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A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context (2023)
Journal Article
Nigerian context. Buildings, 13(2), 452. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020452

Abstract: The need to improve the performance of Nigeria’s office buildings is due to, energy challenges, increasing population, changing user needs, and climate change. With the expansion of several Nigerian cities, existing buildings constitute a... Read More about A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context.

New concepts of post occupancy evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices (2012)
Book Chapter
Coates, S., Arayici, Y., & Ozturk, Z. (2012). New concepts of post occupancy evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (319-329). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27509-8_27

Traditionally Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is conducted against the prescribed performance specification and it mainly relies on two activities; i) The effective collection of real world data and information and ii) the formulation of this data /... Read More about New concepts of post occupancy evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices.

BIM implementation strategy framework for small architectural practices
Thesis
Coates, S. BIM implementation strategy framework for small architectural practices. (Thesis). University of Salford

BIM (Building Information Modeling) is a new radically different emerging approach to design, construction and facilities management. BIM promises to better facilitate the building development, construction and building operation. In this thesis the... Read More about BIM implementation strategy framework for small architectural practices.