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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Outpatient oncology settings: the distinctive contribution of supportive design to patient experience and wellbeing	62
From product to service – strategies for upscaling smart home performance monitoring	57
Defining demand - The suitability of sensor-based demand-controlled ventilation within deep energy retrofit dwellings	49
NDT spatial data integration for monumental buildings: technical information management for the Royal Alcazar of Seville	47
Concepts of performance in post-occupancy evaluation post-probe: a literature review	36
Impact of setbacks on thermal comfort and visual privacy in detached houses in Jordan	32
Damage assessment automation for single storey detached masonry houses: a probabilistic approach	31
Investigating adoption of high prefabrication level technologies for enterprises: an integrated model	29
Climate declarations for buildings as a new policy instrument in Sweden: a multiple streams perspective	29
The state of earthen housing worldwide: how development affects attitudes and adoption	25
Making sense of smart features in the smart office: a stated choice experiment of office user preferences	23
Factors affecting the use of earth material in mainstream construction: a critical review	22
Organizing construction work: a digital and cooperative way forwards for micro-projects	22
Towards circular renovation: a comparative review of circular economy integration in sustainable building rating systems	21
Airborne infection risk in classrooms based on environment and occupant behavior measurement under COVID-19 epidemic	21
Design for Structural Adaptation: economic feasibility of an implementation for Swedish timber buildings	21
Digital workflow for climate resilient building façade generation	20
Platforming for industrialized building: a comparative case study of digitally-enabled product platforms	19
Assessment of students’ productivity in context of indoor environmental quality and personal factors	19
Reviewing the progress of reconstruction five years after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal	18
AI-powered virtual assistants nudging occupants for energy saving: proactive smart speakers for HVAC control	17
Exploring the adoption of BIM amidst the COVID-19 crisis in China	16
Constructing a theory-informed workplace design framework: co-design case study for knowledge work environment satisfaction improvement	15
Correction	15
Nature connectedness and biophilic design	14

Thermal sensitivity and adaptive comfort in mixed-mode office buildings in humid subtropical climate	14
Reassessing thermal comfort in modern architecture: E.1027 as a case study	13
Changing identities of architects in China and the UK from the 1950s to the 1990s	13
BEKG: A built environment knowledge graph	13
Reasonable kitchen space for urban residences: based on an investigation in Beijing	13
Two decades of the evolution of China’s green building policy: insights from text mining	13
Study of phase change material on alleviating building overheating risk in cold regions of China	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
Digitalization and automation in the built environment	13
What makes a healthy home? A study in Auckland, New Zealand	12
Trust in circular design: active stakeholder participation in Chinese and Dutch housing retrofit projects	12
Adopting cross-laminated timber in architectural design to reduce embodied carbon emission in China based on the diffusion of innovation theory	11
Affinity towards flexible housing – a study among homeowners in Germany	11
The drivers of social procurement policy adoption in the construction industry: an Australian perspective	11
The kindergarten of Crosara by Sergio Los: reassessing a pioneering thermally efficient building	11
Drivers of circular economy adoption in the construction industry: a systematic review and conceptual model	10
Strategies and way forward of low carbon construction in Malaysia	10
Developing a taxonomy for sensory-informed architectural design qualities in autism	10
Exploring time and cost optimization in energy retrofit programmes of traditionally constructed, owner-occupied UK dwellings	10
The actual performance of retrofitted residential apartments: post-occupancy evaluation study in Italy	9
A summertime thermal analysis of New Zealand Homestar certified apartments for older people	9
A dynamic model for estimating the long-term need for repairs and renovations in residential buildings	9
Large-scale statistical analysis and modelling of real and regulatory total energy use in existing single-family houses in Flanders	8
Pedestrian thermal perception: studies around two high-rise buildings in the Mediterranean climate	8
Perceptions of volume home builders and the transition to net zero emissions housing in Australia	8
Smart faces: using communication strategies to optimize technical information flow in middle-out facilities management	8
Building health and wellbeing	8
Towards a circular transition of the built environment: systemic and transdisciplinary models, methods and perspectives	8
Cross-linking of biopolymers for stabilizing earthen construction materials	8
Design for healthy ageing – the relationship between design, well-being, and quality of life: a review	8
Natural ventilation in Brazilian homes: depicting perceptions, usage patterns and motivations in a questionnaire survey	8
Overheating assessment for apartments during average and hot summers in the Nordic climate	8
Bridging the information gap using targeted digital transformation: process mapping large-scale concrete activity	8
Seasonal and spatial variability of volatile organic compounds and formaldehyde concentrations at the fire station	8
Space standards in affordable housing in England	8
The design coordination role at the pre-construction stage of construction projects	8
Exploring the impact of windows on musicians’ experience: a neuroarchitecture perspective	8
An exploration of post-occupancy evaluation in Canada: origins, milestones and next steps	7
Impact of indoor environmental quality on health and wellbeing in a warming climate	7
Integrating energy efficiency into private home repair, maintenance and improvement practice in England and Wales	7
Actor perceptions and network characteristics around climate-wise housing and construction in Finland	7
Scan-to-BIM method in construction: assessment of the 3D buildings model accuracy in terms inventory measurements	7
The influence of group decision-making on residents’ preferences for sustainable energy measures of dwellings	7
Machine learning-based prediction of thermal comfort: exploring building types, climate, ventilation strategies, and seasonal variations	7
Environmental life cycle assessment based on the retrofitting of a twentieth-century heritage building in Spain, with electricity decarbonization scenarios	7
Floor plan graph learning for generative design of residential buildings: a discrete denoising diffusion model	7
Sustainability promotion through information provision: the perspective of Australian apartment owners and renters	7
Causal relationships of human errors in building maintenance: findings from Sri Lanka	6
Operational text-mining methods for enhancing building maintenance management	6
Assessing the sustainability of architectural reclamation processes: an evaluation procedure for the early design phase	6

Staff and resident perceptions of mental and behavioural health environments	6
Note	6
Developing whole-life carbon benchmark values for Norwegian buildings	5
Housing space and occupancy standards: developing evidence for policy from a health and wellbeing perspective in the UK context	5
Occupant thermal comfort and indoor environmental conditions in Mies van der Rohe’s S. R. Crown Hall	5
Fiscal and political determinants of local government maintenance	5
Using explainable artificial intelligence to predict sleep interruptions from indoor environmental conditions: an empirical study	5
From waste to thermal insulation for buildings: an investigation of potentialities in the Italian context	5
Statement of Retraction: A summertime thermal analysis of certified green apartments for older people	5
How information asymmetries exacerbate building defects risks for purchasers of Australian residential multi-owned properties	5
Introducing a severe impacts approach to guide adaptation to pluvial floods in residential and public buildings	5
On the effectiveness of passive controls for summer thermal comfort in highly insulated dwellings	5
Station biophilia – assessing the perception of greenery on railway platforms using a digital twin	5
Using dynamic-locational material flow analysis to model the development of urban stock	4
A framework for smart building technologies implementation in the Ghanaian construction industry: a PLS-SEM approach	4
How prebound effects compromise the market premium for energy efficiency in German house sales	4
Factors influencing BIM use in green building construction project management in the UK and China	4
The influence of virtual human representations on first-year architecture students’ perceptions of digitally designed spaces: a pilot study	4
A construction cost estimation framework using DNN and validation unit	4
Synchronization of water-energy consumption in residential and non-residential buildings during COVID-19	4
Correction	4
Bridging conservation and modernity: evaluation of functional priorities for architectural heritage adaptation in China	4
Energy poverty, housing and health: the lived experience of older low-income Australians	4
The impact on human behaviour in shared building spaces as a result of COVID-19 restrictions	4
Post occupancy and participatory design evaluation of a marginalized low-income settlement in Ahmedabad, India	4
Carbon handprint – a review of potential climate benefits of buildings	4
Impact of distance on stroke inpatients’ mobility in rehabilitation clinics: a shadowing study	4
Impact of windcatcher on the thermal comfort and indoor air quality in a modern house	4
The interdisciplinary conceptualization of future proofing in the context of hospital buildings	4
Barriers and enablers for scaled-up adoption of compressed earth blocks in Egypt	3
Challenges to business ecosystem alignment when implementing solar photovoltaic systems in the Swedish built environment	3
Thermal pleasure inside solar screened spaces: an experimental study to explore alliesthesia in architecture	3
Comprehensive renovation of a multi-apartment building in Sweden: techno-economic analysis with respect to different economic scenarios	3
Exploring the feasibility of mobile robots for post-occupancy evaluations	3
Urban regenerative thinking and practice: a systematic literature review	3
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A summertime thermal analysis of certified green apartments for older people	3
Cleanroom air quality: combined effects of ventilation rate and filtration schemes in a laboratory cleanroom	3
Nomenclature for offsite construction	3
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
The POE paradigm in architecture: practices and perspectives of Canadian practitioners	3
Promoting resilience in Finland: built environment professionals’ perspectives	3
Identification of the behavioural factors in the decision-making processes of the energy efficiency renovations: Dutch homeowners	3
Diffusion prediction of prefabricated construction technology under multi-factor coupling	3
Implementing modular integrated construction in high-rise high-density cities: perspectives in Hong Kong	3
Relationship between the design characteristics of activity-based flexible offices and users’ perceptions of privacy and social interactions	3