OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Building Research and Information is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
On the effectiveness of passive controls for summer thermal comfort in highly insulated dwellings	47
Discrepancies between predicted and actual indoor environmental (dis)comfort: the role of hospitalized patients’ adaptation strategies	41
Occupant thermal comfort and indoor environmental conditions in Mies van der Rohe’s S. R. Crown Hall	39
Evaluation of CO ₂ and TVOC concentration in a school in Palma during the month of June	36
Hybrid ventilation in a nearly zero-energy building as a function of users’ habits for better indoor air quality and thermal comfort in a warm climate	32
Outpatient oncology settings: the distinctive contribution of supportive design to patient experience and wellbeing	25
Occupant experience of domestic kitchen environments in low-energy social and affordable housing in Scotland	22
Automated filtering of façade defect images using a similarity method for enhanced inspection documentation	21
A qualitative and life cycle-based study of the energy performance gap in building construction: Perspectives of Finnish project professionals and property maintenance experts	20
Facility manager perspectives on building condition assessment for Portuguese higher education institutions	19
Fiscal and political determinants of local government maintenance	19
From product to service – strategies for upscaling smart home performance monitoring	17
Comprehensive renovation of a multi-apartment building in Sweden: techno-economic analysis with respect to different economic scenarios	17
Reasonable kitchen space for urban residences: based on an investigation in Beijing	16
Digitalization and automation in the built environment	16
Energy and environmental improvement of built heritage: HBIM simulation-based approach applied to nine Mediterranean case-studies	16
Identification of the behavioural factors in the decision-making processes of the energy efficiency renovations: Dutch homeowners	16
Embedded resilience in the built stock. Lessons from socio-spatial interpretation. The case of CanFugarolas (Mataro-Barcelona)	16
Implementing modular integrated construction in high-rise high-density cities: perspectives in Hong Kong	15
Fuzzy systems in the digital management of heritage timber buildings in South Chile	15
NDT spatial data integration for monumental buildings: technical information management for the Royal Alcazar of Seville	15
Nomenclature for offsite construction	14
Facilitating a transition to a circular economy in construction projects: intermediate theoretical models based on the theory of planned behaviour	13
Changing identities of architects in China and the UK from the 1950s to the 1990s	13
Why do people use portable air purifiers? Evidence from occupant surveys and air quality monitoring in homes in three European cities	12

Concepts of performance in post-occupancy evaluation post-probe: a literature review	12
Two decades of the evolution of China’s green building policy: insights from text mining	12
An exploration of experts’ views on the relative importance of indoor-environmental quality parameters	12
Reassessing thermal comfort in modern architecture: E.1027 as a case study	11
Diffusion prediction of prefabricated construction technology under multi-factor coupling	11
Trust in circular design: active stakeholder participation in Chinese and Dutch housing retrofit projects	10
Investigating the indoor environmental quality of different workplaces through web-scraping and text-mining of Glassdoor reviews	10
Correction	10
Upscaling bio-based construction: challenges and opportunities	10
Drivers of circular economy adoption in the construction industry: a systematic review and conceptual model	9
Statement of Retraction: A summertime thermal analysis of certified green apartments for older people	9
Investigating adoption of high prefabrication level technologies for enterprises: an integrated model	9
Impact of setbacks on thermal comfort and visual privacy in detached houses in Jordan	9
Affinity towards flexible housing – a study among homeowners in Germany	9
Comparative analysis of mobile laser scanning and terrestrial laser scanning for the indoor mapping	8
Adopting cross-laminated timber in architectural design to reduce embodied carbon emission in China based on the diffusion of innovation theory	8
Using dynamic-locational material flow analysis to model the development of urban stock	8
Virtual web-based instruments in the evaluation of functional degradation of heritage timber buildings	8
The energy performance of dwellings with heat pumps of Dutch non-profit housing associations	8
Examining regime complexity in China's green housing transition: a housing developers’ perspective	8
Climate declarations for buildings as a new policy instrument in Sweden: a multiple streams perspective	8
Station biophilia – assessing the perception of greenery on railway platforms using a digital twin	8
The kindergarten of Crosara by Sergio Los: reassessing a pioneering thermally efficient building	8
COVID-19: a catalyst for revitalizing mixed-use urban centers? The case of Paris	7
What makes a healthy home? A study in Auckland, New Zealand	7
Path dependencies and sustainable facilities management: a study of housing companies in Sweden	7
Enhancing work commitment through workplace design: development and prioritization of evaluation criteria in South Korea	7
The drivers of social procurement policy adoption in the construction industry: an Australian perspective	7
Synchronization of water-energy consumption in residential and non-residential buildings during COVID-19	7
Passive strategies for climate change mitigation in architectural heritage: the case study of Santa Maria in Trastevere Basilica, Rome	7
Effects of digital readiness on digital competence of AEC companies: a dual-stage PLS-SEM-ANN analysis	7
A framework for smart building technologies implementation in the Ghanaian construction industry: a PLS-SEM approach	7
A healthy office and healthy employees: a longitudinal case study with a salutogenic perspective in the context of the physical office environment	7
Impact of windcatcher on the thermal comfort and indoor air quality in a modern house	6
Post occupancy and participatory design evaluation of a marginalized low-income settlement in Ahmedabad, India	6
Energy poverty, housing and health: the lived experience of older low-income Australians	6
A construction cost estimation framework using DNN and validation unit	6
Exploring the feasibility of mobile robots for post-occupancy evaluations	6
Methods for probability distributions estimation of indoor environmental parameters and long-term IEQ assessment	6
Damage assessment automation for single storey detached masonry houses: a probabilistic approach	6
Carbon handprint – a review of potential climate benefits of buildings	6
The actual performance of retrofitted residential apartments: post-occupancy evaluation study in Italy	5
Microclimate monitoring and conservation issues of a Baroque church in Italy: a risk assessment analysis	5
Comparative study on the feasibility of watertight face-sealed building joints under simulated wind-driven rain conditions	5
Cross-linking of biopolymers for stabilizing earthen construction materials	5
Thermal performance of alternative binders lime hemp concrete (LHC) building: comparison with conventional building materials	5
Factors influencing BIM use in green building construction project management in the UK and China	5
Making sense of smart features in the smart office: a stated choice experiment of office user preferences	5
The state of earthen housing worldwide: how development affects attitudes and adoption	5
Critical policy drivers for Modular integrated Construction projects in Hong Kong	5

Aligning expectations and perceptions of elevator maintenance stakeholders: an application of expectation confirmation theory	5
Influence of functional boundary for corridor spaces in elderly facilities in China	5
Strategies and way forward of low carbon construction in Malaysia	5
Assessment of the impacts of balconies on indoor environmental quality in mild climate conditions, Portugal	5
Increased home energy use: unintended outcomes of energy efficiency focused policy	4
Large-scale statistical analysis and modelling of real and regulatory total energy use in existing single-family houses in Flanders	4
Space temperature policy towards net-zero: recommendations from a systematic review of UK HEI heating policies	4
Impact of distance on stroke inpatients’ mobility in rehabilitation clinics: a shadowing study	4
A dynamic model for estimating the long-term need for repairs and renovations in residential buildings	4
Correction	4
Assessing the anthropogenic carbon emission of wooden construction: an LCA study	4
The effect of building attributes on the energy performance at a scale: an inferential analysis	4
User response to indoor thermal environment in female high school buildings in Oman	4
The significance of indoor thermal comfort on occupants’ perception: in university buildings in Auckland, New Zealand	4
The impact on human behaviour in shared building spaces as a result of COVID-19 restrictions	4
Physical environmental factors that affect users’ willingness to visit neighbourhood centres in China	4
Circular economy in the Australian AEC industry: investigation of barriers and enablers	4
How prebound effects compromise the market premium for energy efficiency in German house sales	4
A summertime thermal analysis of New Zealand Homestar certified apartments for older people	4
Towards a circular transition of the built environment: systemic and transdisciplinary models, methods and perspectives	3
Critical indoor environmental factors affecting productivity: perspectives from university staff and postgraduate students	3
Building lower-carbon affordable housing: case studies from California	3
Investigating building permit processes across Europe: characteristics and patterns	3
Exploring the adoption of BIM amidst the COVID-19 crisis in China	3
Reconsidering adaptive industrialized construction in Chinese rural areas: responding to the challenge of COVID-19	3
Perceived attributes and dimensions of accessibility in adapted bathrooms	3
Exploring the challenges of implementing design for excellence in industrialized construction projects in China	3
The impact of light adjustment versus tuneable white mode on ICU staff’s circadian rhythms	3
Natural ventilation in Brazilian homes: depicting perceptions, usage patterns and motivations in a questionnaire survey	3
Overheating assessment for apartments during average and hot summers in the Nordic climate	3
The influence of virtual human representations on first-year architecture students’ perceptions of digitally designed spaces: a pilot study	3
Platforming for industrialized building: a comparative case study of digitally-enabled product platforms	3
Managing crises ‘together’: how can the built environment contribute to social resilience?	3
Airborne infection risk in classrooms based on environment and occupant behavior measurement under COVID-19 epidemic	3
Pedestrian thermal perception: studies around two high-rise buildings in the Mediterranean climate	3
The design coordination role at the pre-construction stage of construction projects	2
The impact of workplace design on academic staff: a systematic literature review	2
Space standards in affordable housing in England	2
Design process for an occupant survey system to assess satisfaction with indoor environmental quality	2
Barriers and enablers for scaled-up adoption of compressed earth blocks in Egypt	2
Patient well-being, adaptation of and to indoor conditions, and hospital room design: two mixed methods case studies	2
Digital workflow for climate resilient building façade generation	2
Sustainable supplier selection for prefabricated megaprojects during COVID-19: a novel large group decision-making model	2
Economic feasibility of green office building: combining life cycle cost analysis and cost–benefit evaluation	2
Organizing construction work: a digital and cooperative way forwards for micro-projects	2
Expanding horizons: a framework for developing futures-oriented resilience in the built environment	2
The influence of classroom width on attention and memory: virtual-reality-based task performance and neurophysiological effects	2
The interdisciplinary conceptualization of future proofing in the context of hospital buildings	2
Towards circular renovation: a comparative review of circular economy integration in sustainable building rating systems	2
Trained and untrained children explore school spaces in Albania: assessment and participation in children’s well-being	2
Dwelling size and usability in London: a study of floor plan data using machine learning	2
Design for healthy ageing – the relationship between design, well-being, and quality of life: a review	2
Developing a readiness model and a self-assessment tool for adopting digital technologies in construction organizations	2
Reviewing the progress of reconstruction five years after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal	2
Bridging the information gap using targeted digital transformation: process mapping large-scale concrete activity	2