All Outputs (30)

Development of an Artefact to Support Homeowner Decision-making for Housing Retrofit (2025)
Thesis

The sustainability in the UK housing sector is not adequate. Housing retrofit is reported to improve the sustainability. The progress of housing retrofit is low. The underlying reason can be suggested as the limited interest of the homeowners to retr... Read More about Development of an Artefact to Support Homeowner Decision-making for Housing Retrofit.

Digital twins in Lean strategic facility management in the UK healthcare sector: A proposed framework to enabling Lean strategic facility management in healthcare operations in the UK (2025)
Thesis

The healthcare sector in the United Kingdom (UK) faces significant challenges in managing its vast estate efficiently and effectively. With rising costs, a substantial maintenance backlog, and increasing patient expectations, there is an urgent need... Read More about Digital twins in Lean strategic facility management in the UK healthcare sector: A proposed framework to enabling Lean strategic facility management in healthcare operations in the UK.

Analysis of Procurement Routes and Contract Types for Housing Retrofit in the United Kingdom (2025)
Journal Article

The study focused on the procurement routes and the forms of contract, currently used in the UK housing retrofit industry. Importantly, the contracts between the clients and the contractors were investigated. This study used a qualitative approach wi... Read More about Analysis of Procurement Routes and Contract Types for Housing Retrofit in the United Kingdom.

What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

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.

Exploring The Missing Role Of Data Dictionaries (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Automation is one of the best ways to realise (achieve) the benefits of digitalization. This requires a flow of information between multiple stakeholders. In this respect, data dictionaries can enable governed and trust-worthy data. The technology fo... Read More about Exploring The Missing Role Of Data Dictionaries.

Optimising Visual User Interfaces to Reduce Cognitive Fatigue and Enhance Mental Well-being (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Considering Human-Centred System Design in Relation to Cognitive and Educational Theories (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Panakaduwa Gamage, C. (2024, June). Considering Human-Centred System Design in Relation to Cognitive and Educational Theories. Paper presented at Smart Digital Futures: KES-HCIS 2024 Conference, Madeira, Portugal

Human-centred system design [HCSD] became a priority in system design when the designers identified the importance of user engagement. This was provided by the adoption of aligned technical sophistications. The concept of HCSD has come a long way sin... Read More about Considering Human-Centred System Design in Relation to Cognitive and Educational Theories.

Evaluation of Government Actions Discouraging Housing Energy Retrofit in the UK: A Critical Review (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 BIM maturity process to the digital twin for lean strategic facility management (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Digital twins are increasingly popular in the built environment for addressing unique challenges through tailored use cases. One such application is in decision support and management for strategic facility management. Employing design science resear... Read More about The BIM maturity process to the digital twin for lean strategic facility management.

Resilience in Research and Practice : Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference (IPGRC 2022) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A Proposed Digital Twin Framework to Enable Lean Strategic Facility Management (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The concept of bringing a strategic approach to facility management is gaining traction as organizations are becoming more cognizant of the strong relationship between the built assets that facility managers are responsible for managing and the organ... Read More about A Proposed Digital Twin Framework to Enable Lean Strategic Facility Management.

A lean strategic FM service model based on the digital twin (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The construction industry is committed to improving whole-life performance and minimising waste in building delivery and operations. The construction industry continues to explore Lean and now the digital twin concept from more productive cross-secto... Read More about A lean strategic FM service model based on the digital twin.

The business value of BIM for asset owners : a cross case analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Munir, M., Kiviniemi, A., Jones, S., & Finnegan, S. (2020). The business value of BIM for asset owners : a cross case analysis. Journal of Facilities Management, 18(5), 469-486. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFM-06-2020-0037

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate and identify the activity systems
that drive Building Information Modelling (BIM) business value in Asset Management
(AM). The utilisation of BIM has widened in scope, functionality, flexibility... Read More about The business value of BIM for asset owners : a cross case analysis.

BIM business value for asset owners : key issues and challenges (2020)
Journal Article
Munir, M., Kiviniemi, A., Jones, S., & Finnegan, S. (2021). BIM business value for asset owners : key issues and challenges. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 39(1), 135-151. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBPA-10-2019-0090

There is a need to develop the understanding of asset owners concerning the constraints of building information modelling (BIM) implementation, and its subsequent value realisation activities in asset management (AM) cannot be overstated. This is bec... Read More about BIM business value for asset owners : key issues and challenges.

BIM-based operational information requirements for asset owners (2020)
Journal Article
Munir, M., Kiviniemi, A., Jones, S., & Finnegan, S. (2020). BIM-based operational information requirements for asset owners. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 16(2), 100-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2019.1706439

It is widely recognised in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry that asset owners do not really understand their information needs for effective BIM-based Asset Management (AM). Hence, they may be unable to develop their oper... Read More about BIM-based operational information requirements for asset owners.