Outputs (285)

Photovoltaic-integrated review and expansion need in green building landscape for bridging the Malaysian RE policy (2020)
Journal Article
Amran, M. E., Muhtazaruddin, M. N., Bani, N. A., Rahaman, S. A. S. A., Yusoff, N. M., Azizul, M. H., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2020). Photovoltaic-integrated review and expansion need in green building landscape for bridging the Malaysian RE policy. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 17(1), 27-35. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v17.i1.pp27-35

A literature review is presented specifically on the photovoltaic (PV) as a distributed generation (DG) integration approach and the extensiveness through renewable energy (RE) assessment criteria in current green building rating system (GBRS) to: de... Read More about Photovoltaic-integrated review and expansion need in green building landscape for bridging the Malaysian RE policy.

Increasing offsite housing construction in Scotland: An evidence base to support new policy and systems (2020)
Report
Mora, L., Deakin, M., Reid, A., Hairstans, R., Duncheva, M., Calcagno, C., Smith, M., Smith, P., & Lang, V. (2020). Increasing offsite housing construction in Scotland: An evidence base to support new policy and systems. Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, Scottish Enterprise. and the Scottish Government

The purpose of this project is to provide evidence of the potential contribution offsite construction offers to address the challenges faced by the affordable housing sector in Scotland. Funding for the project is drawn from the Construction Scotland... Read More about Increasing offsite housing construction in Scotland: An evidence base to support new policy and systems.

Comfort temperature and preferred adaptive behaviour in various classroom types in the UK higher learning environments (2020)
Journal Article
Jowkar, M., Rijal, H. B., Brusey, J., Montazami, A., Carlucci, S., & Lansdown, T. C. (2020). Comfort temperature and preferred adaptive behaviour in various classroom types in the UK higher learning environments. Energy and Buildings, 211, Article 109814. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.109814

Maintaining the thermal comfort of occupants along with minimising the related energy consumption is necessary in educational buildings in the UK. Thermal comfort is particularly important in this context as it affects how well students learn in the... Read More about Comfort temperature and preferred adaptive behaviour in various classroom types in the UK higher learning environments.

Qualifying the Sustainability of Novel Designs and Existing Solutions for Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Sheltering (2020)
Journal Article
Alshawawreh, L., Alshawawreh, L., Pomponi, F., Pomponi, F., D'Amico, B., D’Amico, B., Snaddon, S., Snaddon, S., Guthrie, P., & Guthrie, P. (2020). Qualifying the Sustainability of Novel Designs and Existing Solutions for Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Sheltering. Sustainability, 12(3), Article 890. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12030890

During the course of 2018, 70.8 million people globally were forcibly displaced due to natural disasters and conflicts—a staggering increase of 2.9 million people compared to the previous year’s figure. Displaced people cluster in refugee camps which... Read More about Qualifying the Sustainability of Novel Designs and Existing Solutions for Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Sheltering.

Practical approach for paving the way to motivate BIM non-users to adopt BIM (2020)
Journal Article
Elhendawi, A., Omar, H., Elbeltagi, E., & Smith, A. (2020). Practical approach for paving the way to motivate BIM non-users to adopt BIM. International Journal of BIM and Engineering Science, 2(2), 1-22

Typically, the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry is considered one of the most effective contributor to the national developments worldwide. However, the AEC industry is facing myriad challenges due to the pressing calls for... Read More about Practical approach for paving the way to motivate BIM non-users to adopt BIM.

Orthogonally dual‐polarised MIMO antenna array with pattern diversity for use in 5G smartphones (2020)
Journal Article
Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Al‐Yasir, Y. I., Jahanbakhsh Basherlou, H., Abd‐Alhameed, R. A., & Noras, J. M. (2020). Orthogonally dual‐polarised MIMO antenna array with pattern diversity for use in 5G smartphones. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 14(6), 457-467. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2019.0328

A new multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) antenna design is introduced for future smartphones. The proposed design contains four pairs of double-fed circular-ring resonators located at different edges of the smartphone printed circuit board (PCB) w... Read More about Orthogonally dual‐polarised MIMO antenna array with pattern diversity for use in 5G smartphones.

Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making (2020)
Journal Article
Susca, T., & Pomponi, F. (2020). Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 24(2), 410-423. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12980

Urbanization often entails a surge in urban temperature compared to the rural surroundings: the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Such a temperature increase triggers the formation of pollutants worsening the urban air quality. Jointly, bad air quality... Read More about Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making.

Effect of motorcycle helmet types on head injuries: evidence from eight level-I trauma centres in Taiwan (2020)
Journal Article
Lam, C., Wiratama, B. S., Chang, W., Chen, P., Chiu, W., Saleh, W., & Pai, C. (2020). Effect of motorcycle helmet types on head injuries: evidence from eight level-I trauma centres in Taiwan. BMC Public Health, 20(1), Article 78 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-8191-1

Background
Motorcycle full-coverage helmet use may reduce fatalities and head injuries.

Methods
This retrospective cohort study extracted injury data from eight level-I trauma centres in Taiwan and performed a questionnaire survey to investigate... Read More about Effect of motorcycle helmet types on head injuries: evidence from eight level-I trauma centres in Taiwan.

Semi-global incremental input-to-state stability of discrete-time Lur'e systems (2020)
Journal Article
Gilmore, M., Guiver, C., & Logemann, H. (2020). Semi-global incremental input-to-state stability of discrete-time Lur'e systems. Systems and Control Letters, 136, Article 104593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysconle.2019.104593

We present sufficient conditions for semi-global incremental input-to-state stability of a class of forced discrete-time Lur'e systems. The results derived are reminiscent of well-known absolute stability criteria such as the small gain theorem and t... Read More about Semi-global incremental input-to-state stability of discrete-time Lur'e systems.

Internal insulation condition identification for high-voltage capacitor voltage transformers based on possibilistic fuzzy clustering (2020)
Journal Article
Meng, Z., Li, H., Chen, Q., & See, C. H. (2020). Internal insulation condition identification for high-voltage capacitor voltage transformers based on possibilistic fuzzy clustering. Review of Scientific Instruments, 91(1), Article 014705. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5123438

The internal insulation condition of capacitor voltage transformers (CVTs) is a key influence factor that affects their measurement performance and safe operation. However, the internal insulation would age along with long-time operation and degrade... Read More about Internal insulation condition identification for high-voltage capacitor voltage transformers based on possibilistic fuzzy clustering.