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A Review on Blue Roofs in new UK Constructions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jack, J., & Sajjadian, S. M. (2023, September). A Review on Blue Roofs in new UK Constructions. Presented at International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-23, Bari, Italy

Flooding causes significant risk to the UK’s infrastructure and the need for additional stormwater management systems is growing rapidly. The demand for housing, lack of land, cramped housing with no gardens, urban cooling, air pollution and aestheti... Read More about A Review on Blue Roofs in new UK Constructions.

A Technical Review on Blue and Blue-Green Roofs (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, R., & Sajjadian, S. M. (2023, September). A Technical Review on Blue and Blue-Green Roofs. Presented at International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-23, Bari, Italy

Increased development of Greenfield areas to tackle housing shortages, combined with increased rainfall due to climate change has created drainage issues within urban areas, this has increased pressure on existing drainage infrastructure and has inte... Read More about A Technical Review on Blue and Blue-Green Roofs.

Vacuum Insulation Panels for Domestic New Builds and Refurbishment in Scotland (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mitchell, N., & Sajjadian, S. M. (2023, September). Vacuum Insulation Panels for Domestic New Builds and Refurbishment in Scotland. Presented at International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-23, Bari, Italy

Insulations have fundamental role in buildings’ thermal performance by assisting in reducing heat loss and excessive heat gain through the thermal envelope, which subsequently reduces the demand on heating and cooling systems. Increased energy perfor... Read More about Vacuum Insulation Panels for Domestic New Builds and Refurbishment in Scotland.

SARS-CoV-2, Ventilation Strategies, Thermal Comfort and Carbon Implications for Buildings (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M. (2023). SARS-CoV-2, Ventilation Strategies, Thermal Comfort and Carbon Implications for Buildings. In PLEA STGO 2022: Book of Proceedings Volume 1 (160-164)

The spread of SARS-CoV-2 since 2019 has rapidly become a global crisis with unprecedented records of deaths and hospitalizations in the last century. The infectious particles spread more easily indoors than outdoors and therefore built environment se... Read More about SARS-CoV-2, Ventilation Strategies, Thermal Comfort and Carbon Implications for Buildings.

Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Jafari, M., & Chen, X. (2021). Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2021 (69-78). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6269-0_6

Architectural designers and technologists are able to make an assessment on buildability, thermal and hygrothermal performance of design details. To process drawings, human vision segments, classifies and distinguishes the drawing objects on the basi... Read More about Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network.

Four Angles of Using Timber in Tall Buildings (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Barlow, C., & Tupenaite, L. (2020). Four Angles of Using Timber in Tall Buildings. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2020 (183-193). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8783-2_15

Increasing attention to utilise more sustainable materials in the construction industry has made timber-based building elements more desirable. The advantages of timber in prefabrication and sustainable development are widely known, and recent invest... Read More about Four Angles of Using Timber in Tall Buildings.

Selection of structural system for wooden public building: Multiple criteria approach (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tupenaite, L., Gecys, T., Kanapeckiene, L., Sajjadian, S. M., & Naimaviciene, J. (2019). Selection of structural system for wooden public building: Multiple criteria approach. In The 13th international conference: Modern building materials, structures an

There has been a growing interest in the construction industry for using materials with lower environmental impacts, in this context, stakeholders increasingly seeing wood as the natural and sustainable option for public buildings. Studies worldwide... Read More about Selection of structural system for wooden public building: Multiple criteria approach.

High rise buildings in Europe from energy performance perspective (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Tupenaite, L., Kanapeckiene, L., Naimaviciene, J., Radif, S., & Amado, M. (2019). High rise buildings in Europe from energy performance perspective. In The 13th international conference: Modern building materials, structures and techniq

The United States is well known for the birthplace of tall buildings in the world since the nineteenth century. The trend continued across all continents and in 1940, Europe developed its first tall building of over 100 meters in Genoa, Italy. Buildi... Read More about High rise buildings in Europe from energy performance perspective.

An Artificial Intelligence Method for Comfort Level Prediction (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Jafari, M., & Siebers, P. (2018). An Artificial Intelligence Method for Comfort Level Prediction. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2018: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference in Sustainability on Energy and Building

With the rapid demand for the energy efficient consumption in buildings, bridging the gap between predicted and measured performance is essential. However, recent studies show that there is a significant mismatch between predicted and actual building... Read More about An Artificial Intelligence Method for Comfort Level Prediction.

Translating Design Details to Construction Details- with Both Eyes Open (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadianm, S. (2017). Translating Design Details to Construction Details- with Both Eyes Open. In International Conference for Sustainable Design of the Built Environment: Proceedings (983-990)

Sustainable designs will come to nothing if they are lost in construction process. Therefore, the accuracy of design details and the transformation to the construction details is vital to achieve initial design thinking targets. This is driven most i... Read More about Translating Design Details to Construction Details- with Both Eyes Open.

Quantifying the Behavior of Modern and Traditional Construction Systems on the Basis of Thermal Comfort (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S., & Sharples, S. (2017). Quantifying the Behavior of Modern and Traditional Construction Systems on the Basis of Thermal Comfort. In Design to Thrive - PLEA 2017: Proceedings of 33rd PLEA International Conference. Volume 1 (136-143)

Thermal comfort is crucial to ascertain the energy consumption in buildings and is a key factor for decision-making in the design of sustainable building envelopes. This paper presents a methodology to assess the performance of construction systems q... Read More about Quantifying the Behavior of Modern and Traditional Construction Systems on the Basis of Thermal Comfort.

The Pedagogical Impact of Augmented Reality on Architectural Education (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M. (2017). The Pedagogical Impact of Augmented Reality on Architectural Education. In Volume 6: Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXXI (295-300). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-792-4-295

Latest hardware and software development in computer science and software engineering have promoted Augmented Reality (AR) prototypes for a number of architecture and design applications. Recent development in digital fabrication tools and techniques... Read More about The Pedagogical Impact of Augmented Reality on Architectural Education.

Heating and Cooling Loads in High Performance Construction Systems-Will Climate Change Alter Design Decisions? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2015). Heating and Cooling Loads in High Performance Construction Systems-Will Climate Change Alter Design Decisions?. Procedia Engineering, 118, 498-506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.467

Climate change and its consequences are of great concern. Buildings can be affected by climate change in different ways, such as changes in energy needs and thermal comfort. However, the challenge is to quantify and assess the uncertainties involved... Read More about Heating and Cooling Loads in High Performance Construction Systems-Will Climate Change Alter Design Decisions?.

Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013). Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context. In Proceedings of IPGRC 2013: International post graduate research conference (1106-1113)

Thermal comfort is a complicatedsubjectand is thus hard to quantify generally and specificallyandthe existing quantification methods are unlikely to be reliable for naturally ventilated houses. The challenge for designers is to produce a com... Read More about Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context.

Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013). Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB´12) (

Decision-making in the design of sustainable building envelopes will mostly consider the trade-off between initial cost and energy savings. However, this leads to an insufficiently holistic approach to the assessment of the sustainable performance of... Read More about Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance.