A5024404346- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Architecture and Cultural Influences
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Architecture and Computational Design
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Architecture, Modernity, and Design
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Sustainable Design and Development
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Construction Project Management and Performance
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2019-2024
Media Design School
2021
Aalborg University
2021
UCLouvain
2019
University of Portsmouth
2015-2019
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
2017
Curtin University
2014-2016
University of South Australia
2010-2015
University of Bern
2015
UNESCO
2011
The combination of urbanization and global warming leads to urban overheating compounds the frequency intensity extreme heat events due climate change. Yet, risk can be mitigated by green-blue-grey infrastructure (GBGI), such as parks, wetlands, engineered greening, which have potential effectively reduce summer air temperatures. Despite many reviews, evidence bases on quantified GBGI cooling benefits remains partial practical recommendations for implementation are unclear. This systematic...
The currently consumption-driven society produces an enormous volume of waste every day. Continuous depletion natural finite resources by urban populations is leading the globe to uncertain future. Therefore, prevent further global resources, sustainable consumption and a strategic management system would be required. It evident that significant number non-renewable such as cadmium, mercury tellurium will experience permanent shortfall in supply within next two three decades. Astonishingly,...
Contents Foreword I and II Preface Prologue Introduction : Can Urbanism Ever Be Green? Photo Series 1. Turning Constraints into Opportunities: 64 Cities the Post-Industrial Condition 2. The Principles of Green 3. Case Studies - Putting it all Together 4. Looking Ahead to a Low-Carbon Future 5. Appendices Glossary Index
Beyond energy efficiency, there are now urgent challenges around the supply of resources, materials, energy, food and water. After debating efficiency for last decade, focus has shifted to include further resources material efficiency. In this context, urban farming emerged as a valid design strategy, where is produced consumed locally within city boundaries, turning disused sites underutilized public space into productive landscapes community gardens. Furthermore, such agricultural...
New urban design concepts should guide the inclusion and re-introduction of greenery biodiversity in built environment. Preserving face urbanization, habitat fragmentation, environmental degradation climate change is probably one greatest challenges our time. The integration trees, shrubs flora into green spaces gardens city particularly important helping to keep environment cool, because buildings pavements increase heat absorption reflection (what called island effect). Tomorrow's...
Purpose – This paper aims to present a survey of the perceptions barriers implementing reverse logistics (RL) practices in South Australian (SA) construction organisations. Despite extensive research on forward and RL, there is paucity studies that examine RL particularly within industry. study builds ongoing being undertaken by authors, entitled “Designing for (DfRL) building life cycle: practices, drivers barriers”, which examining best could be used as “road map” developing appropriate...
Resource challenges are particularly dominant in fast-expanding cities the Southeast-Asian region and include inefficient infrastructure systems leading to energy black-outs, urban flooding, lack of waste recycling increasing emissions air pollution. This article addresses development integrated planning approaches as a tool for increased resource efficiency. It aims link circular economy discourse with Urban Nexus. Three specific case studies called ‘living labs’ implemented Nexus approach...
The question of density is closely connected to urbanization and how our cities may evolve in the future. <em>Density</em> <em>compactness</em> are two related but different criteria, both relevant for sustainable urban development transformation cities; however, their relationship not always well understood. While a high degree compactness desirable, too much can be detrimental liveability, health well-being. purpose this article report first on an extreme case hyper-density: Kowloon Walled...
How are our cities using nature-based solutions to confront the challenges posed by a warming climate, loss of biodiversity and major resource depletion? This article discusses opportunities benefits applying concepts regreening rewilding cities. The engages with key sources summarizes background development important policies, concerns perspectives international national organizations. It introduces integration (NBS) as strategy in urban planning aim strengthen resilience slow down decline....
Prefabricated engineered solid wood panel construction systems can sequester and store CO2. Modular cross-laminated timber (CLT, also called cross-lam) panels form the basis of low-carbon, using that be used to build residential infill developments 10 storeys or higher. Multi-apartment buildings 4 constructed entirely in timber, such as recently Europe, are innovative, but their social cultural acceptance Australia North America is at this stage still uncertain. Future commercial utilisation...
Despite extensive research on the benefits of reverse logistics (RL), it has yet to become commonplace in construction industry. Furthermore, uptake and number studies RL remains very limited within Australian context particularly related This paper is aimed at filling that knowledge gap by employing an exploratory approach examine critical barriers faced South organizations implementing practices. Semi-structured interviews a ranking facilitated treatment qualitative data through...
Purpose – A large number of benefits have been reported when reverse logistics (RL) is fully implemented in the construction industry. However, RL yet to become common place sector, particularly Australia. The particular sub-sector which operates small and weak remainder sector must embrace accommodate it comfortably. Research lacking on how promoting Very little has done identify current practices that potential promote industry-wide. purpose this paper work well a strategy could be mapped...
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect can result in higher urban densities being significantly hotter (frequently more than 4 °C, even up to 10 °C) compared their peri-urban surroundings. Such artificial heat stress increases the health risk of spending time outdoors and boosts need for energy consumption, particularly cooling during summer. structure, land cover metabolism are underlined as key contributors city scale. Under question is which configurations make precincts microclimates...
The properties of human skin strongly depend on hydration. Skin friction, elasticity and roughness change significantly in the presence water. This paper presents a new bio-mimicking gelatine-based physical model that simulates frictional behaviour against widely-used standard textile under dry wet conditions over broad range applied normal load (0.5–5 N) amount water at interface (0–100 μl/cm2). proposed shows good agreement with both conditions. In addition, tensile Young's modulus surface...