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).
Dr Paul Coates' Outputs (48)
Analysis of Procurement Routes and Contract Types for Housing Retrofit in the United Kingdom (2025)
Journal Article
The study focused on the procurement routes and the forms of contract, currently used in the UK housing retrofit industry. Importantly, the contracts between the clients and the contractors were investigated. This study used a qualitative approach wi... Read More about Analysis of Procurement Routes and Contract Types for Housing Retrofit in the United Kingdom.
Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.
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 KingdomThe 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, PortugalHuman-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.
Comparative analysis of homeowner decision-support systems for housing retrofit in the UK (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Housing retrofit in the UK has become critically important in the UK due to several reasons such as poor health & comfort, carbon emissions and fuel poverty. However, the progress of the housing retrofit is observed to be low as there is no proper de... Read More about Comparative analysis of homeowner decision-support systems for housing retrofit in the UK.
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.2024.114226The 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.
How artificial intelligence will change the housing retrofit process (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The operation of the housing stock in the UK is reported to contribute 18% of the total carbon emissions. The UK is required to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. As 80% of the housing stock of 2050 is already built, retrofitting the existing housin... Read More about How artificial intelligence will change the housing retrofit process.
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.2023.108049Viewing 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.
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, ChinaThe 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/app13106089Effective 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”.
Resilience in Research and Practice : Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference (IPGRC 2022) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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/buildings13020452Abstract: 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.
Development of a framework to support embedding BIM within undergraduate architectural programmes in Lebanon (2021)
Thesis
Rachid, A. Development of a framework to support embedding BIM within undergraduate architectural programmes in Lebanon. (Thesis). University of SalfordThe increasing needs and demands of humans have at all times been translated into changes and evolution. And with the rise of huge and complex projects, the AEC industry has adopted systems and technologies that promote the fast delivery of the marke... Read More about Development of a framework to support embedding BIM within undergraduate architectural programmes in Lebanon.
A conceptual framework for sharing knowledge and information between facility management/operations and building design teams (2021)
Thesis
Long, P. A conceptual framework for sharing knowledge and information between facility management/operations and building design teams. (Thesis). University of SalfordIt is generally accepted that decisions made in early design phases significantly impact the quality of a built project. However, much of the information necessary to assess the validity of early design decisions is not available until later in a pro... Read More about A conceptual framework for sharing knowledge and information between facility management/operations and building design teams.
A framework to enhance the adoption of building information modelling amongst Sri Lankan quantity surveying organisations to increase the accuracy of pre-tender cost estimates (2021)
Thesis
Rathnayake, A. A framework to enhance the adoption of building information modelling amongst Sri Lankan quantity surveying organisations to increase the accuracy of pre-tender cost estimates. (Thesis). University of SalfordFor decades, construction projects around the globe have been suffered to complete on budget due to ongoing cost overruns. Accordingly, both developed and developing countries have reported a number of construction projects that have resulted in incr... Read More about A framework to enhance the adoption of building information modelling amongst Sri Lankan quantity surveying organisations to increase the accuracy of pre-tender cost estimates.