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A systematic review to establish a definition for natural disaster preparedness (2021)
Journal Article
Siriwardhana, S., Kulatunga, U., & Fernando, T. (2021). A systematic review to establish a definition for natural disaster preparedness

Disaster Preparedness (DP) needs to be best viewed from a broad perspective in order to have a sound understanding of its practices, its scope and its impact on the successful implementation of disaster management. However, the DP concept has becom... Read More about A systematic review to establish a definition for natural disaster preparedness.

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.

Measuring community disaster resilience using Q-methods : a physical resilience perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Tariq, H., Pathirage, C., & Fernando, T. (2021). Measuring community disaster resilience using Q-methods : a physical resilience perspective. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 11(4), 722-737. https://doi.org/10.1108/bepam-03-2020-0053

Purpose Decision-makers, practitioners and community members have a need to assess the disaster resilience of their communities and to understand their own capacities in disaster situations. There is a lack of consensus among researchers as to what r... Read More about Measuring community disaster resilience using Q-methods : a physical resilience perspective.

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.

Assessing the state of the art in community engagement for participatory decision-making in disaster risk-sensitive urban development (2020)
Journal Article
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., Fernando, T., & Keraminiyage, K. (2020). Assessing the state of the art in community engagement for participatory decision-making in disaster risk-sensitive urban development. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 51, 101847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101847

Vulnerable communities are often marginalized in the decision-making process in urban development due to barriers to community entry and challenges for community engagement. The state-of-the-art on these constraints' limits to a specific region, stat... Read More about Assessing the state of the art in community engagement for participatory decision-making in disaster risk-sensitive urban development.

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.

Assessing the requirements from ‘BB101’ 2006 and 2018 for a naturally ventilated preparatory school in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Ji, Y., Swan, W., Fitton, R., & Fernando, T. (2018). Assessing the requirements from ‘BB101’ 2006 and 2018 for a naturally ventilated preparatory school in the UK. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 40(5), 638-659. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143624418815785

In the UK, BB101 is the guidance document for ventilation design of school buildings. There are significant changes proposed in the new version of BB101. The aim of this paper is to examine the requirements of thermal comfort and CO2-based indoor a... Read More about Assessing the requirements from ‘BB101’ 2006 and 2018 for a naturally ventilated preparatory school in the UK.

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.

Supporting risk assessment in building resilient cities (2017)
Book Chapter
Fernando, T., & Alzahmi, M. (2017). Supporting risk assessment in building resilient cities. In P. Brandon, P. Lombardi, & G. Shen (Eds.), Future Challenges in Evaluating and Managing Sustainable Development in the Built Environment (155-163). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119190691.ch9

In the past century, the occurrence of natural disasters and man‐made disasters has steadily increased with a significant loss of life, damage to infrastructure and property and destruction of the environment. Therefore creation of resilient cities i... Read More about Supporting risk assessment in building resilient cities.

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.

Energy matching and trading within green building neighbourhoods based on stochastic approach considering uncertainty (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Ghazimirsaeid, S., Fernando, T., & Marzband, M. (2016, September). Energy matching and trading within green building neighbourhoods based on stochastic approach considering uncertainty. Presented at 11th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, Limassol, Cypruse

Non-dispatchable generation resources can be installed as small scale generation units that environmentally and economically could be competitive with conventional power generation. To reach this aim, a hybrid system including several types of... Read More about Energy matching and trading within green building neighbourhoods based on stochastic approach considering uncertainty.

A collaborative environment for energy-efficient buildings within the context of a neighbourhood (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Bassanino, M., Fernando, T., Wu, K., Ghazirmirsaeid, S., Klobut, K., Mäkeläinen, T., & Hukkalainen, M. (2016, September). A collaborative environment for energy-efficient buildings within the context of a neighbourhood. Presented at 11th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, Limassol, Cypruse

This positioning paper explains our approach to creating a collaborative environment to assist multi-disciplinary teams in designing better energy efficient buildings with consideration of their neighborhoods. A scenario-driven approach was used he... Read More about A collaborative environment for energy-efficient buildings within the context of a neighbourhood.

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.

A novel hybrid engineering methodology to enhance collaboration during the design and development of meta product services (2016)
Journal Article
Iram, S., Fernando, T., & Bassanino, M. (2016). A novel hybrid engineering methodology to enhance collaboration during the design and development of meta product services. The future of identity in the information society : 4th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6, 11.6, 11.7/Fidis International Summer School, Brno, Czech Republic, September 1-7, 2008, revised selected papers / Vashek Matyáš ... [et al.] (eds.), 480, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45390-3_33

Since the Product-Service System (PSS) is accompanied by a paradigm shift towards the sustainability of the production process, it demands an advanced level of collaboration throughout the design and development process. This poses new challenges to... Read More about A novel hybrid engineering methodology to enhance collaboration during the design and development of meta product services.