The sustainable refurbishment of buildings is of increasing interest because existing building stock far outweighs new building stock in developed cities. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) represents a holistic means of measuring ...

This paper considers the fitness for purpose of the school buildings designed by William E. Kemp (1880-1896). It discusses the influence of their built form on the teaching, learning and activities that took place within ...

This paper addresses a problem that all educational institutions face. The validation of statements made about their graduates' attributes with regard to critical thinking, team skills, professional ethics etc. These ...

Extending the author’s recent work (2007) this paper advances the argument that, in significant ways, designers construct the problems they seek to solve. While it is generally taken as read that design problems are ...

The main contribution of this paper is an algorithm for autonomous search that minimizes the expected time for detecting multiple targets present in a known built environment. The proposed technique makes use of the ...

In an attempt to extend our understanding of the design process in the context of computational parametric design tools, this paper explores the relationship between and interaction of synthesis and evaluation. In establishing ...

A key concern of business is capability to implement strategy and deliver results. Aligned with this concern is increasing recognition that corporate delivery capability is highly dependent upon the governance and management ...

The general aim of this study was to compare outcomes from the studies entitled, "Analysis of Phenomenological perceptions of effectiveness of information technology in computerised maintenance management" (Clarke and ...

Within Australia, Gross Pollutant Traps (GPTs) have been installed in many stormwater drainage networks to improve the storm water quality before its discharge into receiving waters. These GPTs operate by filtering gross ...