Structural Survey: Volume 34 Issue 3

Stonemasonry skills development: two case studies of historic buildings in Scotland

Scott McGibbon, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab

Scotland’s built heritage (pre-1919 building stock) is exhibiting varying levels of disrepair, in particular for stonemasonry works, despite the government’s on-going efforts for…

BIM performance framework for the maintenance and refurbishment of housing stock

Zaid Alwan

The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic framework for maintenance and refurbishment in domestic housing sector for utilising BIM processes, which tackles ageing…

Factors that influence students’ satisfaction with their physical learning environments

Hannah Kira Wilson, Alison Cotgrave

The purpose of this paper is to identify personality types between different university disciplines, and to establish whether there are differing requirements in the design of…

Proposed methodology for measurement, survey and assessment of vertical deformation of structures

Jonathan Ruiz-Jaramillo, Emilio Mascort-Albea, Antonio Jaramillo-Morilla

Growing awareness of the importance of preserving the built environment has created an increasing demand for experts capable of performing building inspections to ensure a high…

Factors influencing the scope of private party’s obligations in concession-based PPP projects in Nigeria

Akintayo Opawole, Godwin Onajite Jagboro

Little success had been recorded on concession-based public private partnership contracts in Nigeria for reasons attributable in part to poor assessment of the socio-cultural and…