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Historic Environment Scotland Technical Paper 34: Energy consumption and behaviour profiles for eight traditionally built dwellings (2020)
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Stinson, J., Bros Williamson, J., Garnier, C., & Currie, J. (2020). Historic Environment Scotland Technical Paper 34: Energy consumption and behaviour profiles for eight traditionally built dwellings. Edinburgh: Historic Environment Scotland

Over the last decade, there has been an increased awareness of the need to improve the energy efficiency and sustainability of Scotland’s building stock and to fulfl obligations under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. Since approximately 20% of... Read More about Historic Environment Scotland Technical Paper 34: Energy consumption and behaviour profiles for eight traditionally built dwellings.

Offsite Ready Booklets (2020)
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Duncheva, M., Calcagno, C., Henquel, V., Leitch, K., Stinson, J., Plant O'Toole, E., Bros-Williamson, J., Livingstone, A., De Saint-Sernin, A., Hairstans, R., Hillier, J., Bentley, A., Barran, R., Avins, L., Setiati, D., Richards, L., & Ferriz-Papi, J. A. (2020). Offsite Ready Booklets. Edinburgh: Construction Industry Training Board

African BIM Report 2020 (2020)
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Saka, A., Itanola, M., Olawumi, T., Kori, S., Hamma-adama, M., Akinradewo, O., Fordjour Antwi-Afari, M., Ayinla, K., Banahene Blay, K., Adamu, Z., Kaduma, L., Blay, K., Udeze, O., Kolo, S., Markafi, U., Khalid, B., Yusuf, H., Aghimien, E. I., Olanrewaju, O., Aliu, S., …Mimoun, M. (2020). African BIM Report 2020. Abuja, Nigeria: BIM AFRICA

While it may seem like the adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) across Africa is slow-paced, the increasing advocacy efforts from various stakeholders is now resulting in a widespread drive for implementation and deployment. Coupled with... Read More about African BIM Report 2020.

Exploring the relationships between privacy by design schemes and privacy laws: a comparative analysis (2020)
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Aljeraisy, A., Barati, M., Rana, O., & Perera, C. (2020). Exploring the relationships between privacy by design schemes and privacy laws: a comparative analysis. Cardiff: Cardiff University

Internet of Things (IoT) applications have the potential to derive sensitive information about individuals. Therefore, developers must exercise due diligence to make sure that data are managed according to the privacy regulations and data protection... Read More about Exploring the relationships between privacy by design schemes and privacy laws: a comparative analysis.

Phase 2 - High Visibility Crosswalk Pedestrian Study:Concept to Countermeasure – Research to Deployment Using the SHRP2 Safety Data (2020)
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Majka, K., Pierowicz, J., Blatt, A., Anastasopoulos, P. C., Sonduru Pantangi, S., Eker, U., Fountas, G., & Shahriar Ahmed, S. (2020). Phase 2 - High Visibility Crosswalk Pedestrian Study:Concept to Countermeasure – Research to Deployment Using the SHRP2 Safety Data. New York Department of Transportation

This study was focused on evaluating the effectiveness that high-visibility crosswalk (HVC) markings have on improving pedestrian safety. Naturalistic driving data was used to analyze vehicle kinematics and driver behavior in relation to the approach... Read More about Phase 2 - High Visibility Crosswalk Pedestrian Study:Concept to Countermeasure – Research to Deployment Using the SHRP2 Safety Data.

Workshop report for DISIPRAC: Digital identity security information practices of citizens (March 2020) (2020)
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Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, F. (2020). Workshop report for DISIPRAC: Digital identity security information practices of citizens (March 2020). Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University

The report reflects the outcome of a workshop with practitioners held on 27 February 2020. It is aimed at practitioners and policy makers, and gives some evidence of a number of issues around management of digital identities (including a few scenario... Read More about Workshop report for DISIPRAC: Digital identity security information practices of citizens (March 2020).

Increasing offsite housing construction in Scotland: An evidence base to support new policy and systems (2020)
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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.

Factors affecting perceived and observed aggressive driving behavior: An empirical analysis of driver fatigue, and distracted driving (2019)
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Fountas, G., Pantangi, S. S., Ahmed, S. S., Eker, U., & Anastasopoulos, P. C. (2019). Factors affecting perceived and observed aggressive driving behavior: An empirical analysis of driver fatigue, and distracted driving. Transportation Informatics Tier I University Transportation Center

Previous research has shown that the determinants of perceived and observed aggressive driving behavior may differ. However, the consideration of major sources of aggressive patterns may introduce additional variations in the effect of such determin... Read More about Factors affecting perceived and observed aggressive driving behavior: An empirical analysis of driver fatigue, and distracted driving.

New Housing & Future Construction Skills: Adapting and Modernising for Growth (2019)
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Smith, S. (2019). New Housing & Future Construction Skills: Adapting and Modernising for Growth. Edinburgh: Scottish Government

The short life working group (SLWG) met during 2018 and was established to assess and provide recommendations for ‘future new housing and construction skills’. Members included housebuilders, industry organisations, college, university, public sector... Read More about New Housing & Future Construction Skills: Adapting and Modernising for Growth.

Applications of Knowledge Discovery in Massive Transportation Data: The Development of a Transportation Research Informatics Platform (TRIP). (2019)
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Majka, K., Nagler, E., James, A., Blatt, A., Pierowicz, J., Anastasopoulos, P. . C., & Fountnas, G. (2019). Applications of Knowledge Discovery in Massive Transportation Data: The Development of a Transportation Research Informatics Platform (TRIP). Federal Highway Administration

Transportation researchers and practitioners have access to unprecedented amounts of data but lack the tools to easily store, manipulate, and analyze these data. The Transportation Research Informatics Platform (TRIP) is an informatics-based system d... Read More about Applications of Knowledge Discovery in Massive Transportation Data: The Development of a Transportation Research Informatics Platform (TRIP)..

India-UK Workshop on knowledge transfer on the sustainability of innovative wastewater treatment technologies to India: Final Report. (2018)
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Benson, D., Parker, B., Mishra, V., Muthukumar, K., & Sundaram, S. (2018). India-UK Workshop on knowledge transfer on the sustainability of innovative wastewater treatment technologies to India: Final Report

Untreated industrial wastewater pollution, primarily from textile production, threatens water resources in central Tamil Nadu, India, where the Noyyal River flows through several densely populated urban centres. The workshop consequently aimed at kno... Read More about India-UK Workshop on knowledge transfer on the sustainability of innovative wastewater treatment technologies to India: Final Report..

TG1/201804/25rev Derivation of MTG grading machine settings for Douglas fir (IE & GB, C classes) (2018)
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Ridley-Ellis, D., & Gil-Moreno, D. (2018). TG1/201804/25rev Derivation of MTG grading machine settings for Douglas fir (IE & GB, C classes). Ljubljana: WoodProps for Ireland project

Grading machines MTG 960 mtgBATCH 962 mtgBATCH 966 MTG 920 mtgBATCH 922 mtgBATCH 926 Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) (PSMN) Permitted timber sizes Thickness: 33 mm to 84 mm Width: 68 mm to 248 mm C35/16 C27/16, C24/C16, C24/14... Read More about TG1/201804/25rev Derivation of MTG grading machine settings for Douglas fir (IE & GB, C classes).

Drizzle Algorithm (2018)
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Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Qasem, M. (2018). Drizzle Algorithm. USA: IETF

Trickle algorithm used in RPL routing protocol suffers from some issues related to power, network convergence time and overhead and load-distribution. To optimize this algorithm for Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs), a new algorithm called Dr... Read More about Drizzle Algorithm.

ICE report T1. 4: A Community Specific Assessment of Local Energy (2018)
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Hardwick, J., Zheng, S., Smith, H. C., Fitch-Roy, O., Williams, J., Connor, P. M., …Iglesias, G. (2018). ICE report T1. 4: A Community Specific Assessment of Local Energy. Penryn, UK: European Union

This report builds on the output generated in ICE reports T1.1.1 and T1.1.2 to assess the current generation and demand characteristics for the two target sites: the island of Ushant off Northwest France and the University of East Anglia campus in No... Read More about ICE report T1. 4: A Community Specific Assessment of Local Energy.

ICE report T1. 1.1: An overview of renewable energy supply potential (2018)
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Hardwick, J., Smith, H., Fitch-Roy, O., Connor, P., & Sundaram, S. (2018). ICE report T1. 1.1: An overview of renewable energy supply potential. European Union

This report reviews available renewable energy technologies for remote communities, outlines appropriate methodologies for assessing the available resources, and identifies key constraints. A parallel report, ‘T1.1.2 Policy Issues’, describes the reg... Read More about ICE report T1. 1.1: An overview of renewable energy supply potential.

Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-01 (2018)
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Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Ghaleb, B. (2018). Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-01. USA: IETF

This document proposes an extended Objective Function(OF) that balances the number of children nodes of the parent nodes to avoid the overloading problem and ensure node lifetime maximization in the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Net... Read More about Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-01.

Review of actual energy demand and envelope performance of the Housing Innovation Showcase 2012 (2017)
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Bros Williamson, J. (2017). Review of actual energy demand and envelope performance of the Housing Innovation Showcase 2012. Edinburgh: Internal (Napier)

This document presents a review of four years of delivered energy demand of selected dwellings at the Housing Innovation Showcase (HIS) developed by Kingdom Housing Association (KHA). It also includes results of the building performance bi-annual mon... Read More about Review of actual energy demand and envelope performance of the Housing Innovation Showcase 2012.

Work Package 1 - Review of construction process (2017)
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Bros Williamson, J., & Currie, J. (2017). Work Package 1 - Review of construction process. Edinburgh: Private, Cala Group Ltd

This report was commissioned by the Product Design Department at Cala Group Ltd (CALA) from the Scottish Energy Centre (review team) to assess current designs and construction methods. This review forms part of work package 1 (WP1) proposed as the fi... Read More about Work Package 1 - Review of construction process.