Untangling creativity and art for policy purposes : ethnographic insights on Manchester International Festival and Manchester Day Parade (2016)
Journal Article
Symons, J. (2018). Untangling creativity and art for policy purposes : ethnographic insights on Manchester International Festival and Manchester Day Parade. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(2), 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2016.1150268

This paper draws on anthropological fieldwork of a civic parade in Manchester
from 2010 to 2012 to argue for engaging with creativity as a process rather
than an attribute of a particular sector or individual. It shows how the focus on
funding and... Read More about Untangling creativity and art for policy purposes : ethnographic insights on Manchester International Festival and Manchester Day Parade.

The variability of UK domestic energy assessments (2016)
Journal Article
Gledhill, T., Kempton, J., Swan, W., & Fitton, R. (2016). The variability of UK domestic energy assessments. Journal of Building Survey, Appraisal and Valuation, 4(4), 264-279

The 2008 Climate Change Act has committed the UK to reduce carbon emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 from 1990 levels. Key to achieving this is a focus on reducing carbon emissions in residential property, where more than a quarter of the nation's carb... Read More about The variability of UK domestic energy assessments.

Competency mapping framework for regulating professionally oriented degree programmes in higher education (2016)
Journal Article
Perera, S., Babatunde, S., Zhou, L., Pearson, J., & Ekundayo, D. (2017). Competency mapping framework for regulating professionally oriented degree programmes in higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 42(12), 2316-2342. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2016.1143926

Recognition of the huge variation between professional graduate degree programmes and employer requirements, especially in the construction industry, necessitated a need for assessing and developing competencies that aligned with professionally orien... Read More about Competency mapping framework for regulating professionally oriented degree programmes in higher education.

An evaluation of property valuation practice in Sub-Saharan Africa : a case study of Ghana (2016)
Other
Gyau, K., Proverbs, D., Lamond, J., & Gyamfi Yeboah, F. (2016). An evaluation of property valuation practice in Sub-Saharan Africa : a case study of Ghana

The role of contracting strategies in social value implementation (2016)
Journal Article
Awuzie, B., & McDermott, P. (2016). The role of contracting strategies in social value implementation. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 169(3), 106-114. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmapl.15.00024

There has been an increasing demand for social value (SV) implementation to assume a cardinal position in the infrastructure delivery efforts of infrastructure client organisations (ICOs). However, whereas successful implementation has been recorded... Read More about The role of contracting strategies in social value implementation.

Design for safety : safety consideration in planning and design of airport airsides (2016)
Journal Article
Al-Saadi, M., & An, M. (2016). Design for safety : safety consideration in planning and design of airport airsides. International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 10(4), 448-460. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1112129

During airport planning and design stages, the major issues of capacity and safety in construction and operation of an airport need to be taken into consideration. The airside of an airport is a major and critical infrastructure that usually consists... Read More about Design for safety : safety consideration in planning and design of airport airsides.

Micrometeorological simulations to predict the impacts of heat mitigation strategies on pedestrian thermal comfort in a Los Angeles neighborhood (2016)
Journal Article
Taleghani, M., Sailor, D., & Ban-Weiss, G. (2016). Micrometeorological simulations to predict the impacts of heat mitigation strategies on pedestrian thermal comfort in a Los Angeles neighborhood. Environmental Research Letters, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024003

The urban heat island impacts the thermal comfort of pedestrians in cities. In this paper, the effects of four heat mitigation strategies on micrometeorology and the thermal comfort of pedestrians were simulated for a neighborhood in eastern Los Ange... Read More about Micrometeorological simulations to predict the impacts of heat mitigation strategies on pedestrian thermal comfort in a Los Angeles neighborhood.

Military aircrafts' classification based on their sound signature (2016)
Journal Article
Barbarosou, M., Paraskevas, I., & Ahmed, A. (2016). Military aircrafts' classification based on their sound signature. Aircraft engineering, 88(1), 66-72. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEAT-04-2014-0040

Purpose: This paper aims to present a system framework for classifying different models of military aircrafts, which is based on the sound they produce.

Design/methodology/approach: The technique is based on extracting a compact feature set, of... Read More about Military aircrafts' classification based on their sound signature.

Lean and BIM – a synergistic relationship (2016)
Journal Article
Aziz, Z., & Tezel, B. (2016). Lean and BIM – a synergistic relationship. UK construction magazine, 40

The relationship between organisational culture and knowledge sharing in the information communication technology firms in Libya (2016)
Thesis
Allali, B. The relationship between organisational culture and knowledge sharing in the information communication technology firms in Libya. (Thesis). University of Salford

Examining the nature of the relationship between Organisational Culture (OC) and Knowledge Sharing (KS) has been the concern of a number of academic studies. Most of these studies have suggested that different aspects of Organisational Culture have a... Read More about The relationship between organisational culture and knowledge sharing in the information communication technology firms in Libya.

Urban-promogiovani un punto di vista giovane e innovativo sul progetto urbano (2016)
Other
Mello, D., & Trillo, C. (2016). Urban-promogiovani un punto di vista giovane e innovativo sul progetto urbano

Il futuro della qualità progettuale delle nostre città è nelle mani
dei progettisti di domani. Cosa succede oggi nei luoghi dove ci si
prepara a queste sfide, cosa si discute, con cosa ci si cimenta?
Il testo risponde a queste domande attraverso u... Read More about Urban-promogiovani un punto di vista giovane e innovativo sul progetto urbano.

Advantages and limitations of community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects (2016)
Journal Article
Ophiyandri, T., Amaratunga, D., & Keraminiyage, K. (2016). Advantages and limitations of community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 7(4), 420-431. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-08-2014-0066

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the advantages and limitations of the implementation of a community-based method in post-disaster housing reconstruction.


Design/methodology/approach


The research was based on multipl... Read More about Advantages and limitations of community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects.

BIM adoption within Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) : an innovation diffusion model (2016)
Journal Article
Hosseini, M., Banihashemi, S., Chileshe, N., Namzadi, M., Udeaja, C., Rameezdeen, R., & McCuen, T. (2016). BIM adoption within Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) : an innovation diffusion model. Construction Economics and Building, 16(3), 71-86. https://doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v16i3.5159

Despite the envisaged benefits of BIM adoption for SMEs, BIM in SMEs has remained an underrepresented area within the available academic literature. This study proposes and draws upon a framework grounded on innovation diffusion theory (IDT) to provi... Read More about BIM adoption within Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) : an innovation diffusion model.

A comparative study of construction cost and commercial management services in the UK and China (2016)
Report
Zhou, L., Udeaja, C., Victoria, M., & Chen, Q. (2016). A comparative study of construction cost and commercial management services in the UK and China

Cost and commercial management processes and practices in different parts of the world vary significantly. In the UK and the British Commonwealth these practices are mainly market oriented and matured over several centuries. The effects of globalisa... Read More about A comparative study of construction cost and commercial management services in the UK and China.