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Thermal Imaging in Building Diagnostics: A Systematic Review of Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Thermal imaging, or infrared thermography, has become an indispensable tool in the building sector for non-invasive energy efficiency assessments, particularly for detecting heat loss, thermal bridging, and insulation defects. This paper presents a s... Read More about Thermal Imaging in Building Diagnostics: A Systematic Review of Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities.

Overcoming the Long-Term Barriers to Digital Twinning Usage in the UK Construction Industry (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Adopting Digital Twinning (DT) technology will help the construction industry unlock a wealth of economical, environmental, and societal benefits. These have been outlined in the extant literature, but all largely focus on the immediate benefits attr... Read More about Overcoming the Long-Term Barriers to Digital Twinning Usage in the UK Construction Industry.

Daylight And View Quality In Offices: Developing Multifactor Evolutionary Simulation Methods to Achieve Occupant Well-Being: A Case Study of Commercial Buildings in Cairo (Egypt) and Salford (England) (2025)
Thesis

Viewing the natural environment from inside homes and workplaces has been recognised by a range of scholars as having an impact on improving health and well-being. Research has shown that a combination of outdoor elements – such as blue sky, sea view... Read More about Daylight And View Quality In Offices: Developing Multifactor Evolutionary Simulation Methods to Achieve Occupant Well-Being: A Case Study of Commercial Buildings in Cairo (Egypt) and Salford (England).

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)
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.

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.

Visible outside view as a facilitation tool to evaluate view quality and shading systems through building openings (2023)
Journal Article
Abdelrahman, M., Coates, P., & Poppelreuter, T. (2023). Visible outside view as a facilitation tool to evaluate view quality and shading systems through building openings. Journal of Building Engineering, 80, 42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.108049

Viewing the natural environment from inside homes and workplaces has been recognized by a range of scholars as having an impact on improving health and well-being. Research has shown that a combination of outdoor elements – such as blue sky, sea view... Read More about Visible outside view as a facilitation tool to evaluate view quality and shading systems through building openings.

Development of a methodology for the performance improvement of Nigerian office buildings considering bioclimatic design perspectives (2023)
Thesis

There is a need to improve the environmental performance of Nigeria’s office buildings due to
new expectations, and the current challenges including energy shortage, increasing
population, changing user needs, and climate change. While several Nige... Read More about Development of a methodology for the performance improvement of Nigerian office buildings considering bioclimatic design perspectives.

Assessment Of Daylighting View And Air Quality Requirements An Integrated Approach For Healthy Buildings (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Ogbonda, U., Mansour Abdelrahman1, M. S., & Coates, P. (2023, July). Assessment Of Daylighting View And Air Quality Requirements An Integrated Approach For Healthy Buildings. Paper presented at Healthy Buildings 2023 Asia and Pacific Rim, Tianjin, China

The improvement of wellbeing, ensuring healthy lives for all ages, is enshrined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 3 & 11 as a focus to help transform our world and general human and environmental wellbeing. Factors affecting occupan... Read More about Assessment Of Daylighting View And Air Quality Requirements An Integrated Approach For Healthy Buildings.

Special Issue “BIM Implementation to Meet the Changing Demands of the Construction Industry” (2023)
Journal Article
Coates, S. P. (2023). Special Issue “BIM Implementation to Meet the Changing Demands of the Construction Industry”. Applied Sciences, 13(10), 6089. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13106089

Effective Building Information Modelling implementation continues to evolve, aligning itself to the changing needs of the construction industry. These activities can be considered from a range of perspectives. We can adopt a people-centric, process c... Read More about Special Issue “BIM Implementation to Meet the Changing Demands of the Construction Industry”.