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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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Journal article
Published: 15 July 2021 in Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards
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Issues associated with tunnel construction and adjacent building damage risk are becoming increasingly important as cities expand and make more use of their underground space. A typical geotechnical engineering problem is how to determine the ground settlement susceptibility of buildings due to tunnelling excavations. A risk assessment, considering the analysis of several factors, is required for sustainable and resilient planning of urban areas and underground space. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been widely adopted for similar objectives, while AutoRegressive eXogenous modelling (ARX) as the dynamic component has the potential to produce the necessary analysis to underpin the assessment. Additionally, the database and visualisation capabilities of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) framework could provide a promising environment for accommodating such a risk assessment. The proposed methodology reported herein has employed a spatiotemporal analysis using AHP and ARX to produce analytical outcomes that involved several settlement-inducing criteria with respect to their severity and time-dependent groundwater table level changes, respectively. The integration of these analyses within the BIM framework has produced a tool that can define in detail the settlement vulnerability and building-damage assessments within a 3D geology-tunnel-buildings model. Highlights

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Stylianos Providakis; Chris D. F. Rogers; David N. Chapman. 3D spatiotemporal risk assessment analysis of the tunnelling-induced settlement in an urban area using analytical hierarchy process and BIM. Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards 2021, 1 -16.

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Stylianos Providakis, Chris D. F. Rogers, David N. Chapman. 3D spatiotemporal risk assessment analysis of the tunnelling-induced settlement in an urban area using analytical hierarchy process and BIM. Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards. 2021; ():1-16.

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Stylianos Providakis; Chris D. F. Rogers; David N. Chapman. 2021. "3D spatiotemporal risk assessment analysis of the tunnelling-induced settlement in an urban area using analytical hierarchy process and BIM." Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards , no. : 1-16.

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Published: 09 July 2021 in Sustainability
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The success of urban sustainability is very much dependent on a number of human factors. Therefore, it becomes even more important to explore how people understand urban sustainability and how they behave accordingly. Based on a formerly developed conceptual framework and on specified influencing factors, this study aimed to evaluate and elucidate the urban sustainability understanding and behavior of individuals in the city of Istanbul. This was assessed through the use of a quantitative questionnaire survey of 535 respondents. Therein, socio-psychological processes of sustainability understanding (i.e., determinants of awareness, perception, and attitude) and sustainability behaviors along with personality traits and influential factors were assessed and analyzed through the use of bivariate and multivariate methods (i.e., correlation tests, ANOVA, t-tests, and multiple linear regression). The results showed that sustainability awareness was more strongly correlated with attitude than perception, whereas behavior was found to be strongly correlated with both awareness and attitude and was (significantly) predicted by all determinants. The associations/influences of personality traits with determinants were found to be mostly insignificant. Conversely, for behavior, they were significant. The most influential factors found (in hierarchical ordering) were awareness of consequences, trust in society, social appraisement, world-mindedness, willingness to pay, trust in science and technology, ascription of responsibility, age and gender.

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Hasan Topal; Dexter Hunt; Christopher Rogers. Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7711 .

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Hasan Topal, Dexter Hunt, Christopher Rogers. Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (14):7711.

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Hasan Topal; Dexter Hunt; Christopher Rogers. 2021. "Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City." Sustainability 13, no. 14: 7711.

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Published: 01 June 2021 in Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
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Traffic congestion and air pollution continue to be serious concerns, especially in large cities, and going forward, this is not sustainable. Urban transport around the world is facing challenges, such as air pollution and inefficient use of resources, that often inhibit economic development. Simply building more roads cannot address such challenges. There is a need to integrate the urban infrastructure through smart connectivity. Smart mobility, as a vital cornerstone of a smart city, will potentially reduce traffic jams, commuting times, and road crashes and create an opportunity for passengers to customize their journeys. In fact, planning smart mobility solutions is among the top challenges for large cities around the world. It involves a set of deliberate actions backed by sophisticated technologies. The different elements and dimensions that characterize smart mobility are investigated to depict the overall picture surrounding the smart mobility domain. Additionally, the trends, opportunities, and threats inherent to smart mobility are addressed. There are four segments of smart mobility that are highlighted in this paper: intelligent transport systems, open data, big data analytics, and citizen engagement. These segments are all inter-related and play a crucial role in the successful implementation of smart mobility.

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Can Bıyık; Ahmad Abareshi; Alexander Paz; Rosa Ruiz; Rosaria Battarra; Christopher Rogers; Carmen Lizarraga. Smart Mobility Adoption: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2021, 7, 146 .

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Can Bıyık, Ahmad Abareshi, Alexander Paz, Rosa Ruiz, Rosaria Battarra, Christopher Rogers, Carmen Lizarraga. Smart Mobility Adoption: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. 2021; 7 (2):146.

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Can Bıyık; Ahmad Abareshi; Alexander Paz; Rosa Ruiz; Rosaria Battarra; Christopher Rogers; Carmen Lizarraga. 2021. "Smart Mobility Adoption: A Review of the Literature." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 7, no. 2: 146.

Review
Published: 18 March 2021 in Sustainability
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This paper reports on a systematic review of the literature around governance and water infrastructure in England to analyse data on the application, or absence, of justice themes. It finds that, unlike in other sectors, justice thinking is far from embedded in the water sector here and whilst there are signs of a discussion there is a lack of sophistication and coherence around the debate. More positively, the research suggests that the concept of justice can be used as a tool or framework to help air and address these complex issues and in doing so is an advance on the concept of sustainability. By exploring the issues in this way, the study reveals a wealth of opportunities to use justice-thinking to improve infrastructure decision making. It is suggested a justice approach is the next step as our thinking matures beyond sustainability, improving the decisions we make for people and planet.

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Elisabeth Shrimpton; Dexter Hunt; Chris Rogers. Justice in (English) Water Infrastructure: A Systematic Review. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3363 .

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Elisabeth Shrimpton, Dexter Hunt, Chris Rogers. Justice in (English) Water Infrastructure: A Systematic Review. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3363.

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Elisabeth Shrimpton; Dexter Hunt; Chris Rogers. 2021. "Justice in (English) Water Infrastructure: A Systematic Review." Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3363.

Review
Published: 22 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Social, environmental, and economic problems related to urban living have surpassed the agenda of policy and decision-makers as well as general public opinion in recent decades. To address urban and environmental issues, it is pivotal to examine how people think, feel, judge, and act with respect to sustainability. While some prominent theories exist and various attempts have been made to propose synthesized models, there are still gaps and discrepancies within the literature of environmental psychological theories. As such, the aim of this paper is to critically review the literature by focusing on a few of the most influential environmental, prosocial, and psychological behaviour theories, which include Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), Norm Activation Theory (NAT), Value-Belief-Norm Theory (VBN), and the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP). The Scopus database has been searched systematically for the relevant studies. This paper concludes that an integrative approach to urban sustainability understanding and behaviour is needed. A framework is presented that consists of three layers of clustered components: (1) internal socio-psychological determinants, (2) personality traits, and (3) influencing external factors such as social, cultural, economic, and institutional factors. The model proposed in the study provides opportunities to further develop theoretical approaches and establish new measures of an Urban Sustainability Understanding and Behaviour assessment.

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Hasan Topal; Dexter Hunt; Christopher Rogers. Exploring Urban Sustainability Understanding and Behaviour: A Systematic Review towards a Conceptual Framework. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1139 .

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Hasan Topal, Dexter Hunt, Christopher Rogers. Exploring Urban Sustainability Understanding and Behaviour: A Systematic Review towards a Conceptual Framework. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1139.

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Hasan Topal; Dexter Hunt; Christopher Rogers. 2021. "Exploring Urban Sustainability Understanding and Behaviour: A Systematic Review towards a Conceptual Framework." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1139.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2020 in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer
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Buried utilities are vital for the functioning of today's cities providing gas, water, electricity, broadband and the removal of sewage and surface water. Existing buried utility infrastructure has often been installed many tens of years ago and, in the UK, we still use Roman sewers and Victorian pipes, and these assets, and their locations, are often not well documented. However, accurate location of these underground assets greatly helps the replacement, rehabilitation and maintenance processes for existing services and is crucial for the installation of new buried facilities. Additionally, it has significant Health and Safety impacts by reducing the number of underground utility strikes, quite apart from reducing third party damage and the huge associated costs of the wider impacts (e.g. traffic delays, societal disruption) of utility streetworks. Around the world there are several standards and specifications which aim to provide guidance on utility surveys in order to provide the client with more confidence on the accuracy and repeatability of the results across the industry. The most recent development of such standards is PAS (Publicly Available Specification) 128 in the UK, which characterises the requirements for underground utilities detection, verification and location. This paper investigates the impact of PAS128 by comparing the results provided by different utility survey specialists for a trial site on the University of Southampton campus. The geophysical surveys were compared with proving excavations, which exposed the assets at a number of locations. The results showed that, although some differences were observed for drainage and electricity assets, overall the detection level of all companies was very good. The assessment also revealed that the definition of quality level QLB1 (P) needs to be reconsidered as it was not achieved in many places with respect to the vertical accuracy. It is suggested that any revisions of PAS128 consider differentiating between accuracy and confidence, as detection by multiple sensing technologies increases the confidence but not the accuracy as suggested by PAS128.

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Nicole Metje; Aryan Hojjati; Anthony Beck; Christopher D. F. Rogers. Improved underground utilities asset management – assessing the impact of the UK utility survey standard (PAS128). Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer 2020, 173, 218 -236.

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Nicole Metje, Aryan Hojjati, Anthony Beck, Christopher D. F. Rogers. Improved underground utilities asset management – assessing the impact of the UK utility survey standard (PAS128). Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer. 2020; 173 (4):218-236.

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Nicole Metje; Aryan Hojjati; Anthony Beck; Christopher D. F. Rogers. 2020. "Improved underground utilities asset management – assessing the impact of the UK utility survey standard (PAS128)." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer 173, no. 4: 218-236.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2020 in Sustainability
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Due to the increasing use of underground space to align with sustainability needs, geohazard risk assessments have become a valuable tool for decision-making. One common issue in relation to urban geohazard assessments relates to ground movements due to tunneling affecting adjacent buildings. A framework for assessing costs related to subsequent building damage, using integrated data, statistics and considering the uncertainties involved, is presented in this paper. The proposed methodology provides an integration of Monte Carlo simulations to support uncertainty estimations with an analysis for building-damage cost risk due to tunneling-induced settlements. The analysis involves analytical models using green-field conditions and a typically used building damage assessment method. BIM is capable of collating, combining and visualizing information with advanced analysis techniques into a risk-based tool. The resulting tool provides a clear way of assessing building-damage costs risk due to tunneling-induced settlements. This uses a BIM-based environment and incorporates 3D visualizations and an integrated analysis via MATLAB to reveal and highlight hazardous areas and the severity of economic risk along the tunneling route. This informs the need for additional ground investigations or secondary analyses to ensure engineering processes reduce or remove the risk of economic damage and advance sustainable decision-making.

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Stylianos Providakis; Chris Rogers; David Chapman. Assessing the Economic Risk of Building Damage due to the Tunneling-Induced Settlement Using Monte Carlo Simulations and BIM. Sustainability 2020, 12, 34 .

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Stylianos Providakis, Chris Rogers, David Chapman. Assessing the Economic Risk of Building Damage due to the Tunneling-Induced Settlement Using Monte Carlo Simulations and BIM. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (23):34.

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Stylianos Providakis; Chris Rogers; David Chapman. 2020. "Assessing the Economic Risk of Building Damage due to the Tunneling-Induced Settlement Using Monte Carlo Simulations and BIM." Sustainability 12, no. 23: 34.

Journal article
Published: 15 June 2020 in Journal of Applied Geophysics
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A critical assessment criterion for road condition assessment is the amount and severity of cracking. Cracking causes a loss of structural capacity (i.e. strength and stiffness) and if severe can cause water infiltration into the subbase and subgrade, potentially leading to more serious structural failure. The onset of cracking therefore accelerates the processes of deterioration of the road. To date the accurate and reliable automated detection of road surface cracking is still problematic. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) has the potential to detect cracks in materials as they cause changes in electromagnetic reflection. This paper proposes a method of automatic detection of road surface cracks using GPR and establishes the limits of its potential regarding the detectable crack size. Tests were conducted on asphalt pavement samples in a controlled laboratory environment. Significant changes in diffracted signal levels were observed in the GPR image when the image was analysed using a Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) algorithm for clutter reduction and a median filter to reduce noise. Moreover, a manifestly enhanced performance was achieved using a novel post-processing technique, which enabled the detection of cracks larger than 1.3 mm in width. The detected cracks were detectable irrespectively of the simulated physical conditions suggesting that the developed methodology is robust for use in practice. The experimental results indicate that the GPR system can be applied to automatically detect road cracking reliably in practice.

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Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan; Wenda Li; Nicole Metje; Michael Burrow; David N. Chapman; Christopher D.F. Rogers. Automated detection of cracks in roads using ground penetrating radar. Journal of Applied Geophysics 2020, 179, 104118 .

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Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan, Wenda Li, Nicole Metje, Michael Burrow, David N. Chapman, Christopher D.F. Rogers. Automated detection of cracks in roads using ground penetrating radar. Journal of Applied Geophysics. 2020; 179 ():104118.

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Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan; Wenda Li; Nicole Metje; Michael Burrow; David N. Chapman; Christopher D.F. Rogers. 2020. "Automated detection of cracks in roads using ground penetrating radar." Journal of Applied Geophysics 179, no. : 104118.

Review
Published: 08 June 2020 in Sustainability
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Urban Sustainability and Smartness Understanding (USSU) can be defined by a group of sociopsychological determinants (such as awareness, perception, attitude and behavior) which shapes the relationship between human beings and the environment in which they live. A variety of influencing factors must exist in relation to USSU, however, a comprehensive examination of these, looking at personal, social, environmental, economic, technical, and governance perspectives in an urban context, appear to be less well researched. As such this paper provides an exploratory and critical evaluation of the literature by focusing on the USSU determinants; with an aim toward identifying the key factors (and sub-factors) that are in relation with these determinants. Two big databases of Scopus and Web of Science—have been searched systematically for the relevant studies. Therein it is observed how these factors affect USSU according to the characteristics of the study. Sustainability focused studies were found to be more commonplace than smartness studies. Moreover, there is currently ambiguity in evaluating the impacts of the identified factors. This paper concludes that a holistic approach is needed for clarifying the relationship and causality between sociopsychological determinants on Urban Sustainability and Smartness context. A framework with six dimensions is presented to initiate future studies to develop a consistent; coherent and comprehensive methodology to assess an individuals’ USSU.

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Hasan Fehmi Topal; Dexter V.L. Hunt; Christopher D.F. Rogers. Urban Sustainability and Smartness Understanding (USSU)—Identifying Influencing Factors: A Systematic Review. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4682 .

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Hasan Fehmi Topal, Dexter V.L. Hunt, Christopher D.F. Rogers. Urban Sustainability and Smartness Understanding (USSU)—Identifying Influencing Factors: A Systematic Review. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (11):4682.

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Hasan Fehmi Topal; Dexter V.L. Hunt; Christopher D.F. Rogers. 2020. "Urban Sustainability and Smartness Understanding (USSU)—Identifying Influencing Factors: A Systematic Review." Sustainability 12, no. 11: 4682.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2020 in Infrastructure Asset Management
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Lewis O Makana; Nicole Metje; Ian Jefferson; Margaret Sackey; Chris D F Rogers. Cost estimation of utility strikes: towards proactive management of street works. Infrastructure Asset Management 2020, 7, 64 -76.

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Lewis O Makana, Nicole Metje, Ian Jefferson, Margaret Sackey, Chris D F Rogers. Cost estimation of utility strikes: towards proactive management of street works. Infrastructure Asset Management. 2020; 7 (2):64-76.

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Lewis O Makana; Nicole Metje; Ian Jefferson; Margaret Sackey; Chris D F Rogers. 2020. "Cost estimation of utility strikes: towards proactive management of street works." Infrastructure Asset Management 7, no. 2: 64-76.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2020 in Infrastructure Asset Management
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Michael E Goodfellow-Smith; Christopher D F Rogers; Miles R Tight. Infrastructure value maximisation: finance and insurance appraisal. Infrastructure Asset Management 2020, 7, 103 -110.

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Michael E Goodfellow-Smith, Christopher D F Rogers, Miles R Tight. Infrastructure value maximisation: finance and insurance appraisal. Infrastructure Asset Management. 2020; 7 (2):103-110.

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Michael E Goodfellow-Smith; Christopher D F Rogers; Miles R Tight. 2020. "Infrastructure value maximisation: finance and insurance appraisal." Infrastructure Asset Management 7, no. 2: 103-110.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2020 in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction
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Many of the specialisms upon which infrastructure and cities rely for their effective design, construction, operation, governance, management and maintenance are underpinned by the principles of certainty, accuracy, precision and prediction. Not least of these is civil engineering. Yet, infrastructures and cities are characterised by complexity and emergence. In recent decades, understandings of infrastructures and cities have begun to reflect these properties and, in particular, transdisciplinarity is promoted as critical to advancing these new understandings. However, this presents conceptual and operational challenges for civil engineering as there is a fundamental mismatch between the certainty, accuracy, and precision required by engineers and the complexity and emergence of transdisciplinary research approaches. The forms of value arising from these research approaches are themselves contentious, leaving engineers exposed to competing claims and making them ill-prepared to exploit new insights to full advantage. This briefing explores these mismatches and contentions and proposes a set of four principles that underpin successful transdisciplinary research, laying the foundation for transforming research in infrastructure and cities by leveraging emergent, transdisciplinary approaches.

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Joanne M Leach; Chris D F Rogers. Briefing: Embedding transdisciplinarity in engineering approaches to infrastructure and cities. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction 2020, 173, 19 -23.

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Joanne M Leach, Chris D F Rogers. Briefing: Embedding transdisciplinarity in engineering approaches to infrastructure and cities. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction. 2020; 173 (2):19-23.

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Joanne M Leach; Chris D F Rogers. 2020. "Briefing: Embedding transdisciplinarity in engineering approaches to infrastructure and cities." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction 173, no. 2: 19-23.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2020 in Infrastructure Asset Management
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Michael E Goodfellow-Smith; Christopher D F Rogers; Miles R Tight. Infrastructure value maximisation: overcoming the infrastructure valley of death. Infrastructure Asset Management 2020, 7, 95 -102.

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Michael E Goodfellow-Smith, Christopher D F Rogers, Miles R Tight. Infrastructure value maximisation: overcoming the infrastructure valley of death. Infrastructure Asset Management. 2020; 7 (2):95-102.

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Michael E Goodfellow-Smith; Christopher D F Rogers; Miles R Tight. 2020. "Infrastructure value maximisation: overcoming the infrastructure valley of death." Infrastructure Asset Management 7, no. 2: 95-102.

Journal article
Published: 12 April 2020 in Sustainability
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In Saudi Arabia, the carbon footprint and energy use that results from using concrete in construction is a major negative contributor to the environmental effects of building materials. Likewise, the impact of annual cooling and heating energy demands has an equally prominent role to play. These demands need to be assessed and benchmarked in order that reduction targets can be set. Saudi Arabia presents its own unique context and local conditions, which creates a challenge when utilizing generic frameworks for assessing the environmental impact of domestic buildings. In meeting this aim, this paper presents a resilience and environmental sustainability assessment framework (RESAF) developed specifically for domestic buildings in Saudi Arabia. RESAF helps designers/builders to minimize the carbon footprint of the building fabric and reduce in-use energy demands of domestic buildings in Saudi Arabia. This paper shows how this framework can be used to reduce, by approximately 23%, the carbon impact from construction materials, primarily by substituting a portion of cement for pulverized fly ash (PFA) or ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS). A reduction of 19% in annual cooling and heating energy demand were additionally achieved throughout the building’s life, simply by increasing insulation and using triple-glazed windows. The importance of passing these alternative solutions through the resilience filter is highlighted, not least questioning whether they are really fit-for-purpose.

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Mohammad S. M. Almulhim; Dexter V. L. Hunt; Chris D. F. Rogers. A Resilience and Environmentally Sustainable Assessment Framework (RESAF) for Domestic Building Materials in Saudi Arabia. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3092 .

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Mohammad S. M. Almulhim, Dexter V. L. Hunt, Chris D. F. Rogers. A Resilience and Environmentally Sustainable Assessment Framework (RESAF) for Domestic Building Materials in Saudi Arabia. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3092.

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Mohammad S. M. Almulhim; Dexter V. L. Hunt; Chris D. F. Rogers. 2020. "A Resilience and Environmentally Sustainable Assessment Framework (RESAF) for Domestic Building Materials in Saudi Arabia." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3092.

Journal article
Published: 10 April 2020 in Energies
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Successful transitioning to a circular economy city requires a holistic and inclusive approach that involves bringing together diverse actors and disciplines who may not have shared aims and objectives. It is desirable that stakeholders work together to create jointly-held perceptions of value, and yet cooperation in such an environment is likely to prove difficult in practice. The contribution of this paper is to show how collaboration can be engendered, or discord made transparent, in resource decision-making using a hybrid Game Theory approach that combines its inherent strengths with those of scenario analysis and multi-criteria decision analysis. Such a methodology consists of six steps: (1) define stakeholders and objectives; (2) construct future scenarios for Municipal Solid Waste Management; (3) survey stakeholders to rank the evaluation indicators; (4) determine the weights for the scenarios criteria; (5) reveal the preference order of the scenarios; and (6) analyse the preferences to reveal the cooperation and competitive opportunities. To demonstrate the workability of the method, a case study is presented: The Tyseley Energy Park, a major Energy-from-Waste facility that treats over two-thirds of the Municipal Solid Waste of Birmingham in the UK. The first phase of its decision-making involved working with the five most influential actors, resulting in recommendations on how to reach the most preferred and jointly chosen sustainable scenario for the site. The paper suggests a supporting decision-making tool so that cooperation is embedded in circular economy adoption and decisions are made optimally (as a collective) and are acceptable to all the stakeholders, although limited by bounded rationality.

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P. Giovani Palafox-Alcantar; Dexter V. L. Hunt; Chris D. F. Rogers. A Hybrid Methodology to Study Stakeholder Cooperation in Circular Economy Waste Management of Cities. Energies 2020, 13, 1845 .

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P. Giovani Palafox-Alcantar, Dexter V. L. Hunt, Chris D. F. Rogers. A Hybrid Methodology to Study Stakeholder Cooperation in Circular Economy Waste Management of Cities. Energies. 2020; 13 (7):1845.

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P. Giovani Palafox-Alcantar; Dexter V. L. Hunt; Chris D. F. Rogers. 2020. "A Hybrid Methodology to Study Stakeholder Cooperation in Circular Economy Waste Management of Cities." Energies 13, no. 7: 1845.

Conference paper
Published: 01 February 2020 in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability
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Joanne M Leach; Chris D F Rogers; Adriana Ortegon-Sanchez; Nick Tyler. The Liveable Cities Method: establishing the case for transformative change for a UK metro. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability 2020, 173, 8 -19.

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Joanne M Leach, Chris D F Rogers, Adriana Ortegon-Sanchez, Nick Tyler. The Liveable Cities Method: establishing the case for transformative change for a UK metro. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability. 2020; 173 (1):8-19.

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Joanne M Leach; Chris D F Rogers; Adriana Ortegon-Sanchez; Nick Tyler. 2020. "The Liveable Cities Method: establishing the case for transformative change for a UK metro." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability 173, no. 1: 8-19.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2020 in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability
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In preparation for this Call for Proposals, a workshop was held with representatives from the ICE’s Research, Development & Innovation towards Engineering Excellence Panel, academia, Innovate UK, ESPRC, Highways England and the consulting industry. The overarching theme that emerged was that infrastructure does not adequately take into account the value that could be gained from its long-term service provision. This has therefore been selected as an appropriate cross-cutting theme for the ‘Spring 2019 Call for Proposals for the ICE’s Research & Development Enabling Fund’. The findings from this R&D initiative are required to be presented at a half-day event, as well as to form the subject of papers and/or briefing to be published in relevant parts of the ICE Proceedings notes and other forms dissemination, thus ensuring that they are brought to the attention of the ICE’s members. The following is a summary of challenges that need to be embraced by the profession, as revealed by the workshop discussions.

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Anthony Hargreaves; Marianna Cavada; Christopher Rogers. Briefing: Engineering for the far future: rethinking the value proposition. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability 2020, 173, 3 -7.

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Anthony Hargreaves, Marianna Cavada, Christopher Rogers. Briefing: Engineering for the far future: rethinking the value proposition. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability. 2020; 173 (1):3-7.

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Anthony Hargreaves; Marianna Cavada; Christopher Rogers. 2020. "Briefing: Engineering for the far future: rethinking the value proposition." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability 173, no. 1: 3-7.

Review
Published: 25 November 2019 in Waste Management
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Circular economy principles aim to contribute towards sustainability and resilience through several simultaneous agendas including economic growth, social development and environmental responsibility. Stakeholders from each perspective have their own interests and priorities, which often result in conflict. There are several and varied methodologies which address the decision-making process, however in engineering spheres these techniques are usually limited to optimising resources, time or costs. Decisions that are comprehensive in scope and integrated across all affected systems are required to transition towards a circular economy, effective cross-disciplinary thinking is imperative and cooperation amongst diverse areas is essential. Game theory is a useful technique when analysing the interactions of stakeholders with multiple objectives and perspectives. This paper aims to critically review methodological approaches used in waste management practice and provide a guidance on how game theory differs from, and is complementary to, the primary decision-making tools available where cooperation is a feature too often missing. This review seeks to justify the development of game theory to complement waste management decision-making methods in civil engineering, where resource consumption and waste management is often voluminous. An application of game theory to a waste management example illustrates that this methodological approach is of complementary value. The contribution of this study to circular economy and solid waste agendas is to emphasise the capability of game theory to help facilitate conflict resolution, competition, and stakeholder consensus when capturing multiple (sometimes conflicting) values in line with circular economy principles.

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P.G. Palafox-Alcantar; D.V.L. Hunt; C.D.F. Rogers. The complementary use of game theory for the circular economy: A review of waste management decision-making methods in civil engineering. Waste Management 2019, 102, 598 -612.

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P.G. Palafox-Alcantar, D.V.L. Hunt, C.D.F. Rogers. The complementary use of game theory for the circular economy: A review of waste management decision-making methods in civil engineering. Waste Management. 2019; 102 ():598-612.

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P.G. Palafox-Alcantar; D.V.L. Hunt; C.D.F. Rogers. 2019. "The complementary use of game theory for the circular economy: A review of waste management decision-making methods in civil engineering." Waste Management 102, no. : 598-612.

Articles
Published: 15 October 2019 in Behaviour & Information Technology
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The term ‘smart cities’ is contested: its interpretation is becoming ever broader, often to accommodate commercial interests. Since cities are made up of individuals, all of whom are guided by their own world views and attitudes, the residual question is not ‘what should we do?’ but ‘how should we do it and how should we encourage and enable everyone to join in?’ By exploring the ways that gamification can be used to understand the effects of ‘smart initiatives’ on cities and their operation, it was concluded that gaming has considerable potential to affect individual and societal practices by profoundly influencing the gamers themselves, while technology and the game design itself play a central role to how gamification is implemented and used. This paper proposes one way of both creating cities to which citizens aspire and delivering a beneficial change in attitudes and behaviours to make such cities work. We propose that way-finding games should be developed as the most appropriate tools for participation. Designing such serious games with sustainability, resilience and liveability agendas in mind, encouraging widespread citizen participation as gamers, and taking cognisance of the outcomes would lead to both smarter citizens and smarter cities.

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M. Cavada; C. D. F. Rogers. Serious gaming as a means of facilitating truly smart cities: a narrative review. Behaviour & Information Technology 2019, 39, 695 -710.

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M. Cavada, C. D. F. Rogers. Serious gaming as a means of facilitating truly smart cities: a narrative review. Behaviour & Information Technology. 2019; 39 (6):695-710.

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M. Cavada; C. D. F. Rogers. 2019. "Serious gaming as a means of facilitating truly smart cities: a narrative review." Behaviour & Information Technology 39, no. 6: 695-710.

Short communication
Published: 11 October 2019 in Underground Space
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The subsurface space in urban areas is an important asset. However, the information available on this environment is relatively poor compared to above ground information. This paper proposes a Building Information Model (BIM) for underground applications as means to address this information gap. The creation and progressive update of BIM for a constructed artefact ensures that data on the structures is available and can be used throughout its lifetime. A BIM for underground applications integrates data on surface structures, such as buildings, and subsurface infrastructures, such as pipes, along with details of the surrounding ground, the associated soil and rock properties and groundwater regime into a single framework. This approach is demonstrated by applying it to trenchless construction operations, including a microtunnelling project for a new sewer. The data from this extended BIM concept can be interactively used with analysis packages to conduct risk assessments for new construction activities. It also shows how BIM for the Underground can be used throughout the planning, construction and post-construction stages of a project, and, importantly, how this information can be available for future projects.

ACS Style

David Chapman; Stylianos Providakis; Christopher Rogers. BIM for the Underground – An enabler of trenchless construction. Underground Space 2019, 5, 1 .

AMA Style

David Chapman, Stylianos Providakis, Christopher Rogers. BIM for the Underground – An enabler of trenchless construction. Underground Space. 2019; 5 (4):1.

Chicago/Turabian Style

David Chapman; Stylianos Providakis; Christopher Rogers. 2019. "BIM for the Underground – An enabler of trenchless construction." Underground Space 5, no. 4: 1.