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{"title":"Understanding processes on digital building permits – a case study in South Tyrol","authors":"J. Fauth, G. Pasetti Monizza, G. Malacarne","doi":"10.1080/09613218.2023.2178372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2023.2178372","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Building permitting plays a significant role in life cycles of buildings because without a building permit a legal construction fails. However, digitalization in building permit, authorities is rare in a global context and issuing a building permit is primarily a manual and time-consuming process. In current research approaches on digital building permits, the focus lays on the digitalization of building-related regulation checks. Even if the approaches cover an important step in the building permit process, other significant steps such as administrative processes are neglected. In preliminary research, a building permit process model for structuring action-oriented elements was developed and transferred and applied to a Building Information Modelling (BIM)-oriented and process-based web application prototype, which serves as a basis. An empirical study – using qualitative expert interviews in a building permit authority in South Tyrol (Italy) – was conducted to simulate a BIM-oriented building permit review as well as to investigate the building permit processes thoroughly. The results show a classification of the information needed for digital tools supporting the building permit process, building permit processes of the case study authority, and the digital tools used. In the discussion, knowledge gained from a comparison between other building permit processes is presented alongside considerations for follow-up research.","PeriodicalId":55316,"journal":{"name":"Building Research and Information","volume":"51 1","pages":"518 - 532"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42096328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The drivers of social procurement policy adoption in the construction industry: an Australian perspective","authors":"M. Loosemore, R. Keast, S. Alkilani","doi":"10.1080/09613218.2023.2180344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2023.2180344","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The construction industry is the primary focus for social procurement policies in many countries. However, there has been little research into the drivers of social procurement policy adoption in this industry. To help address this gap in research, this paper reports the results of semi-structured interviews with fifteen social procurement professionals who are implementing social procurement into the Australian construction industry. Results reveal interesting historical parallels with the implementation of environmental sustainability initiatives. However, social procurement has yet to become normalized. There appears to be a high level of homogeneity in industry practice and while there is considerable scope for innovation, this is constrained by the prescriptive and ‘top-down' nature of social procurement policies in Australia which make it difficult for organizations to respond ‘bottom-up’ to actual community needs. It is concluded that the considerable untapped potential of social procurement policies to create social value currently depends on the intrapreneurial efforts of a small number of emerging social procurement professionals who are individually challenging the many institutional norms and practices which undermine the implementation of these policies into the construction industry.","PeriodicalId":55316,"journal":{"name":"Building Research and Information","volume":"51 1","pages":"555 - 567"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42574762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationship between the design characteristics of activity-based flexible offices and users’ perceptions of privacy and social interactions","authors":"Melina Forooraghi, E. Miedema, Nina Ryd, H. Wallbaum, Maral Babapour Chafi","doi":"10.1080/09613218.2023.2180343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2023.2180343","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Activity-based flexible offices (AFOs) provide a variety of workspaces to meet the need for social interactions and privacy at work. This study investigates the relationship between the design characteristics of AFOs and users’ perceptions of visual and acoustic privacy and social interactions. This case study is based on post-occupancy evaluations in three AFO layouts at a public service organization in Sweden. A mixed-method approach is adopted that combines questionnaires and layout analysis. In general, the results showed that while aesthetics received the highest satisfaction scores, office functionality, task support, storage and visual and acoustic privacy received the lowest ratings. Key design characteristics for AFOs were operationalized, observed and exemplified: zone diversity, proportion, readability, spatial enclosure, sharing ratios and functionality of furniture and tools. These insights may contribute to better-informed decisions about the design characteristics that influence privacy and social interactions in AFOs.","PeriodicalId":55316,"journal":{"name":"Building Research and Information","volume":"51 1","pages":"588 - 604"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41641309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How prebound effects compromise the market premium for energy efficiency in German house sales","authors":"R. Galvin","doi":"10.1080/09613218.2023.2176284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2023.2176284","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent studies indicate that houses with higher energy efficiency usually have higher market prices, a ‘market premium for energy efficiency’. But in Germany the usefulness of this premium is confounded by the ‘prebound effect’: the gap between officially certificated energy ratings and actual energy consumption. Attempts have been made to close this gap from two complementary directions: downwards, by obtaining more accurate and less pessimistic technical estimates of idealised energy performance; and upwards, by estimating how much energy occupants realistically need for health and comfort. This study investigates prebound effects alongside an analysis of house prices in Germany, using a large database of house sale advertisements from 2007 to 2021, focusing on pre-1980 homes that were re-sold in 2019–2021. It uses ordinary least-squared multivariate regression to estimate market premiums for energy efficiency and sets these alongside estimates of prebound (and rebound) effects. It finds that prebound effects can lead purchasers to overestimate future energy savings and therefore pay more for properties than their actual worth. It also offers simple models to help purchasers interpret energy ratings more critically and estimate likely energy savings more realistically. Finally, it suggests how policymakers could modify energy ratings to reflect likely energy consumption more accurately.","PeriodicalId":55316,"journal":{"name":"Building Research and Information","volume":"51 1","pages":"501 - 517"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48070979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"NDT spatial data integration for monumental buildings: technical information management for the Royal Alcazar of Seville","authors":"Francisco M. Hidalgo-Sánchez, M. Torres-González, E. J. Mascort-Albea, J. Canivell, R. Romero-Hernández, J. J. Martín-del-Río","doi":"10.1080/09613218.2022.2162476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2022.2162476","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Non-destructive testing (NDT) for the diagnosis of heritage buildings has proved to be one of the most sustainable approaches in the field of preventive conservation. Nevertheless, the comprehensive management of NDT information is complex, often resulting in a poorly optimized use of the data. This contribution aims to propose a method for integrating NDT data in a standardized way into simplified digital information models, produced using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This method is applied to the plasterwork located in the Courtyard of the Maidens, which are elements with an enormous historic-artistic value in the Royal Alcazar of Seville (Spain), a significant UNESCO monument. For this purpose, a multi-scale web GIS-based model has integrated the NDT information from the plasterworks, such as ambient conditions, damage mapping, C-Shore Hardness, Superficial Humidity, Infrared thermography (IRT), Digital Image Processing (DIP) and Ground Penetration Radar (GPR). The combined georeferencing of the data from the various measurements and their simultaneous visualization has enabled the detection of vulnerable areas in the complex. The results are easily accessible for managers, and additionally show the analytical potential of the research approach, thereby allowing a quick diagnosis and hierarchization of tasks.","PeriodicalId":55316,"journal":{"name":"Building Research and Information","volume":"51 1","pages":"625 - 647"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46770622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the influencing factors of heritage building maintenance management: findings from developed and developing regions","authors":"M. Adegoriola, E. Yung, J. Lai, E. Chan, S. K. Yevu","doi":"10.1080/09613218.2023.2167698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2023.2167698","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Heritage buildings (HBs) have been identified as iconic buildings vital to sustainable development. Unlike modern buildings that can be maintained without conserving cultural significance, HBs are typically symbols of cultural identity that necessitate specific maintenance management. While effective HB maintenance is critical, research on the influencing factors (IFs) of HB maintenance management (HBMM) is limited. This study investigated IFs in developed and developing regions, namely Hong Kong (HK) and Nigeria, to fill this research gap. First, a systematic literature review was conducted, which resulted in the identification of 17 IFs. Then, a questionnaire survey was conducted to solicit maintenance practitioners’ opinions on the effects of the IFs on HBMM. The Mann–Whitney U test was used to identify commonalities and disparities among 154 valid survey responses. The findings reveal that while the respondents agreed on some IFs’ importance, including international statutory protection guiding HB use, they held divergent opinions about other IFs, which include cultural/religious attachment to HBs. This study revealed the distinctiveness between HK and Nigeria regarding the factors influencing HBMM and provided insights for future researchers to further explore the understudied areas of HBMM. The study’s recommended measures can also help to improve and inform HBMM policy-making.","PeriodicalId":55316,"journal":{"name":"Building Research and Information","volume":"51 1","pages":"605 - 624"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43362003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainable supplier selection for prefabricated megaprojects during COVID-19: a novel large group decision-making model","authors":"R. Liang, Rui Li, H. Chong","doi":"10.1080/09613218.2023.2165474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2023.2165474","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Prefabrication in construction has broad development prospects owing to its sustainability and strong support from the government. Prefabricated components, as the primary part of prefabrication megaprojects, affect the project completion and performance directly. Therefore, selecting appropriate prefabricated component sustainable suppliers (PCSSs) is a paramount task for the success of prefabricated megaprojects. This study expounds on the characteristics of PCSS selection from three aspects, namely the difference between prefabricated and traditional ones, sustainability requirements, and the impact of COVID-19, and indicates the issues that should be considered when choosing PCSS. An evaluation criterion is extracted and applied to the primary data from 4 PCSSs and 45 decision makers (DMs) of a prefabricated megaproject. Finally, a novel intuitionistic fuzzy large-group decision-making model is proposed. This model considers criterion weights and DM weights, as well as hesitation, ambiguity and consistency. The results indicate that the proposed model has strong robustness and can meet the decision-making needs of different DMs. The model extends the body of knowledge in the context of supply chain disruptions and digital bidding during the COVID-19 pandemic based on its more comprehensive criteria for the PCSS selection and new approaches for the weighting and uncertain evaluation throughout the decision-making process.","PeriodicalId":55316,"journal":{"name":"Building Research and Information","volume":"51 1","pages":"533 - 554"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45914524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cleanroom air quality: combined effects of ventilation rate and filtration schemes in a laboratory cleanroom","authors":"Mohammad Saleh Nikoopayan Tak, Arup Bhattacharya, A. Metcalf, E. Mousavi","doi":"10.1080/09613218.2022.2160299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2022.2160299","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ventilation performance and air quality in cleanrooms are affected by several interconnected parameters, and a change in one component can impact the entire system. Furthermore, occupant interactions with the physical environment can influence particle dispersion, disrupt current airflow by introducing new wakes and ultimately decrease ventilation efficacy. As a result, we set up an experimental study to measure the effects of traffic, flowrate and filtration on ventilation performance while a source of contamination was inside the room. Experiments included three types of occupant movements (i.e., NM, WO, WT) and were performed under two different airflow conditions. Three different metrics, namely relative ventilation efficiency ( ), decay rate (R) and exposure (γ), were introduced to statistically compare changes in ventilation performance in response to different experimental setups. Decay rates obtained for 0.3-micron particles decreased by up to 50% in the presence of occupants. Lowering cleanroom flowrate due to additional filtering can reduced ventilation effectiveness by almost 50%. Care should be exercised when changing filter efficiency because it can reduce the rate of air supply. These findings are especially intriguing in the context of cleanroom retrofit, as reducing air exchange rates was an unintended consequence of improving filter efficiency.","PeriodicalId":55316,"journal":{"name":"Building Research and Information","volume":"51 1","pages":"717 - 729"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45416963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"High-rise apartment quality evaluation and related demographic factors: lesson from RentSafeTO programme","authors":"Zhishan Zhong, Z. Gou","doi":"10.1080/09613218.2022.2162475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2022.2162475","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With the rapid increase in urbanization and the number of residents living in high-rise apartment buildings, the quality of living environments in terms of the facility, safety and hygiene of high-rise housing has become an important topic. Although numerous studies have investigated occupant satisfaction through subjective assessment, only few studies have used objective assessment methods, such as expert evaluation, to elucidate the quality of high-rise apartments and the related occupancy factors. According to the dataset from Toronto's RentSafeTO programme, which provides the results for 9928 high-rise apartments evaluated using 20 quality indicators, this study conducted a factor analysis and identified two main factors for assessing high-rise housing: building structure and building facilities. Furthermore, this study used multiple regression models and census data to analyse the housing quality at the regional level. The results of social housing and private housing differed. Labour force attributes, education, immigration and ethnic origin significantly affected the quality of private housing. The results provide important directions for the post-occupancy evaluation of high-rise apartments. In addition, demographic factors significantly affected residential quality. This study provides a basis for the government to formulate equal and unbiased support for high-rise building maintenance and management.","PeriodicalId":55316,"journal":{"name":"Building Research and Information","volume":"51 1","pages":"430 - 445"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59567617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards a circular transition of the built environment: systemic and transdisciplinary models, methods and perspectives","authors":"T. Kocaturk, M. Reza Hosseini","doi":"10.1080/09613218.2022.2155377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2022.2155377","url":null,"abstract":"The urgency of a transition to sustainable models of production and consumption is one of the most pressing challenges of our times. Among various models proposed, a transition to a circular economy offers workable solutions to catalyse developing and improving sustainability frameworks from material and system perspectives. In a nutshell, circular economy is defined as an industrial system which aims to gradually decouple economic growth from the consumption of finite resources through enhancing resource efficiency and designing waste out of systems (Ellen MacArthur Foundation). Having been dominated by a linear economic model (take-make-dispose) since the industrial revolution, the built environment is one of the world’s largest consumer of resources, a major producer of waste and a major culprit behind increasing CO2 emissions. Various industry reports already point out to the ample opportunities for businesses, governments, and cities through the adoption of circular economy approaches. These opportunities are similarly portable to a resource-intensive and high waste sector like the built environment. The built environment constitutes human-made buildings, built assets, and facilities viewed collectively as an environment in which we live and work. It is a highly complex social, ecological, and technical system that can be defined in various scales and levels – buildings, building stocks, neighbourhoods, cities, and regions – each with different time constants, actors and institutional regimes (McGrath & Lei, 2021). The built environment is also defined as an artefact in the overlapping zone between culture and nature, with causation occurring in both directions (Hassler & Kohler, 2014). This begs several questions, such as: what exactly circular economy can mean and imply for the built environment? How can we drive and implement its transition into a system which is regenerative by design? And an equally important question is how can we reconnect it to the broader natural and social systems that are fundamental to maintain it? Although the field has observed a growing awareness in recent years, there is no explicit formula as to how to develop, finance, procure, design, construct, operate, maintain, and repurpose services and assets to enable the desired transition. The now available literature has been concerned mostly with the ‘why’ and ‘what’ questions related to a circular transition for the built environment, whereas, the ‘how’ questions have received scant attention. Designing new biodegradable materials, or new building systems that can be dismantled and easily remanufactured into new products will not create a successful transition at the required level. That is because we currently do not have buy-in from key players and lack the supply chains and business models in place to close the material loops. In this regard, a circular built environment will not materialize through point solutions that target the collection of reused, recycl","PeriodicalId":55316,"journal":{"name":"Building Research and Information","volume":"51 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44095369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}