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Dr. Peter Demian
Loughborough University

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Journal article
Published: 24 April 2021 in Fire
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As the possibility of safe escape is one of the most crucial aspects of a building’s fire safety features, understanding of human behaviour under fire conditions is important for a successful evacuation. Although most of today’s buildings are equipped with fire safety systems, a fire can still occur at anytime and anywhere in a building and have devastating consequences. In the last decade, researchers and practitioners have used information technology to assist with fire safety design and emergency management. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is an exemplar process whose underpinning digital technology has been helpful for fire safety design, simulation, and analysis, but there is a lack of research on how BIM-based models combined with agent-based simulations can help improve evacuation via effective navigation and wayfinding in high-rise residential buildings. Customising evacuation instructions based on BIM, simulation results and occupant location, and delivery of these bespoke instructions to occupants’ smartphones during a fire emergency is relatively novel and research is needed to realise the potential of this approach. Therefore, this study investigates how customised evacuation instructions delivered to each occupant in a high-rise residential building could result in a faster evacuation during a fire incident. The research adopted a case study building and used Pathfinder (agent-based evacuation simulation software) to simulate evacuation from this eleven-floor high-rise residential building in Cairo, Egypt. Constraining evacuees (simulated agents in Pathfinder) to take particular exit routes was used as a proxy for delivering customised evacuation instructions to actual evacuees. Simulation results show that, in general, allowing the use of lifts for the benefit of disabled occupants could lead to their misuse by able-bodied occupants; evacuees would attempt to use the first visible point of exit regardless of how crowded it is. With optimally customised instructions, the evacuation time was, on average, 17.6 min (almost 50%) shorter than when the occupant’s choice of egress route was simulated based on standard path planning factors such as route length, nearby crowds and visible hazards. With evacuation instructions sent via smartphones, occupants could exit more rapidly via alternative routes. Such bespoke instructions were shown to reduce the adverse effects of crowdedness and uneven distribution of occupants along vertical and horizontal evacuation routes on evacuation time.

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Michael Gerges; Peter Demian; Zulfikar Adamu. Customising Evacuation Instructions for High-Rise Residential Occupants to Expedite Fire Egress: Results from Agent-Based Simulation. Fire 2021, 4, 21 .

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Michael Gerges, Peter Demian, Zulfikar Adamu. Customising Evacuation Instructions for High-Rise Residential Occupants to Expedite Fire Egress: Results from Agent-Based Simulation. Fire. 2021; 4 (2):21.

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Michael Gerges; Peter Demian; Zulfikar Adamu. 2021. "Customising Evacuation Instructions for High-Rise Residential Occupants to Expedite Fire Egress: Results from Agent-Based Simulation." Fire 4, no. 2: 21.

Journal article
Published: 30 March 2021 in Infrastructures
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Many of the obstacles to effective delivery of rail projects (in terms of cost, time and quality) can be traced back to poor collaboration across complex design teams and supply chains. As in any infrastructure delivery process, it is important to make decisions collaboratively at an early design stage. Advanced systems such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can facilitate collaboration during the decision-making process and boost work efficiencies. Such potential benefits are not realised because the roles of BIM and GIS in facilitating collaboration are not clearly understood or articulated. This paper aims to identify and articulate collaboration requirements during the design stage of rail projects. To achieve this, a mixed-method approach was employed to examine the issues that hinder collaboration in rail projects. An online questionnaire was designed to assess the state-of-art in BIM and GIS, followed by fifteen follow-up face to face interviews with experts to identify collaboration issues and suggestions to overcome them. The research identified the main challenges to effective collaboration and provided suggestions to overcome them. The main challenges were managing information and a reluctance to use new collaboration technologies. The main solution which emerged from the data was to develop an original Collaborative Plan of Work (CPW). The developed CPW is tailored to rail projects and has been formulated by combining the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Plan of Work and the GRIP Stages (Governance for Railway Investment Projects). This comprehensive plan of work, which is uniquely collaboration-focused, is significant because it can be further developed to formulate a precise process model for collaboration during the design process of rail projects. Such a process can (for example) be configured into the workflow prescribed by a Common Data Environment.

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Sahar Kurwi; Peter Demian; Karen Blay; Tarek Hassan. Collaboration through Integrated BIM and GIS for the Design Process in Rail Projects: Formalising the Requirements. Infrastructures 2021, 6, 52 .

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Sahar Kurwi, Peter Demian, Karen Blay, Tarek Hassan. Collaboration through Integrated BIM and GIS for the Design Process in Rail Projects: Formalising the Requirements. Infrastructures. 2021; 6 (4):52.

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Sahar Kurwi; Peter Demian; Karen Blay; Tarek Hassan. 2021. "Collaboration through Integrated BIM and GIS for the Design Process in Rail Projects: Formalising the Requirements." Infrastructures 6, no. 4: 52.

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Published: 16 February 2021 in Sustainability
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‘Smart cities’ are a new type of city where stakeholders are jointly responsible for urban management. City Information Management (CIM) is an output tool for smart city planning and management, which assists in achieving the sustainable development of urban infrastructure, and promotes smart cities to achieve the goals of stable global economic development, sustainable environmental development, and improvement of people’s quality of life. Existing research has so far established that blockchain and BIM have great potential to enhance construction project performance. However, there is little research on how blockchain and BIM can support sustainable building design and construction. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore the potential impact of the integration of blockchain and BIM in a smart city environment on making buildings more sustainable within the context of CIM/Smart Cities. The paper explores the relationships between blockchain, BIM and sustainable building across the life cycle stage of a construction project. This paper queries the Web of Science (WoS) database with keywords to obtain relevant publication, and then uses the VOSviewer to visually analyze the relationships between blockchain, BIM, and sustainable building within the context of smart cities and CIM, which is conducted in bibliometric analysis followed by micro scheme analysis. The results demonstrate the value of this method in gauging the importance of these three topics, highlighting their interrelationships and identifying trends, giving researchers an objective research direction. Those aspects reported in the paper constitute an original contribution.

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Zhen Liu; Ziyuan Chi; Mohamed Osmani; Peter Demian. Blockchain and Building Information Management (BIM) for Sustainable Building Development within the Context of Smart Cities. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2090 .

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Zhen Liu, Ziyuan Chi, Mohamed Osmani, Peter Demian. Blockchain and Building Information Management (BIM) for Sustainable Building Development within the Context of Smart Cities. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):2090.

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Zhen Liu; Ziyuan Chi; Mohamed Osmani; Peter Demian. 2021. "Blockchain and Building Information Management (BIM) for Sustainable Building Development within the Context of Smart Cities." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2090.

Journal article
Published: 26 June 2019 in Electronics
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At present, sustainable design is experiencing energy consumption and cost-effectiveness challenges in the building industry. A recent body of literature argues that the development of emerging smart digital technologies, such as Building Information Management (BIM) and blockchain (BC), offer immediate benefits to the industry. However, the current application of BIM and BC in the sustainable design and construction process focuses on smart energy and construction management, with little attention to addressing challenges for applying BIM to sustainable design and proposing strategies in terms of the usability of these technologies in the management of building construction projects. Therefore, this paper sets out to explore the potential roles of an integrated BIM and BC approach for sustainable building design information management. The first attempt is presented to use BC aided BIM for sustainable building design coordination and collaboration in multiple building stages. BC has the potential to address challenges that hinder the industry from using BIM for sustainable design, which has been unearthed. An innovative BC enhanced transaction process in BIM is required for sustainable building development. Roles of a user level driven smart contract system of BC can be used to enhance BIM system in the sustainable buildings process. The role of BC is primarily at user level driven smart contracts and their record value exchange capabilities. A user level (BIM stakeholders) driven BC technology for transaction in BIM process flow is revealed, and the user level (sustainable building design project stakeholders/BIM clients) driven and the smart contract enabled BIM+ BC architecture to address challenges of BIM for sustainable design has been further circulated according to the literature. Subsequently, a conceptual architecture of BIM + BC for Sustainable Building Design Information Management Framework in building project management has been proposed, validated, and refined. The Framework has two level encompassing structures and flow. The high-level framework is focused on strategy, whilst the low-level framework demonstrates technical components in detail. This architecture supporting project stakeholders in managing information, has the potential to achieve and ensure the realization of sustainable design goals through the interactive realization of smart contracts integrated into the user level driven BIM + BC system and its recording value exchange function through three user-driven levels, namely user, system, and transaction.

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Zhen Liu; Lijun Jiang; Mohamed Osmani; Peter Demian. Building Information Management (BIM) and Blockchain (BC) for Sustainable Building Design Information Management Framework. Electronics 2019, 8, 724 .

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Zhen Liu, Lijun Jiang, Mohamed Osmani, Peter Demian. Building Information Management (BIM) and Blockchain (BC) for Sustainable Building Design Information Management Framework. Electronics. 2019; 8 (7):724.

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Zhen Liu; Lijun Jiang; Mohamed Osmani; Peter Demian. 2019. "Building Information Management (BIM) and Blockchain (BC) for Sustainable Building Design Information Management Framework." Electronics 8, no. 7: 724.

Journal article
Published: 29 May 2019 in Electronics
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There is a lack of decision-making tools for water efficiency design and construction to maximize project benefits and water conservation. An increasing number of research studies indicate that building information modelling (BIM) can enhance the cooperation, improve work efficiency, and conduct simulation and analysis of sustainability performance in building projects. However, BIM’s potential to enhance water efficiency is yet to be established, such as water gird design optimization, clash detection, combination of BIM with smart appliances and sensors. The research adopted a mixed method approach to investigate the potential impact of BIM on water efficiency in building projects. It involved 50 practitioners from the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry through a questionnaire survey and the follow-up interviews. The quantitative results of questionnaire data and qualitative results of interviews were used to develop a “BIM-based Water Efficiency (BWe) Framework” which was subsequently validated by five experienced practitioners and researchers in the form of semi-structured interviews. The framework applies BIM to optimize traditional water efficiency measures based on an information database. The geometry, attributes, status information of building components or non-component objects stored in the database greatly improve information integration degree of construction engineering. This study provided a reference for the use of BIM for water conservation in building design and construction.

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Zhen Liu; Chao Zhang; Yuanxiang Guo; Mohamed Osmani; Peter Demian. A Building Information Modelling (BIM) based Water Efficiency (BWe) Framework for Sustainable Building Design and Construction Management. Electronics 2019, 8, 599 .

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Zhen Liu, Chao Zhang, Yuanxiang Guo, Mohamed Osmani, Peter Demian. A Building Information Modelling (BIM) based Water Efficiency (BWe) Framework for Sustainable Building Design and Construction Management. Electronics. 2019; 8 (6):599.

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Zhen Liu; Chao Zhang; Yuanxiang Guo; Mohamed Osmani; Peter Demian. 2019. "A Building Information Modelling (BIM) based Water Efficiency (BWe) Framework for Sustainable Building Design and Construction Management." Electronics 8, no. 6: 599.

Book chapter
Published: 08 May 2017 in Advances in Construction ICT and e-Business
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George Charalambous; Peter Demian; Steven Yeomans; Tony Thorpe. Impact of collaboration tools and shaping the future of data exchange – A model for BIM communication waste. Advances in Construction ICT and e-Business 2017, 213 -244.

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George Charalambous, Peter Demian, Steven Yeomans, Tony Thorpe. Impact of collaboration tools and shaping the future of data exchange – A model for BIM communication waste. Advances in Construction ICT and e-Business. 2017; ():213-244.

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George Charalambous; Peter Demian; Steven Yeomans; Tony Thorpe. 2017. "Impact of collaboration tools and shaping the future of data exchange – A model for BIM communication waste." Advances in Construction ICT and e-Business , no. : 213-244.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2015 in Automation in Construction
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Automation in Construction and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2015.07.020At present, there are insufficient design decision making tools to support effective construction waste minimisation evaluation and implementation throughout all design stages. A limited but growing body of recent literature suggests that building information modelling has the potential to assist architects to minimise design waste on their projects. The research reported in this paper is the first attempt to develop a design decision making framework for improving construction waste minimisation performance through building information modelling. The potential use of building information modelling to drive out construction waste in building design was investigated through a questionnaire survey and follow-up interview with the top 100 architectural practices in the United Kingdom. An industry-reviewed 'building information modelling-aided construction waste minimisation framework' was developed based on the results of the literature review, questionnaire data, and interview data. The Framework is intended to act as an integrated platform for designing out waste decision making, by providing informed building information modelling-driven guidance to address waste causes throughout design stages

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Zhen Liu; Mohamed Osmani; Peter Demian; Andrew Baldwin. A BIM-aided construction waste minimisation framework. Automation in Construction 2015, 59, 1 -23.

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Zhen Liu, Mohamed Osmani, Peter Demian, Andrew Baldwin. A BIM-aided construction waste minimisation framework. Automation in Construction. 2015; 59 ():1-23.

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Zhen Liu; Mohamed Osmani; Peter Demian; Andrew Baldwin. 2015. "A BIM-aided construction waste minimisation framework." Automation in Construction 59, no. : 1-23.

Journal article
Published: 09 September 2014 in Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate in-depth the current approach of managing client requirements in construction and to highlight the significant factors, which contribute to the complexity of managing the requirements in order to define a better approach. Design/methodology/approach – A case study of a leading international global built asset and engineering consultancy organization was conducted over two years. The case study was conducted principally using semi-participant observations supplemented with other qualitative data collection methods (i.e. interviews, questionnaires and document analysis). Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. Findings – The results highlight major factors associated with the complexity of managing client requirements information, which include: mechanisms for documentation, storage and access, distribution of requirements information between stakeholders and across lifecycle phases of a project, traceability management and the provision of effective change management incorporating dependency checking and impact analysis. Research limitations/implications – The main limitation of the research is the use of an in-depth study of a single organization, which applied the same project management method across all the projects they managed. Further work is planned to develop the proposed framework fully, and develop a software platform to operationalize and evaluate its industrial applicability with construction projects. Practical implications – The implications of this research is that a better approach to managing requirements information is needed, which will facilitate the design, construction and operations of buildings within budget and time. An integrated framework and an associated tool are suggested to implement the approach. Originality/value – This study identifies major research gaps and problems in the architecture, engineering, construction and facilities management industry; proposes and presents Electronic Requirements Information Management framework to facilitate lifecycle management of the requirements.

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Abdou Karim Jallow; Peter Demian; Andrew N. Baldwin; Chimay Anumba. An empirical study of the complexity of requirements management in construction projects. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 2014, 21, 505 -531.

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Abdou Karim Jallow, Peter Demian, Andrew N. Baldwin, Chimay Anumba. An empirical study of the complexity of requirements management in construction projects. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. 2014; 21 (5):505-531.

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Abdou Karim Jallow; Peter Demian; Andrew N. Baldwin; Chimay Anumba. 2014. "An empirical study of the complexity of requirements management in construction projects." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 21, no. 5: 505-531.

Papers
Published: 08 April 2013 in Construction Management and Economics
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As building information modelling (BIM) is positioned by governments and construction professionals as a solution to the problems in the construction industry, research is needed into the benefits BIM actually confers. The focus here is on the effectiveness of BIM as a medium for communicating information within a construction team. A case study of an offsite precast concrete fabrication facility was conducted. At the time of the study, the facility was supplying precast units for four public sector projects, and using four information management systems: e-mail, a construction project extranet tool, an Enterprise Resource Planning system and a new BIM-based system. The flow of information through the four media was measured and visualized as the projects progressed. This quantitative measurement of information flow was combined with qualitative data from interviews with facility staff. It was found that the introduction of the BIM-based system diverted information flow through the building model and away from the extranet system. The use of e-mail was largely unaffected. BIM allowed considerably more accurate, on-time and appropriate exchange of information. It is concluded it is possible to quantify some of the benefits of BIM to information management. This research paves the way for future research into the management of more construction project information linked more closely to building models.

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Peter Demian; David Walters. The advantages of information management through building information modelling. Construction Management and Economics 2013, 32, 1153 -1165.

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Peter Demian, David Walters. The advantages of information management through building information modelling. Construction Management and Economics. 2013; 32 (12):1153-1165.

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Peter Demian; David Walters. 2013. "The advantages of information management through building information modelling." Construction Management and Economics 32, no. 12: 1153-1165.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2012 in Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
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Information about the design and construction of buildings can be structured in a particular way. This is especially correct given the increasing complexity of building product models and the emergence of building information models with project documents linked to them. In addition, engineers usually have distinct information needs. Research shows that engineers working with building information models place particular importance on the understanding of retrieved content before using it or applying it and that exploration of context is essential for this understanding. Both these factors (the nature of engineering content and the information needs of engineers) make general information retrieval techniques for computing relevance and visualizing search results less applicable in civil engineering information retrieval systems. This paper argues that granularity is a fundamental concept that needs to be considered when measuring relevance and visualizing search results in information retrieval systems for repositories of building design and construction content. It is hypothesized that the design of systems with careful regard for granularity would improve engineers’ relevance judgment behavior. To test this hypothesis, a prototype system, called CoMem-XML, was developed and evaluated in terms of the time needed for users to find relevant information, the accuracy of their relevance judgment, and their subjective satisfaction with the prototype. A user study was conducted in which test subjects were asked to complete tasks by using various forms of the prototype, to complete a satisfaction questionnaire, and to be interviewed. The findings show that users perform better and are more satisfied when the search result interface of the CoMem-XML system presents only relevant information in context. On the other hand, interfaces that present the retrieved information out of context (i.e., without highlighting its position in the parts hierarchy) are less effective for participants to judge relevance.

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Peter Demian; Panos Balatsoukas. Information Retrieval from Civil Engineering Repositories: Importance of Context and Granularity. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering 2012, 26, 727 -740.

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Peter Demian, Panos Balatsoukas. Information Retrieval from Civil Engineering Repositories: Importance of Context and Granularity. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 2012; 26 (6):727-740.

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Peter Demian; Panos Balatsoukas. 2012. "Information Retrieval from Civil Engineering Repositories: Importance of Context and Granularity." Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering 26, no. 6: 727-740.

Conference paper
Published: 10 September 2012 in Proceedings of the 2012 (3rd) International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Production Management
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George Charalambous; Peter Demian; Steven Yeomans; Tony Thorpe; Chris Peters; Nathan Doughty; Asite Solutions. BIM and Online Collaboration Platforms – An investigation into emerging requirements. Proceedings of the 2012 (3rd) International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Production Management 2012, 1 .

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George Charalambous, Peter Demian, Steven Yeomans, Tony Thorpe, Chris Peters, Nathan Doughty, Asite Solutions. BIM and Online Collaboration Platforms – An investigation into emerging requirements. Proceedings of the 2012 (3rd) International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Production Management. 2012; ():1.

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George Charalambous; Peter Demian; Steven Yeomans; Tony Thorpe; Chris Peters; Nathan Doughty; Asite Solutions. 2012. "BIM and Online Collaboration Platforms – An investigation into emerging requirements." Proceedings of the 2012 (3rd) International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Production Management , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2012 in Engineering Education
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Peter Demian; James Morrice. The use of virtual learning environments and their impact on academic performance. Engineering Education 2012, 7, 11 -19.

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Peter Demian, James Morrice. The use of virtual learning environments and their impact on academic performance. Engineering Education. 2012; 7 (1):11-19.

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Peter Demian; James Morrice. 2012. "The use of virtual learning environments and their impact on academic performance." Engineering Education 7, no. 1: 11-19.

Journal article
Published: 15 December 2010 in Engineering Education
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Jonathan Adams; Stefan Kaczmarczyk; Phil Picton; Peter Demian. Problem solving and creativity in engineering: conclusions of a three year project involving reusable learning objects and robots. Engineering Education 2010, 5, 4 -17.

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Jonathan Adams, Stefan Kaczmarczyk, Phil Picton, Peter Demian. Problem solving and creativity in engineering: conclusions of a three year project involving reusable learning objects and robots. Engineering Education. 2010; 5 (2):4-17.

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Jonathan Adams; Stefan Kaczmarczyk; Phil Picton; Peter Demian. 2010. "Problem solving and creativity in engineering: conclusions of a three year project involving reusable learning objects and robots." Engineering Education 5, no. 2: 4-17.

Conference paper
Published: 01 November 2010 in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Management, Procurement and Law
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There is plenty of recognition of the need for more innovation in the construction sector. Increasing levels of competition, rapid technological and regulatory change, the current economic climate and environmental concern all accentuate this requirement. In response, many construction firms are seeking ways to manage innovation more actively and conscientiously in order to remain competitive. However, there is little practical guidance for construction professionals on how to make innovation flourish in their teams. Those who aspire to improve the management of innovation will need to understand how innovation happens, what are the driving forces and how can they be influenced. This paper reports on an empirical investigation that was undertaken to explore some of these questions, specifically the role of organisational climate, customers, risk and complexity on the levels of innovation in teams and the various modes of innovation that prevail – with the aim of providing practitioners with clearer guidance on where efforts should be focused. The findings suggest that there are a limited number of fundamental factors that significantly influence innovation magnitude and mode. For industry professionals it is hoped that this stimulates debate and assists in establishing a much needed foundation for improved innovation management in construction. There is plenty of recognition of the need for more innovation in the construction sector. Increasing levels of competition, rapid technological and regulatory change, the current economic climate and environmental concern all accentuate this requirement. In response, many construction firms are seeking ways to manage innovation more actively and conscientiously in order to remain competitive. However, there is little practical guidance for construction professionals on how to make innovation flourish in their teams. Those who aspire to improve the management of innovation will need to understand how innovation happens, what are the driving forces and how can they be influenced. This paper reports on an empirical investigation that was undertaken to explore some of these questions, specifically the role of organisational climate, customers, risk and complexity on the levels of innovation in teams and the various modes of innovation that prevail – with the aim of providing practitioners with clearer guidance on where efforts should be focused. The findings suggest that there are a limited number of fundamental factors that significantly influence innovation magnitude and mode. For industry professionals it is hoped that this stimulates debate and assists in establishing a much needed foundation for improved innovation management in construction.

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Nicholas Shaw; Dino Bouchlaghem; Peter Demian. Key influences of innovation magnitude and mode. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Management, Procurement and Law 2010, 163, 161 -169.

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Nicholas Shaw, Dino Bouchlaghem, Peter Demian. Key influences of innovation magnitude and mode. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Management, Procurement and Law. 2010; 163 (4):161-169.

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Nicholas Shaw; Dino Bouchlaghem; Peter Demian. 2010. "Key influences of innovation magnitude and mode." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Management, Procurement and Law 163, no. 4: 161-169.

Conference paper
Published: 01 June 2009 in Structures Buildings
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From early 2005 up to the freeze induced by the world's faltering financial markets during the first quarter of 2008, Britain experienced a demand for tall buildings of an unprecedented high level: in London alone, ten tall buildings have started, or were due to start on site, between the first quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2008. This is directly comparable in size with America's Manhattan Island skyscraper boom of the 1920s. The objectives of this paper are: first, to investigate the evolution of the UK tall building and determine the reasons behind this building form's growth at unprecedented rates; second, to define the UK tall building and compare it with the international tall building stage; third, to analyse the differing types of demand and categorise these subsectors of the UK tall building market; fourth, to calculate the size and value of this specialist construction market in the UK and forecast its growth potential; and finally, to analyse the latest negative market developments during 2008 and warn of the current match of the UK tall building market to the Skyscraper Index model and the resulting risk of full-blown economic recession. From early 2005 up to the freeze induced by the world's faltering financial markets during the first quarter of 2008, Britain experienced a demand for tall buildings of an unprecedented high level: in London alone, ten tall buildings have started, or were due to start on site, between the first quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2008. This is directly comparable in size with America's Manhattan Island skyscraper boom of the 1920s. The objectives of this paper are: first, to investigate the evolution of the UK tall building and determine the reasons behind this building form's growth at unprecedented rates; second, to define the UK tall building and compare it with the international tall building stage; third, to analyse the differing types of demand and categorise these subsectors of the UK tall building market; fourth, to calculate the size and value of this specialist construction market in the UK and forecast its growth potential; and finally, to analyse the latest negative market developments during 2008 and warn of the current match of the UK tall building market to the Skyscraper Index model and the resulting risk of full-blown economic recession.

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I. R. Skelton; Peter Demian; D. Bouchlaghem. Britain's tall building boom: now bust? Structures Buildings 2009, 162, 161 -168.

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I. R. Skelton, Peter Demian, D. Bouchlaghem. Britain's tall building boom: now bust? Structures Buildings. 2009; 162 (3):161-168.

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I. R. Skelton; Peter Demian; D. Bouchlaghem. 2009. "Britain's tall building boom: now bust?" Structures Buildings 162, no. 3: 161-168.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2009 in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Panos Balatsoukas; Peter Demian. Effects of granularity of search results on the relevance judgment behavior of engineers: Building systems for retrieval and understanding of context. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2009, 61, 453 -467.

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Panos Balatsoukas, Peter Demian. Effects of granularity of search results on the relevance judgment behavior of engineers: Building systems for retrieval and understanding of context. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2009; 61 (3):453-467.

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Panos Balatsoukas; Peter Demian. 2009. "Effects of granularity of search results on the relevance judgment behavior of engineers: Building systems for retrieval and understanding of context." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61, no. 3: 453-467.

Journal article
Published: 18 September 2008 in Research in Engineering Design
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Improving and supporting the process of design knowledge reuse can increase productivity, improve the quality of designs and lead to corporate competitive advantage. Whereas internal knowledge reuse (reusing knowledge from one’s personal memory or experiences) is very effective, external knowledge reuse (reusing knowledge from an external digital or paper archive) often fails. This paper studies the value of the storytelling paradigm in supporting reuse from an external repository. Based on a formalisation of the internal reuse process from ethnographic studies, a prototype system, Corporate Memory (CoMem) is presented, which supports the reuse process, specifically the steps of finding and understanding reusable items. This paper focuses on the ability of designers to understand designs that are found in corporate repositories. It is argued that in order to understand and reuse a found design, the designer needs to see the evolution of that design during the original design process. An Evolution History Explorer module of the CoMem system is presented that uses a storytelling metaphor and lays out versions visually side-by-side. A formal user evaluation of CoMem supports the hypotheses that (1) exploring the evolution of a design improves the reuse process, and (2) that visual storytelling is an effective paradigm for supporting that exploration.

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Peter Demian; Renate Fruchter. Effective visualisation of design versions: visual storytelling for design reuse. Research in Engineering Design 2008, 19, 193 -204.

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Peter Demian, Renate Fruchter. Effective visualisation of design versions: visual storytelling for design reuse. Research in Engineering Design. 2008; 19 (4):193-204.

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Peter Demian; Renate Fruchter. 2008. "Effective visualisation of design versions: visual storytelling for design reuse." Research in Engineering Design 19, no. 4: 193-204.

Conference paper
Published: 01 July 2008 in PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology
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Recognising the growing importance of design at a national level, this paper reports on the development of a suite of measures relating to national design performance. These measures are based around a simplified model of design as a system at a national level, developed through a workshop with government, industry and design sector representatives. Detailed data on design in the UK is presented to highlight the difficulties in collecting reliable and robust data. Evidence is compared with four countries (Spain, Canada, South Korea and Sweden). This comparison highlights the inherent difficulties in comparing performance and a revised set of measures is proposed.

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Cecilia Malvido; James Moultrie; Finbarr Livesey; Kul Pawar; Johann Riedel; Ahmad Beltagui; Jillian Macbryde; Verónica Martínez; Steve Evans; Bill Nixon; Peter Demian. Towards a national design scoreboard: A model to enable comparison of performance between countries. PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology 2008, 126 -137.

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Cecilia Malvido, James Moultrie, Finbarr Livesey, Kul Pawar, Johann Riedel, Ahmad Beltagui, Jillian Macbryde, Verónica Martínez, Steve Evans, Bill Nixon, Peter Demian. Towards a national design scoreboard: A model to enable comparison of performance between countries. PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology. 2008; ():126-137.

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Cecilia Malvido; James Moultrie; Finbarr Livesey; Kul Pawar; Johann Riedel; Ahmad Beltagui; Jillian Macbryde; Verónica Martínez; Steve Evans; Bill Nixon; Peter Demian. 2008. "Towards a national design scoreboard: A model to enable comparison of performance between countries." PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology , no. : 126-137.

Book chapter
Published: 21 January 2008 in Knowledge Management in Construction
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The prelims comprise: Introduction Research methodology Related research Tacit knowledge capture, sharing and reuse Tacit and explicit knowledge capture, sharing and reuse Conclusions

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Renate Fruchter; Peter Demian. Corporate Memory. Knowledge Management in Construction 2008, 170 -194.

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Renate Fruchter, Peter Demian. Corporate Memory. Knowledge Management in Construction. 2008; ():170-194.

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Renate Fruchter; Peter Demian. 2008. "Corporate Memory." Knowledge Management in Construction , no. : 170-194.

Journal article
Published: 06 August 2007 in Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
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Architecture, engineering, and construction team members, while collaborating on building projects, rely on past experiences and content through the use of project design archives (whether in paper or digital format). Underutilization of potential knowledge in the decision-making process of data, information, and knowledge reuse is limited by access to these archives, because of sheer size, decontextualized content, and inconvenient access and presentation. This paper presents an integrated solution called CoMem–iRoom that leverages two technologies Corporate Memory (CoMem) and interactive Room (iRoom) developed at Stanford. CoMem–iRoom addresses critical limitations (content, context, visualization, and interactivity) constraining the process of collaborative exploration toward knowledge reuse and decision making.

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Renate Fruchter; Kushagra Saxena; Matt Breidenthal; Peter Demian. Collaborative design exploration in an interactive workspace. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing 2007, 21, 279 -293.

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Renate Fruchter, Kushagra Saxena, Matt Breidenthal, Peter Demian. Collaborative design exploration in an interactive workspace. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing. 2007; 21 (3):279-293.

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Renate Fruchter; Kushagra Saxena; Matt Breidenthal; Peter Demian. 2007. "Collaborative design exploration in an interactive workspace." Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing 21, no. 3: 279-293.