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Embodied energy and carbon analysis of urban residential buildings in Malawi (2015)
Journal Article
Mpakati Gama, E. C., Brown, A., & Sloan, B. (2016). Embodied energy and carbon analysis of urban residential buildings in Malawi. International journal of construction management, 16(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/15623599.2015.1110274

The rising demand for bricks baked in wood-fuelled kilns in Malawi is raising concerns due to its contribution to fluctuations of climatic conditions locally and globally. This paper presents findings of a study to evaluate the global warming poten... Read More about Embodied energy and carbon analysis of urban residential buildings in Malawi.

Identification Of Performance Measures For Municipal Construction Projects In Saudi Arabia (2014)
Journal Article
Alsulamy, S., Gupta, N., Sloan, B., & Wamuziri, S. (2014). Identification Of Performance Measures For Municipal Construction Projects In Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 36(1), 1192-1201

Performance measures are a key management tool that determine success or failure of performance whether at organizational or project level. In municipalities, performance measures are being utilised to attain stakeholders' and citizens' expectations... Read More about Identification Of Performance Measures For Municipal Construction Projects In Saudi Arabia.

Factors influencing municipal construction project performance (2014)
Journal Article
Alsulamy, S., Gupta, N., & Sloan, B. (2014). Factors influencing municipal construction project performance. Proceedings of the ICE - Municipal Engineer, 167(2), 108-117. https://doi.org/10.1680/muen.13.00029

There is a strong correlation between practised critical success factors and the efficiency of performance measurement systems in delivering satisfactory service. Construction project success is affected by multiple diminution factors, including cri... Read More about Factors influencing municipal construction project performance.

Green building challenges: evaluating the operation of adopted building assessment tools - case study. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Mpakati Gama, E., Wamuziri, S., & Sloan, B. (2012). Green building challenges: evaluating the operation of adopted building assessment tools - case study.

In recent years, the green building environmental assessment tools (BEATs) are increasingly being adopted from one country to the other. Previous authors have proposed several ways for improving the performance of BEATs precisely, the second gener... Read More about Green building challenges: evaluating the operation of adopted building assessment tools - case study..

The use of alternative building materials in developing countries: addressing challenges faced by stakeholders. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Mpakati Gama, E., Wamuziri, S., & Sloan, B. (2012). The use of alternative building materials in developing countries: addressing challenges faced by stakeholders.

The rising concern on inefficient wood consumption associated with shelter development has led to policy and regulatory reforms to address such problems in most countries in recent years. The use of alternative building materials (ABMs) and technol... Read More about The use of alternative building materials in developing countries: addressing challenges faced by stakeholders..

Development of a Sesma model for short-term investment decision-making. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Jadevicius, A., Sloan, B., & Brown, A. (2012). Development of a Sesma model for short-term investment decision-making.

ARIMA models have been extensively used for property market modelling. Property researchers have used this type of univariate forecasting technique to predict property rents, returns and yields. However, it has been indicated that ARIMA models could... Read More about Development of a Sesma model for short-term investment decision-making..

Applicability of inventory methods for embodied energy assessment of buildings in Sub-Sahara Africa (2011)
Journal Article
Mpakati Gama, E., Wamuziri, S., & Sloan, B. (2011). Applicability of inventory methods for embodied energy assessment of buildings in Sub-Sahara Africa. The Built and Human Environment Review, 4, 41-55

As the knowledge and understanding of environmental impacts associated with buildings increase, methods of assessing the impacts are also improving in building research. This paper attempts to analyse how applicable the conventional and improved proc... Read More about Applicability of inventory methods for embodied energy assessment of buildings in Sub-Sahara Africa.

Environmental monitoring and evaluation in Sub-Sahara Africa – a state of the art review (2011)
Journal Article
Mpakati Gama, E., Wamuziri, S., & Sloan, B. (2011). Environmental monitoring and evaluation in Sub-Sahara Africa – a state of the art review. Built & Human Environment Reivew, 4, 56-63

The knowledge and understanding of the environmental related problems associated with development activities has increased rapidly in recent years. Consequently, arise in adoption of appraisal tools for monitoring environmental performance is also ev... Read More about Environmental monitoring and evaluation in Sub-Sahara Africa – a state of the art review.

Environmental sustainability in the construction Industry in developing countries: a study of embodied energy of low-cost housing. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Mpakati Gama, E., Wamuziri, S., & Sloan, B. (2010). Environmental sustainability in the construction Industry in developing countries: a study of embodied energy of low-cost housing.

The embodied energy (EE) of a residential building is estimated at 20-40% of operation energy over its total usable life. However, this varies from one context to the other due to the primary energy used, technological advancement of a particular... Read More about Environmental sustainability in the construction Industry in developing countries: a study of embodied energy of low-cost housing..