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An interpretive phenomenological approach to understanding employee meaning of lean and respect for people (2018)
Thesis
Sloan, B. An interpretive phenomenological approach to understanding employee meaning of lean and respect for people. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1532542

Lean is a popular approach for improving operational efficiencies in an organisation through the reduction of wasteful activities. Entities of every size and description today are implementing Lean techniques to maximise customer value, operational e... Read More about An interpretive phenomenological approach to understanding employee meaning of lean and respect for people.

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..

A century of research on property cycles – a literature review and annotated bibliography. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Jadevicius, A., Sloan, B., & Brown, A. (2010). A century of research on property cycles – a literature review and annotated bibliography.

The existence of cycles in the general business sector, as well as in building and property has grown to have significant importance in the UK, whereas the UK property market has been characterised by boom and bust cycles with a negative impact on th... Read More about A century of research on property cycles – a literature review and annotated bibliography..

A century of research on property cycles – a review of research on major and auxiliary business cycles. (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Jadevicius, A., Sloan, B., & Brown, A. (2010, September). A century of research on property cycles – a review of research on major and auxiliary business cycles. Paper presented at XI BSV International Conference on Valuation and Investment,

The existence of cycles within economy and its sub-sectors has been studied for a number of years. The importance of cycles has grown to have significant importance in the major capitalistic countries, seeing cycles as having a negative impact on the... Read More about A century of research on property cycles – a review of research on major and auxiliary business cycles..

Flexible working in Scottish local authority property: moving on to the highest flexibility level. (2009)
Journal Article
Khamkanya, T., & Sloan, B. (2009). Flexible working in Scottish local authority property: moving on to the highest flexibility level. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 13, 37-52. https://doi.org/10.3846/1648-715X.2009.13.37-52

Flexible working has emerged as a modern concept for managing office resources more effectively, efficiently, and economically. The highest level of flexible working environment, a non-territorial working environment, can provide the best opportunity... Read More about Flexible working in Scottish local authority property: moving on to the highest flexibility level..

Flexible working in Scottish local authority property: Developing a combined resource management strategy (2008)
Journal Article
Khamkanya, T., & Sloan, B. (2008). Flexible working in Scottish local authority property: Developing a combined resource management strategy. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 12(3), 183-202. https://doi.org/10.3846/1648-715x.2008.12.183-202

As indicated in Government reports and previous research, the traditional office environment of both central and local governments has been occupied with high occupancy cost. Flexible working supported by information and communication technology, hum... Read More about Flexible working in Scottish local authority property: Developing a combined resource management strategy.

The challenge of designing a computer network system: A snapshot of UK construction SMEs. (2003)
Journal Article
Wong, A., & Sloan, B. (2003). The challenge of designing a computer network system: A snapshot of UK construction SMEs. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 7, 107-118

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been widely used in the UK construction industry for the last two decades. A prolific development in ICT with a wide range of IT applications is already witnessed by a divergent range of construction... Read More about The challenge of designing a computer network system: A snapshot of UK construction SMEs..

The potential impact of electronic procurement and global sourcing within the UK construction industry. (2001)
Conference Proceeding
McIntosh, G., & Sloan, B. (2001). The potential impact of electronic procurement and global sourcing within the UK construction industry.

There is an ever-increasing amount of applications for Information Technology (IT) for use in procurement systems in all forms of business. This paper describes the role Electronic Procurement and Global Sourcing techniques can play in the United Kin... Read More about The potential impact of electronic procurement and global sourcing within the UK construction industry..

A perspective on the digital interactive service industry for building professionals (2001)
Journal Article
Low, B. K., & Sloan, B. (2001). A perspective on the digital interactive service industry for building professionals. Automation in Construction, 10(2), 229-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-5805%2899%2900031-X

The digital interactive service industry has the potential to generate innovation and strategic advantage for existing business if the underlying dynamics of the emerging industry are fostered through appropriate understanding and strategic actions.... Read More about A perspective on the digital interactive service industry for building professionals.