Innovative refurbishment strategies for poorly performing housing stock in Scotland, UK
Conference Proceeding
Bros-Williamson, J., Stinson, J., Reid, A., & Gravrand, D. (2016)
Innovative refurbishment strategies for poorly performing housing stock in Scotland, UK. In 41st IAHS WORLD CONGRESS Conference Proceedings
Scotland is currently increasing its housing stock at a rate of less than 1% per year. With 174,000 households registered on local authority waiting lists for new or improved ...
Digital Lighting for the Analogue Museum
Conference Proceeding
Innes, M. (2015)
Digital Lighting for the Analogue Museum. In PLDC 2015 Proceedings
Exhibition lighting in museums and galleries usually strives to render the true nature of the surface of the exhibits. This would normally include using light sources that pro...
Madlener House.
Other
Burton, K. (2015)
Madlener House. Chicago, USA
A work for violin and cello commissioned by Access Contemporary Music and the Chicago Architecture Foundation. The work explores the relationship between music and architectur...
External design data: Chapter 2 Environmental design: CIBSE Guide A
Other
Levermore, G., Dixon, J., Eames, M., Hanby, V., Junaidi, H., Muneer, T., …Virk, D. (2015)
External design data: Chapter 2 Environmental design: CIBSE Guide A
This chapter provides the basic weather and solar data required for manual calculation of heating and cooling loads in the UK and Europe. For building simulation purposes, hou...
Etched in the Memory.
Journal Article
Forster, A. M., Vettese-Forster, S., & Borland, J. (2015)
Etched in the Memory. RICS Building Conservation Journal, 28-29
Alan Forster, Samantha Vettese-Forster and John Borland explore the cultural value of preserving historic graffiti.
The place-based impact of built environments: Diabetes, living conditions, homes and neighbourhoods
Journal Article
Sidawi, B., Deakin, M., & Al-Hariri, M. T. A. (2016)
The place-based impact of built environments: Diabetes, living conditions, homes and neighbourhoods. Indoor and Built Environment, 25(3), 495-508. https://doi.org/10.1177/1420326x14556909
Abstract
Many studies have demonstrated the adverse effect built environments have on health and differentiated between their direct and indirect impacts. In the case of diabe...
An examination of the role of sound in defining the city in the context of Edinburgh
Journal Article
Vettese-Forster, S., Gowans, S., Case, J., & Maciej, K. (2014)
An examination of the role of sound in defining the city in the context of Edinburgh. European Academic Research, 1, 3218-3247
The surfeit of generic and place-specific sounds that exist in the urban environment contribute to what has been referred to as the soundscape. Within the built environment so...
Applicability of inventory methods for embodied energy assessment of buildings in Sub-Sahara Africa
Journal Article
Mpakati Gama, E., Wamuziri, S., & Sloan, B. (2011)
Applicability of inventory methods for embodied energy assessment of buildings in Sub-Sahara Africa. The Built and Human Environment Review, 4, 41-55
As the knowledge and understanding of environmental impacts associated with buildings increase, methods of assessing the impacts are also improving in building research. This ...
Solar radiation related climate change projections for the UK
Thesis
Tham, Y. W. Solar radiation related climate change projections for the UK. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4577
Estimation of hourly averaged solar irradiation: evaluation of models.
Journal Article
Tham, Y. W., Muneer, T., & Davison, B. (2010)
Estimation of hourly averaged solar irradiation: evaluation of models. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 31, 9-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143624409350547
Hourly solar radiation data are required in many building services applications. These are also reported in the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers Guides A &...