative solutions through intense collaboration and co-creation. In social housing (SH), retrofit initiatives usually consist of top-down approaches, with resident... Read More about Stakeholders’ Perception in Early Stages of a Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab.

Automated Regulatory Compliance towards Quality Assurance in Healthcare Building Projects (2022)
Journal Article
Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2022). Automated Regulatory Compliance towards Quality Assurance in Healthcare Building Projects. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1101(8), https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/8/082012

Healthcare building projects are severely constrained by their associated regulatory frameworks. In this context, regulatory requirements define a basic outline upon which design is developed, as well as aid designers towards compliance to minimum st... Read More about Automated Regulatory Compliance towards Quality Assurance in Healthcare Building Projects.

Eliciting Requirements in Social Housing Retrofit Projects (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Soliman-Junior, J., Awwal, S., Tzortzopoulos, P., Ayo-Adejuyigbe, M., & Kagioglou, M. (2022). Eliciting Requirements in Social Housing Retrofit Projects. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (468-479). https://doi.org/10.24928/2022/0152

Requirements’ elicitation is a critical step in construction projects as it affects design development, construction, and ultimately, impacts on value generation. In social housing retrofit projects it becomes especially relevant due to the improveme... Read More about Eliciting Requirements in Social Housing Retrofit Projects.

Living Labs in Social Housing upgrades: Process, Challenges and Recommendations (2022)
Journal Article
Engler Bridi, M., Soliman-Junior, J., Denis Granja, A., Tzortzopoulos, P., Gomes da Silva, V., & Kowaltowski, D. (2022). Living Labs in Social Housing upgrades: Process, Challenges and Recommendations. Sustainability, 14(5), https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052595

Social housing (SH) upgrades involve multiple stakeholders with sometimes divergent requirements and needs. Collaboration and participative processes are essential to ensuring an appropriate value for users is delivered through social housing upgrade... Read More about Living Labs in Social Housing upgrades: Process, Challenges and Recommendations.

Designers’ perspective on the use of automation to support regulatory compliance in healthcare building projects (2022)
Journal Article
Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2022). Designers’ perspective on the use of automation to support regulatory compliance in healthcare building projects. Construction Management and Economics, 40(2), 123-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2021.2022176

Automation has been long explored to improve regulatory compliance during building design. Despite substantial research efforts on developing means to enable this process, there has been limited success in practical implementations. Designers’ inputs... Read More about Designers’ perspective on the use of automation to support regulatory compliance in healthcare building projects.

Automated compliance checking in healthcare building design (2021)
Journal Article
Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., Parise Baldauf, J., Pedo, B., Kagioglou, M., T. Formoso, C., & S. Humphreys, J. (2021). Automated compliance checking in healthcare building design. Automation in Construction, 129, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103822

Regulatory frameworks associated to building design are usually complex, representing extensive sets of requirements. For healthcare projects in the UK, this includes statutory and guidance documents. Existing research indicates that they contain sub... Read More about Automated compliance checking in healthcare building design.

Strengthening Target Value Design Benefits in Real Estate Market Through Living Labs (2021)
Conference Proceeding
A. Oliva, C., Denis Granja, A., Engler Bridi, M., Soliman-Junior, J., Ayo-Adejuyigbe, M., & Tzortzopoulos, P. (2021). Strengthening Target Value Design Benefits in Real Estate Market Through Living Labs. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (634-643). https://doi.org/10.24928/2021/0202

The Target Value Design (TVD) is a collaborative process where value drives the design process to achieve the client’s expectations while maintaining the costs and schedule under control. Its application has been successful in several construction pr... Read More about Strengthening Target Value Design Benefits in Real Estate Market Through Living Labs.

Living Labs in a Lean Perspective (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Soliman-Junior, J., Awwal, S., Engler Bridi, M., Tzortzopoulos, P., Denis Granja, A., Koskela, L., & Gomes, D. (2021). Living Labs in a Lean Perspective. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (484-493). https://doi.org/10.24928/2021/0176

Living Labs (LLs) consist of social and dynamic environments that enable end-users and stakeholders to collaborate towards an innovation. This paper presents the concept of LLs and analysis on how it can foster communication and collaboration from a... Read More about Living Labs in a Lean Perspective.

Regulation checking during facility design (2021)
Other
Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2021). Regulation checking during facility design

This article presents a short overview of research outcomes that will be of benefit to practitioners in dealing with checking healthcare designs regulatory compliance and how compliance checking could be automated during the design process.

Improving healthcare design with BIM-based tools (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Soliman-Junior, J., Parise Baldauf, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., kagioglou, M., S. Humphreys, J., & T. Formoso, C. (2020). Improving healthcare design with BIM-based tools. . https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/588/3/032003

It is well known that the quality of healthcare facilities can contribute to health and wellbeing. Healthcare design is complex due to the large amount of information involved, with sometimes conflicting requirements which evolve over time. Therefore... Read More about Improving healthcare design with BIM-based tools.

The Relationship Between Requirements Subjectivity and Semantics for Healthcare Design Support Systems (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Soliman-Junior, J., Pedo, B., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2020). The Relationship Between Requirements Subjectivity and Semantics for Healthcare Design Support Systems. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51295-8_55

Subjectivity exists in requirements described in the healthcare regulatory framework. This is mainly due to the nature of regulatory requirements and the uniqueness of the design process. Past research identified that subjectivity in regulations is a... Read More about The Relationship Between Requirements Subjectivity and Semantics for Healthcare Design Support Systems.

Exploring Mistakeproofing in Healthcare Design (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2020). Exploring Mistakeproofing in Healthcare Design. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC28) (193-204). https://doi.org/10.24928/2020/0034

The process of verifying the compliance of design solutions to regulations is critical in healthcare design due to the complexity of the requirements present in healthcare settings. The majority of previews research concentrates on “mistake-searching... Read More about Exploring Mistakeproofing in Healthcare Design.

Using Building Information Modelling to Manage Client Requirements in Social Housing Projects (2020)
Journal Article
P. Baldauf, J., T. Formoso, C., Tzortzopoulos, P., I. G. Miron, L., & Soliman-Junior, J. (2020). Using Building Information Modelling to Manage Client Requirements in Social Housing Projects. Sustainability, 12(7), https://doi.org/10.3390/su12072804

This paper proposes a set of guidelines for using Building Information Modelling (BIM) to manage client requirements in the context of social housing projects. A process model representing main activities involved in requirements management has been... Read More about Using Building Information Modelling to Manage Client Requirements in Social Housing Projects.

A Semantic-based Framework for Automated Rule Checking in Healthcare Construction Projects (2019)
Journal Article
Soliman-Junior, J., Torres Formoso, C., & Tzortzopoulos, P. (2020). A Semantic-based Framework for Automated Rule Checking in Healthcare Construction Projects. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 47(2), 202-214. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2018-0460

Healthcare projects are known for having a high degree of complexity. Furthermore, the design of healthcare facilities is highly constrained by regulations containing a wide range of requirements. Using BIM for automated rule checking has been pointe... Read More about A Semantic-based Framework for Automated Rule Checking in Healthcare Construction Projects.

The Role of Building Information Modelling on Assessing Healthcare Design (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Soliman-Junior, J., Parise Baldauf, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., T. Formoso, C., & kagioglou, M. (2019). The Role of Building Information Modelling on Assessing Healthcare Design.

The design of healthcare projects is complex and presents a number of difficulties related to requirements management, e.g. conflicting requirements by stakeholders and changes of requirements over time. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been... Read More about The Role of Building Information Modelling on Assessing Healthcare Design.

Evaluating Social Housing Retrofit Options to Support Clients’ Decision Making—SIMPLER BIM Protocol (2019)
Journal Article
Tzortzopoulos, P., Ma, L., Soliman Junior, J., & Koskela, L. (2019). Evaluating Social Housing Retrofit Options to Support Clients’ Decision Making—SIMPLER BIM Protocol. Sustainability, 11(9), Article 1-21. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11092507

The UK government made significant commitments to upgrading the energy efficiency of seven million British homes by 2020, aiming at reducing carbon emissions and addressing fuel poverty. One alternative to achieve better energy performance in existin... Read More about Evaluating Social Housing Retrofit Options to Support Clients’ Decision Making—SIMPLER BIM Protocol.