Smart and Sustainable Built Environment: Volume 11 Issue 2

Guest editorial – Future construction: design solutions and approaches

Ali GhaffarianHoseini, Amirhosein GhaffarianHoseini, Farzad Rahimian, Nashwan Dawood

Prioritising optimal underutilised historical buildings for adaptive reuse: a performance-based MCDA framework validation in Auckland, New Zealand

Itohan Esther Aigwi, Amarachukwu Nnadozie Nwadike, An Thi Hoan Le, Funmilayo Ebun Rotimi, Tanya Sorrell, Reza Jafarzadeh, James Rotimi

Currently trending as a practical approach to promote urban and seismic resilience, the adaptive reuse of historical buildings relies on expertise from various professional…

Learning from the biology of evolution: exaptation as a design strategy for future cities

Alessandro Melis, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Barbora Melis

This paper highlights the importance of transdisciplinary studies in times of crisis. In the first part, the study shows the benefits of the introduction of literature on biology…

A BIM-based LCA tool for sustainable building design during the early design stage

Aliakbar Kamari, Bartlomiej Marek Kotula, Carl Peter Leslie Schultz

A robust method in environmental load assessment of buildings is urgently required to reduce the environmental burden of the construction industry. While the industry utilizes the…

Personal thermal comfort models: a deep learning approach for predicting older people’s thermal preference

Larissa Arakawa Martins, Veronica Soebarto, Terence Williamson, Dino Pisaniello

This paper presents the development of personal thermal comfort models for older adults and assesses the models’ performance compared to aggregate approaches. This is necessary as…

Application of luminous efficacies for daylight illuminance data generation in subtropical Hong Kong

Emmanuel Imuetinyan Aghimien, Danny Hin Wa Li

Daylight plays a crucial role in the attainment of building energy savings. Harnessing daylight in building designs will require the need for daylight illuminance data. However…

Environment, resources, and surroundings based dynamic project schedule model for the road construction industry in New Zealand

Mahesh Babu Purushothaman, Sumit Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the environment, resources and surroundings factors to develop a system dynamic model of dynamic project scheduling that aids…

Consolidating loads for sustainable construction in New Zealand: a literature review-based research framework

Kamal Dhawan, John Tookey, Ali GhaffarianHoseini, Amirhosein GhaffarianHoseini

A long-term collaborative public water infrastructure procurement contract in New Zealand adopts “Enterprise Alliance” delivery (strategy) with a Construction Consolidation Centre…

Solar-powered smart urban furniture: preliminary investigation on limits and potentials of current designs

Alessandro Premier, Ali GhaffarianHoseini, Amirhosein GhaffarianHoseini

This research is focused on solar-powered (smart) urban furniture, and it is aimed at providing a classification of it and to understand the main problems related to the adoption…

Evaluation of smart irrigation systems in hot-arid climates for green roofs and walls: case of Doha, Qatar

Sara M. Zaina, Fodil Fadli, Seyed Morteza Hosseini

The study aims to develop recommendations for optimal Internet of things (IoT) based solutions for a smart precision irrigation automation platform using morphological thinking…

Risk management in guaranteed maximum price (GMP) contracts

Asha Dulanjalie Palihakkara, B.A.K.S. Perera

Guaranteed maximum price (GMP) contracts are becoming an increasingly popular contract solution; however, many projects experience higher levels of risk and exceed predetermined…

A strategy for integrating hillside dwelling design and automated construction techniques

Philip Tong, Hans-Christian Wilhelm

Sloping topographies in urban areas are often under-utilised due to complex designs and difficult access, resulting in low construction productivity and high cost. Automated…