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BROUGHT BY DEGREES: A FOCUS ON THE CURRENT INDICATORS OF LEAN ‘SMARTNESS’ IN SMART CITIES
(Chapter, 2021)The purpose of this paper is to look at the indicators to which a city can be considered to be a smart city based upon the degree it meets specific indicators within the categories of ‘Social Smartness’, ‘Technological ... -
Simplified wake modelling for wind farm load prediction
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper presents a simple numerical wind farm model, where pragmatic choices are made in the modelling of underlying physical processes, with the aim of making useful power production and wind turbine load estimates. ... -
Quantifying vertical profiles of biochemical traits for forest plantation species using advanced remote sensing approaches
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Biochemical traits in forest vegetation are key indicators of leaf physiological processes, specifically photosynthetic and other photochemical light pathways, and are critical to the quantification of the terrestrial ... -
Systematic investigation of data analysis methods in wave-ice interaction problem
(Chapter, 2020)Wave climate and extent of ice cover in the Arctic ocean have changed significantly in recent decades. Concomitantly, interest in studying wave-ice interaction has rapidly increased in the last two decades. Laboratory-scale ... -
Towards a zero-difference approach for homogenizing GNSS tropospheric products
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)A data homogenization method based on singular spectrum analysis (SSA) was developed and tested on real and simulated datasets. The method identifies abrupt changes in the atmospheric time series derived from Global ... -
Room semantics inference using random forest and relational graph convolutional networks: A case study of research building
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Semantically rich maps are the foundation of indoor location-based services. Many map providers such as OpenStreetMap and automatic mapping solutions focus on the representation and detection of geometric information (e.g., ... -
On the ice and wind conditions in the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia leading ice-induced vibrations
(Chapter, 2020)In ice infested regions drift ice can give serious damage to offshore structures and ships. The origin of the drifting ice is the winds and the currents. However, it is known that the Gulf of Bothnia does not have strong ... -
Exploring time-delay-based numerical differentiation using principal component analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Natural systems, including the dynamics of engineered structures, are often considered complex; hence, engineers employ different statistical methods to understand these systems better. Analyzing these systems usually ... -
Early contractor involvement (ECI): ways to do it in public projects
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Purpose Early contractor involvement (ECI) faces many barriers because it differs from traditional business practices. Public owners, especially, face a major challenge because they must comply with international and ... -
A collaborative project delivery method for design of a high-performance building
(Journal article, 2020)Purpose To achieve the shift towards sustainable construction the industry must change the project delivery methods used. Therefore, this paper reports on a high-performance building project that implemented a collaborative ... -
High-performance building projects: how to build trust in the team
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Trust is a prerequisite in all endeavours concerning uncertainty and interdependencies. By studying the development of a sustainable, high performing building this paper report on such an endeavour. The client implemented ... -
The influence of acclimatization, age and gender-related differences on thermal perception in university buildings: Case studies in Scotland and England
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Abstract The higher education sector in the UK is responsible for large amount of the country’s energy consumption. Space heating, which is the largest and most expensive part of the energy used in the UK educational ... -
Key challenges of climate change adaptation in the building sector
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper addresses the main challenges in climate resilience of the building sector, including climate adaptation schemes, energy efficiency, and mitigation approaches. These challenges are evaluated with regard to the ... -
Facility management role in stimulating happiness to mitigate the mental health risk
(Chapter, 2021)The article analyses the influence of the economic crisis on the occupational health and discusses the need for more proactive role of facility management (FM) to improve the mental health at the workplace. During the ... -
Influence of NaCl Aqueous Solution on Compacted Snow: Field Investigation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Slippery road surfaces are a threat to traffic safety, especially in winter when snow falling on roads forms a hard crust that is extremely difficult to remove. To prevent this hard crust formation, salt is applied to ... -
Robot-supervised Learning of Crop Row Segmentation
(Chapter, 2021)We propose an approach for robot-supervised learning that automates label generation for semantic segmentation with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for crop row detection in a field. Using a training robot equipped ... -
Volunteered Geographic Information Research in the First Decade: Visualizing and Analyzing the Author Connectedness of Selected Journal Articles in GIScience
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Volunteered geographic information (VGI) has been widely explored by researchers for decision support in various application domains because the data are cost-effective to collect and their richness in volume and spatiotemporal ... -
Registration of large-scale terrestrial laser scanner point clouds: A review and benchmark
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study had two main aims: (1) to provide a comprehensive review of terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) point cloud registration methods and a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses; and (2) to provide a ... -
Volunteered geographic information research in the first decade: a narrative review of selected journal articles in GIScience
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)More than 10 years have passed since the coining of the term volunteered geographic information (VGI) in 2007. This article presents the results of a review of the literature concerning VGI. A total of 346 articles published ... -
Quantification of Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion in Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Wind-driven rain (WDR) impact is a serious exposure that affects performance of the building envelope components and systems. This study presents results from a laboratory investigation of a testing methodology of WDR ...
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