Outputs (6)

Stakeholders’ Perception in Early Stages of a Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab (2022)
Journal Article
Soliman-Junior, J., Awwal, S., Ayo-Adejuyigbe, M., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2022). Stakeholders’ Perception in Early Stages of a Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1101(5), Article 052020. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/5/052025

Living Labs (LLs) are social and dynamic environments that allow the development of innovative solutions through intense collaboration and co-creation. In social housing (SH), retrofit initiatives usually consist of top-down approaches, with resident... Read More about Stakeholders’ Perception in Early Stages of a Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab.

Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab: Methodological Approach (2022)
Journal Article
Awwal, S., Soliman-Junior, J., Ayo-Adejuyigbe, M., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2022). Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab: Methodological Approach. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1101(5), https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/5/052020

Social Housing Retrofit offers positive social, financial and health improvements for low-income populations. However, the stakeholders in such projects might have conflicting needs and interests, thus hampering the retrofitting process. Living labs... Read More about Social Housing Retrofit Living Lab: Methodological Approach.

Automated Regulatory Compliance towards Quality Assurance in Healthcare Building Projects (2022)
Journal Article
Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2022). Automated Regulatory Compliance towards Quality Assurance in Healthcare Building Projects. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1101(8), https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/8/082012

Healthcare building projects are severely constrained by their associated regulatory frameworks. In this context, regulatory requirements define a basic outline upon which design is developed, as well as aid designers towards compliance to minimum st... Read More about Automated Regulatory Compliance towards Quality Assurance in Healthcare Building Projects.

Designers’ perspective on the use of automation to support regulatory compliance in healthcare building projects (2022)
Journal Article
Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2022). Designers’ perspective on the use of automation to support regulatory compliance in healthcare building projects. Construction Management and Economics, 40(2), 123-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2021.2022176

Automation has been long explored to improve regulatory compliance during building design. Despite substantial research efforts on developing means to enable this process, there has been limited success in practical implementations. Designers’ inputs... Read More about Designers’ perspective on the use of automation to support regulatory compliance in healthcare building projects.

A Semantic-based Framework for Automated Rule Checking in Healthcare Construction Projects (2019)
Journal Article
Soliman-Junior, J., Torres Formoso, C., & Tzortzopoulos, P. (2020). A Semantic-based Framework for Automated Rule Checking in Healthcare Construction Projects. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 47(2), 202-214. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2018-0460

Healthcare projects are known for having a high degree of complexity. Furthermore, the design of healthcare facilities is highly constrained by regulations containing a wide range of requirements. Using BIM for automated rule checking has been pointe... Read More about A Semantic-based Framework for Automated Rule Checking in Healthcare Construction Projects.

Evaluating Social Housing Retrofit Options to Support Clients’ Decision Making—SIMPLER BIM Protocol (2019)
Journal Article
Tzortzopoulos, P., Ma, L., Soliman Junior, J., & Koskela, L. (2019). Evaluating Social Housing Retrofit Options to Support Clients’ Decision Making—SIMPLER BIM Protocol. Sustainability, 11(9), Article 1-21. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11092507

The UK government made significant commitments to upgrading the energy efficiency of seven million British homes by 2020, aiming at reducing carbon emissions and addressing fuel poverty. One alternative to achieve better energy performance in existin... Read More about Evaluating Social Housing Retrofit Options to Support Clients’ Decision Making—SIMPLER BIM Protocol.