Prof Terrence Fernando's Outputs (81)

Transformation towards risk-sensitive urban development : a systematic review of the issues and challenges (2021)
Journal Article

Risk-sensitive urban development is an innovative planning approach that can transform the way cities are built to face uncertainties that arise from climate-induced disaster risks. However, the potential to initiate such a transformative approach ha... Read More about Transformation towards risk-sensitive urban development : a systematic review of the issues and challenges.

Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., Fernando, T., & Keraminiyage, K. (2021). Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis. Sustainability, 13(16), e8992. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168992

Despite the fact that vulnerable communities are the most affected by unplanned cities, considerably less attention has been given to involving them in urban development in order to ensure equitable outcomes. In this regard, there is an urgent need f... Read More about Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis.

Challenges in multi-agency collaboration in disaster management : a Sri Lankan perspective (2021)
Journal Article

This study was aimed at investigating the current challenges prevailing in relation to multi-agency collaboration during disaster management and at the strategies that should be implemented in order to overcome such challenges. The study was based on... Read More about Challenges in multi-agency collaboration in disaster management : a Sri Lankan perspective.

Measuring community disaster resilience at local levels : an adaptable resilience framework (2021)
Journal Article

Decision makers, practitioners and community members need to assess the disaster resilience of their communities and to understand better the risks they face from natural hazards. There is a lack of consensus on what resilience means and how it can b... Read More about Measuring community disaster resilience at local levels : an adaptable resilience framework.

A review of post-study and post-task subjective questionnaires to guide assessment of system usability (2021)
Journal Article

Usability is a key consideration when developing an interactive software application because of the various outcomes it can produce. Accordingly, numerous evaluation methods have been proposed, however, a recent review of usability methods concluded... Read More about A review of post-study and post-task subjective questionnaires to guide assessment of system usability.

A systematic review to establish a definition for natural disaster preparedness (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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

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.

Geospatial dashboards for mapping and tracking of novel Coronavirus pandemic (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In mid of December 2019, Wuhan sea food, China a new mysterious illness was reported lately called Coronavirus
(COVID-19, The virus triggered a severe respiratory disease, rapidly speeded to many other states of China and
around the world. COVID-19... Read More about Geospatial dashboards for mapping and tracking of novel Coronavirus pandemic.

Factors influencing acceptance or rejection regarding being the host community for post-disaster resettlements in developing countries (2020)
Journal Article

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

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.

Multi-agency collaboration in flood disaster management in sarawak Malaysia (2019)
Journal Article

In reducing the impact of current and future disasters so as to form a resilient future, disaster management deserves highest priority and plays a vital role in managing the risk of disaster. However, it cannot be addressed or undertaken by the gover... Read More about Multi-agency collaboration in flood disaster management in sarawak Malaysia.

Collaborative virtual reality platform for visualizing space data and mission planning (2019)
Journal Article

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

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

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.