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Barriers to MNEs green business models in the UK construction sector: An ISM analysis
(Article)The environmental and economic benefits of green business models (GBMs) are considerable if current barriers can be identified and ways of overcoming them developed. In this study, barriers to GBMs are identified by ... -
Borders of Precincts: Unpacking the Politics of White Neighbourhood Identities in the Post‐Apartheid Black City (Johannesburg)
(Book chapter)The relationship between a middle income white precinct in Melville and the post-apartheid predominantly black city of Johannesburg are still seen as separate entities. This poses a threat to the democratic production of ... -
Bosworth Battlefield Digital Landscape Project – An Interactive Wide Area Digital Model and Digital Heritage Framework
(Working Paper)This report is an outcome of The Bosworth Battlefield Landscape Project, a one year project funded by Arts Council England’s Museum Resilience Fund and administered by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement ... -
Bottle House: Utilising Appreciative Inquiry to develop a user Acceptance model
(Article)This paper develops a novel user-acceptance model for circular solutions to housing design. The model has been systematically developed from a case study of an upcycled plastic bottle building in a low-income community ... -
Bottom-up approach to sustainable urban development in Lebanon: The case of Zouk Mosbeh
(Article)In contrast with the “top-down” approach to development, the dominant methodology in Lebanon, Iemphasize rather the “bottom-up” approach where all stakeholders have equal opportunities to participate in policy formulation ... -
Business model reconfiguration in green construction: A theoretical perspective
(Conference)Business models describe the business logic of a particular company and green business model is when a company changes part(s) of its business model and thereby both captures economic value and reduces the ecological ... -
Celestial Topography, THEKLA
(Image / Image, 3-D)Celetial Topography is a research project and pavilion constructed at 1:1 scale, inspired by the description of a fantasy city ‘Thekla’ in Italo Calvino’s book, invisible cities. The geometry of the pavilion is informed ... -
A cell inspired model of configuration
(Conference)The purpose of this paper is two-fold. It first presents a biosemiotic comprehension of artefact making, on the basis that both design and life are processes of construction. It then presents a computer model to substantiate ... -
Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration
(Technical Report)This report includes not only our designs for the estate’s refurbishment and increase in housing capacity by up to 50 per cent without the demolition of a single existing home, but also our account of why and how these ... -
Community planning and urban design in contested places. Some insights from Belfast
(Article)Although social conflict due to the presence of different groups divided by cultural, religious or ethnic issues plagues many contemporary cities, community and participatory planning methods still pay little attention to ... -
A Comparative Study of Sustainable Urban Forms: Compact City and Short Cycle Strategy
(Article)This paper aims to identify the urban form and design issues that are concerned with the sustainable development of a new settlement. Drawing on the theoretical literature, it recognizes eight key issues to achieve a ... -
Comparison Study of Traditional and Contemporary Islamic Dwelling Design in Hot Climates, with Reference to Benghazi, Libya
(Conference)In Benghazi, Libya, the rising population and increased housing demand has led to high energy consumption in order to provide comfortable conditions. These contemporary dwellings make use of outdoor open spaces and a high ... -
Conceptual Drawings as Explorative Tools: Tracing the Evolution of the Extended and Nuclear Family Houses in Kuwait
(Conference)This paper examines the evolution of the layout and occupancy of family houses in Kuwait, using conceptual drawings as a tool to study, describe and understand their transformations. Through the analysis of the political ... -
A conceptual green business model for construction companies: An empirical evaluation
(Conference)Construction companies are being challenged to adopt a greener approach to meet client needs and to gain or sustain business competiveness with the phenomenon like green market growing. However, the relation between ... -
Conflicting conceptions of domestic space: Shanty towns and state housing in contemporary Argentine cinema
(Article)This article analyses the ways in which two contemporary Argentine films, Villa (Ezio Massa, 2013) and Diagnóstico esperanza (César González, 2013), portray domestic space. It argues that, in different ways, they both ...