OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Building Research and Information is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
CO ₂ concentration in six schools located in Palma – a comparative evaluation	72
Concepts of performance in post-occupancy evaluation post-probe: a literature review	66
A comparative analysis of housing quality rating systems: insights for contextual adaptation and policy development	42
Defining demand - The suitability of sensor-based demand-controlled ventilation within deep energy retrofit dwellings	40
NDT spatial data integration for monumental buildings: technical information management for the Royal Alcazar of Seville	40
Outpatient oncology settings: the distinctive contribution of supportive design to patient experience and wellbeing	35
Social housing improvement factors for upgrading processes	30
From product to service – strategies for upscaling smart home performance monitoring	27
Damage assessment automation for single storey detached masonry houses: a probabilistic approach	27
Investigating adoption of high prefabrication level technologies for enterprises: an integrated model	26
Impact of setbacks on thermal comfort and visual privacy in detached houses in Jordan	26
Climate declarations for buildings as a new policy instrument in Sweden: a multiple streams perspective	25
Organizing construction work: a digital and cooperative way forwards for micro-projects	22
Making sense of smart features in the smart office: a stated choice experiment of office user preferences	22
Assessment of students’ productivity in context of indoor environmental quality and personal factors	21
Design for Structural Adaptation: economic feasibility of an implementation for Swedish timber buildings	20
Digital workflow for climate resilient building façade generation	19
Towards circular renovation: a comparative review of circular economy integration in sustainable building rating systems	19
AI-powered virtual assistants nudging occupants for energy saving: proactive smart speakers for HVAC control	19
Airborne infection risk in classrooms based on environment and occupant behavior measurement under COVID-19 epidemic	17
Factors affecting the use of earth material in mainstream construction: a critical review	17
Reviewing the progress of reconstruction five years after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal	17
Constructing a theory-informed workplace design framework: co-design case study for knowledge work environment satisfaction improvement	16
Platforming for industrialized building: a comparative case study of digitally-enabled product platforms	16
BEKG: A built environment knowledge graph	15

Effects of IEQ on inpatients’ psychological restoration in hospital wards: the role of environmental perceptions	15
Nature connectedness and biophilic design	15
Thermal sensitivity and adaptive comfort in mixed-mode office buildings in humid subtropical climate	15
Study of phase change material on alleviating building overheating risk in cold regions of China	14
Reasonable kitchen space for urban residences: based on an investigation in Beijing	14
Trust in circular design: active stakeholder participation in Chinese and Dutch housing retrofit projects	14
Changing identities of architects in China and the UK from the 1950s to the 1990s	14
Digitalization and automation in the built environment	14
What makes a healthy home? A study in Auckland, New Zealand	13
Two decades of the evolution of China’s green building policy: insights from text mining	13
The kindergarten of Crosara by Sergio Los: reassessing a pioneering thermally efficient building	13
A qualitative and life cycle-based study of the energy performance gap in building construction: Perspectives of Finnish project professionals and property maintenance experts	13
The drivers of social procurement policy adoption in the construction industry: an Australian perspective	12
Affinity towards flexible housing – a study among homeowners in Germany	12
Developing a taxonomy for sensory-informed architectural design qualities in autism	12
Drivers of circular economy adoption in the construction industry: a systematic review and conceptual model	12
Adopting cross-laminated timber in architectural design to reduce embodied carbon emission in China based on the diffusion of innovation theory	11
The actual performance of retrofitted residential apartments: post-occupancy evaluation study in Italy	11
Exploring time and cost optimization in energy retrofit programmes of traditionally constructed, owner-occupied UK dwellings	11
Strategies and way forward of low carbon construction in Malaysia	11
A summertime thermal analysis of New Zealand Homestar certified apartments for older people	11
Pedestrian thermal perception: studies around two high-rise buildings in the Mediterranean climate	10
Cross-linking of biopolymers for stabilizing earthen construction materials	10
A dynamic model for estimating the long-term need for repairs and renovations in residential buildings	10
Bridging the information gap using targeted digital transformation: process mapping large-scale concrete activity	9
Large-scale statistical analysis and modelling of real and regulatory total energy use in existing single-family houses in Flanders	9
Smart faces: using communication strategies to optimize technical information flow in middle-out facilities management	9
Natural ventilation in Brazilian homes: depicting perceptions, usage patterns and motivations in a questionnaire survey	9
Seasonal and spatial variability of volatile organic compounds and formaldehyde concentrations at the fire station	9
Perceptions of volume home builders and the transition to net zero emissions housing in Australia	8
Towards a circular transition of the built environment: systemic and transdisciplinary models, methods and perspectives	8
Coping strategies and resilience of New Zealand tradeswomen in construction: navigating challenges	8
Actor perceptions and network characteristics around climate-wise housing and construction in Finland	8
Overheating assessment for apartments during average and hot summers in the Nordic climate	8
Space standards in affordable housing in England	8
Scan-to-BIM method in construction: assessment of the 3D buildings model accuracy in terms inventory measurements	7
An exploration of post-occupancy evaluation in Canada: origins, milestones and next steps	7
Floor plan graph learning for generative design of residential buildings: a discrete denoising diffusion model	7
How information asymmetries exacerbate building defects risks for purchasers of Australian residential multi-owned properties	7
Using explainable artificial intelligence to predict sleep interruptions from indoor environmental conditions: an empirical study	7
Sustainability promotion through information provision: the perspective of Australian apartment owners and renters	7
Building health and wellbeing	7
Impact of indoor environmental quality on health and wellbeing in a warming climate	7
From waste to thermal insulation for buildings: an investigation of potentialities in the Italian context	7
Assessing the sustainability of architectural reclamation processes: an evaluation procedure for the early design phase	7
Exploring the impact of windows on musicians’ experience: a neuroarchitecture perspective	7
Machine learning-based prediction of thermal comfort: exploring building types, climate, ventilation strategies, and seasonal variations	7
Housing space and occupancy standards: developing evidence for policy from a health and wellbeing perspective in the UK context	7
Causal relationships of human errors in building maintenance: findings from Sri Lanka	7
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Occupant thermal comfort and indoor environmental conditions in Mies van der Rohe’s S. R. Crown Hall	6
A construction cost estimation framework using DNN and validation unit	6
Introducing a severe impacts approach to guide adaptation to pluvial floods in residential and public buildings	6
On the effectiveness of passive controls for summer thermal comfort in highly insulated dwellings	6
Using dynamic-locational material flow analysis to model the development of urban stock	6
Fiscal and political determinants of local government maintenance	6
Developing whole-life carbon benchmark values for Norwegian buildings	6
A framework for smart building technologies implementation in the Ghanaian construction industry: a PLS-SEM approach	6
The effect of wind-induced vibrations in tall buildings on occupants’ work performance	5
Impact of windcatcher on the thermal comfort and indoor air quality in a modern house	5
Carbon handprint – a review of potential climate benefits of buildings	5
Post occupancy and participatory design evaluation of a marginalized low-income settlement in Ahmedabad, India	5
Correction	5
Synchronization of water-energy consumption in residential and non-residential buildings during COVID-19	5
Station biophilia – assessing the perception of greenery on railway platforms using a digital twin	5
Improving survey-based data collection for more effective domestic retrofit evaluations: perspectives from occupants and surveyors	5
The influence of virtual human representations on first-year architecture students’ perceptions of digitally designed spaces: a pilot study	4
Relationship between the design characteristics of activity-based flexible offices and users’ perceptions of privacy and social interactions	4
Impact of distance on stroke inpatients’ mobility in rehabilitation clinics: a shadowing study	4
Long-term monitoring of thermal comfort in three apartments in Jordan	4
The interdisciplinary conceptualization of future proofing in the context of hospital buildings	4
The POE paradigm in architecture: practices and perspectives of Canadian practitioners	4
Bridging conservation and modernity: evaluation of functional priorities for architectural heritage adaptation in China	4
How prebound effects compromise the market premium for energy efficiency in German house sales	4
Barriers and enablers for scaled-up adoption of compressed earth blocks in Egypt	4
Trajectories from standard to incremental and pioneering innovation in timber construction: multi-storey timber buildings in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland	4
Factors influencing BIM use in green building construction project management in the UK and China	4
Embedded resilience in the built stock. Lessons from socio-spatial interpretation. The case of CanFugarolas (Mataro-Barcelona)	3
High-rise apartment quality evaluation and related demographic factors: lesson from RentSafeTO programme	3
Multi-objective optimization of insulation materials for building energy and comfort improvements in hot and arid regions	3
Implementing modular integrated construction in high-rise high-density cities: perspectives in Hong Kong	3
Comprehensive renovation of a multi-apartment building in Sweden: techno-economic analysis with respect to different economic scenarios	3
A contingency approach to platform implementation: platform types, attributes, and value chain integration	3
Promoting resilience in Finland: built environment professionals’ perspectives	3
Possibility of personalization and customization of the workplace by knowledge workers	3
Cleanroom air quality: combined effects of ventilation rate and filtration schemes in a laboratory cleanroom	3
Impact of architectural design characteristics of railway stations on travellers’ preferences: a digital design method	3
Empirical evaluation of the LEED green building rating system: exploring limitations through configurational analysis	3
The energy performance of dwellings with heat pumps of Dutch non-profit housing associations	3
Bringing post-occupancy evaluation up front to enhance energy efficiency in residential buildings	3
Challenges to business ecosystem alignment when implementing solar photovoltaic systems in the Swedish built environment	3
Nomenclature for offsite construction	3
Diffusion prediction of prefabricated construction technology under multi-factor coupling	3
Comparative analysis of mobile laser scanning and terrestrial laser scanning for the indoor mapping	3
Exploring the feasibility of mobile robots for post-occupancy evaluations	3