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Authenticity and Negativism. Social Value in UK Construction (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Watts, G. (2024). Authenticity and Negativism. Social Value in UK Construction.

Social value engagement in UK construction procurement provides contractors with a competitive edge. Arguably this serves to force contractor social value action. Whilst this is seemingly of benefit to the social value agenda and wider societal needs... Read More about Authenticity and Negativism. Social Value in UK Construction.

Quantifying the Social Value of the UK Construction Industry (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Watts, G., Khan, W., & Maleki Sadabad, M. (2024). Quantifying the Social Value of the UK Construction Industry.

Since the introduction of the Social Value Act in 2012, a focus on time, cost, and quality is no longer sufficient to guarantee procurement success. However, to only communicate social value achievements as part of tender submissions may be viewed su... Read More about Quantifying the Social Value of the UK Construction Industry.

Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Panakaduwa, C., Coates, P., & Munir, M. (2024). Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence.

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.

What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Coates, P., Munir, M., & Panakaduwa, C. (2024). What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review.

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.

Gaming the Industrial Revolution. Participatory design with historical data for classroom learning (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Hiriart, J., Litvine, A., & Bowman, N. (in press). Gaming the Industrial Revolution. Participatory design with historical data for classroom learning. . https://doi.org/10.34190/ecgbl.18.1.2712

Industrial Re:evolution is an educational game developed by a collaborative team of educators, historians, game designers, and developers. The game allows students to hypothesise about the underlying causal mechanisms of the Industrial Revolution whi... Read More about Gaming the Industrial Revolution. Participatory design with historical data for classroom learning.

Using Continuous Construction Performance Measurement as a Strategic Tool for Organisational Competitiveness (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Olomu, E., An, M., Kolo, S., & Ogbonda, U. (in press). Using Continuous Construction Performance Measurement as a Strategic Tool for Organisational Competitiveness. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Construction Project Management and Construction Engineering (iCCPMCE-2024)

The current organisational over-reliance on the use of metrics and indicators that are based only on tangible assets, and financial capital, for the measurement of construction performance has proven to be inadequate for the highly complex and dynami... Read More about Using Continuous Construction Performance Measurement as a Strategic Tool for Organisational Competitiveness.

Confidence limits for coherence – toward a better understanding of its use as a diffuse field metric for quantifying the quality of Direct Field Acoustic Noise (DFAN) Testing systems (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Hargreaves, J., & Underwood, M. (2024). Confidence limits for coherence – toward a better understanding of its use as a diffuse field metric for quantifying the quality of Direct Field Acoustic Noise (DFAN) Testing systems.

To determine the degree of diffuseness of a particular acoustic field, an oft-considered metric is the coherence between spaced pairs of measurement microphones. This is useful because the expected theoretical ‘sinc2’ trend for a diffuse field is wel... Read More about Confidence limits for coherence – toward a better understanding of its use as a diffuse field metric for quantifying the quality of Direct Field Acoustic Noise (DFAN) Testing systems.

Optimising Visual User Interfaces to Reduce Cognitive Fatigue and Enhance Mental Well-being (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Panakaduwa, C., Coates, P., Munir, M., & De Silva, O. (in press). Optimising Visual User Interfaces to Reduce Cognitive Fatigue and Enhance Mental Well-being.

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.

Digital Transformation for Sustainability: Industry 5.0 in UK SMEs (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Rashed Khan, M., Business School, S., & of Salforfd, U. (2024). Digital Transformation for Sustainability: Industry 5.0 in UK SMEs. . https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1005516

In the era of Industry 5.0, digital transformation presents a critical opportunity for UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to enhance sustainability while driving business growth. This paper will explore how SMEs can leverage advanced techno... Read More about Digital Transformation for Sustainability: Industry 5.0 in UK SMEs.

A Novel Approach for Solving the Time-Varying Complex-Valued Linear Matrix Inequality Based on Fuzzy-Parameter Zeroing Neural Network (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Luo, J., Li, J., Holderbaum, W., & Li, J. (2024). A Novel Approach for Solving the Time-Varying Complex-Valued Linear Matrix Inequality Based on Fuzzy-Parameter Zeroing Neural Network. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) (543-548). https://doi.org/10.1109/cis-ram61939.2024.10672985

Solving linear matrix inequality (LMI) is crucial across diverse fields, and the emergence of zeroing neural networks (ZNN) presents a novel solution for the time-varying LMI (TV-LMI) challenge. However, the application of ZNN to solve the time-varyi... Read More about A Novel Approach for Solving the Time-Varying Complex-Valued Linear Matrix Inequality Based on Fuzzy-Parameter Zeroing Neural Network.

Approaches for Enhancement of Perception Through Snsor Design for Extreme Environment (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Li, J., Li, N., Holderbaum, W., & Yao, W. (2024). Approaches for Enhancement of Perception Through Snsor Design for Extreme Environment. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) (531-536). https://doi.org/10.1109/cis-ram61939.2024.10672968

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in extreme environments, is crucial for addressing complex challenges and performing high risk tasks. We highlight the importance of multi-modal sensor redundancy to ensure system reliabili... Read More about Approaches for Enhancement of Perception Through Snsor Design for Extreme Environment.

Looking at AI Fairness from a Marketing Lenz: The Influence of Ethnicity on Facial Expression Recognition based on expert judgement and AI models (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Mansouri, T. (2024). Looking at AI Fairness from a Marketing Lenz: The Influence of Ethnicity on Facial Expression Recognition based on expert judgement and AI models. In ACADEMY OF MARKETING CONFERENCE 2024 PAPER PROCEEDING (56-57)

This research investigates the influence of ethnicity on facial expression perception using insights from marketing experts and Computer Vision techniques. Marketing professionals were highly adept at recognizing expressions across varying ethnicitie... Read More about Looking at AI Fairness from a Marketing Lenz: The Influence of Ethnicity on Facial Expression Recognition based on expert judgement and AI models.

Pioneering Net Zero Homes: A Study of Bellway “The Future Home” Simulation Calibration (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Tsang, C., Fitton, R., Hernandez, H. D., Henshaw, G., & Sitmalidis, A. (2024). Pioneering Net Zero Homes: A Study of Bellway “The Future Home” Simulation Calibration.

This paper demonstrates how Bellway's "The Future Home (TFH)" project contributes to the decarbonisation of UK housing stock, providing valuable insight into building net zero homes. A dynamic simulation model was initially created using design U-val... Read More about Pioneering Net Zero Homes: A Study of Bellway “The Future Home” Simulation Calibration.

The conceptualisation of the ethnic person: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of how race and ethnicity are constructed in the literature of digital psychotherapies for depression (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Rodríguez-Dorans, E., Omylinska-Thurston, J., Liverpool, S., Viliardos, L., & Karkou, V. (2024). The conceptualisation of the ethnic person: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of how race and ethnicity are constructed in the literature of digital psychotherapies for depression.

Race and ethnicity constitute demographic data often collected in mental health research. However, their conceptualisation is unclear and their categorisation inconsistent, which affects how they are reported, analysed, and evaluated against research... Read More about The conceptualisation of the ethnic person: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of how race and ethnicity are constructed in the literature of digital psychotherapies for depression.

Triaxial test of hydrated lime on the mechanical properties of hot mix asphalt concrete (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Al Ashaibi, A., Wang, Y., Albayati, A., Weekes, L., & Haynes, J. (2024). Triaxial test of hydrated lime on the mechanical properties of hot mix asphalt concrete.

This paper reports on the experimental study, which conducted a series of triaxial tests for the asphalt concrete using hydrated lime as a mineral additive. Three HMA mixes, prepared by the specification for wearing, levelling and base layers, were s... Read More about Triaxial test of hydrated lime on the mechanical properties of hot mix asphalt concrete.

Assessing Building Performance in A Low Carbon Home: A comparative study of the energy modelling representing design and as-built phase (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Zhang, X., Fitton, R., Diaz Hernandez, H., Henshaw, G., Sitmalidis, A., Tsang, C., & Swan, W. (in press). Assessing Building Performance in A Low Carbon Home: A comparative study of the energy modelling representing design and as-built phase.

Buildings, as the second-largest carbon emitter, play a significant role in decarbonising efforts to achieve net zero in the UK. The proposed Future Homes Standard aims to ensure a 75-80% reduction in carbon emissions by increasing the building energ... Read More about Assessing Building Performance in A Low Carbon Home: A comparative study of the energy modelling representing design and as-built phase.

Equilibrium-based Approach To Establish Hinge Locations In Single-span Back-filled Masonry Arch Bridges Under Arbitrary Surcharge (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Ahmad, S., & Augusthus Nelson, L. (in press). Equilibrium-based Approach To Establish Hinge Locations In Single-span Back-filled Masonry Arch Bridges Under Arbitrary Surcharge.

The assessment of masonry arches has gained significant importance due to the substantial reliance of transportation infrastructure on historic structures. Over the past few decades, there has been a discernible shift in the focus towards understandi... Read More about Equilibrium-based Approach To Establish Hinge Locations In Single-span Back-filled Masonry Arch Bridges Under Arbitrary Surcharge.