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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..

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..

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..