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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping the dynamics of China’s prefabricated building policies from 1956 to 2019: a bibliometric analysis	40
Scan-to-BIM method in construction: assessment of the 3D buildings model accuracy in terms inventory measurements	35
Design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) enablers for offsite interior design and construction	33
Efficient energy consumption prediction model for a data analytic-enabled industry building in a smart city	31
Towards a smart campus: supporting campus decisions with Internet of Things applications	30
Physiological sensing-driven personal thermal comfort modelling in consideration of human activity variations	27
Exploring the adoption of BIM amidst the COVID-19 crisis in China	25
Getting smarter about household energy: the who and what of demand for smart meters	24
A human-centred approach to smart housing	24
Development of historic building information modelling: a systematic literature review	23
Trusted data infrastructure for smart cities: a blockchain perspective	19
Circular economy in the Australian AEC industry: investigation of barriers and enablers	18
Adaptive behaviour and air conditioning use in Brazilian residential buildings	16
Housing space and occupancy standards: developing evidence for policy from a health and wellbeing perspective in the UK context	15
Building information modelling application of material, water, and climate footprint analysis	15
The state of earthen housing worldwide: how development affects attitudes and adoption	15
Graph-based network generation and CCTV processing techniques for fire evacuation	14
The impact on human behaviour in shared building spaces as a result of COVID-19 restrictions	14
Enforcement of acoustic performance assessment in residential buildings and occupant satisfaction	14
Natural ventilation usability under climate change in Canada and the United States	14
Towards a holistic approach for assessing the impact of IEQ on satisfaction, health, and productivity	14
Testing the relationship between objective indoor environment quality and subjective experiences of comfort	14
An indoor environmental quality assessment of office spaces at an urban Australian university	13
The impact of policy instruments on the first generation of Tall Wood Buildings	13
Energy poverty, housing and health: the lived experience of older low-income Australians	12

Detection of defects in building walls using modified OptD method for down-sampling of point clouds	11
The job-seeking experiences of migrants and refugees in the Australian construction industry	11
Investigating the indoor environmental quality of different workplaces through web-scraping and text-mining of Glassdoor reviews	11
AI-powered virtual assistants nudging occupants for energy saving: proactive smart speakers for HVAC control	11
Participatory design in refugee camps: comparison of different methods and visualization tools	11
Indoor environmental quality factors that matter to workplace occupants: an 11-year-benchmark study	10
Cognitive response and how it is affected by changes in temperature	10
Facilitating a transition to a circular economy in construction projects: intermediate theoretical models based on the theory of planned behaviour	10
A critical review of African green building research	10
Economic feasibility of green office building: combining life cycle cost analysis and cost–benefit evaluation	10
Nature connectedness and biophilic design	10
Cross-linking of biopolymers for stabilizing earthen construction materials	10
Institutional investor motivation, processes, and expectations for sustainable building investment	9
Dwelling size and usability in London: a study of floor plan data using machine learning	8
Why do people use portable air purifiers? Evidence from occupant surveys and air quality monitoring in homes in three European cities	8
Design for healthy ageing – the relationship between design, well-being, and quality of life: a review	8
Distributed network-based structural health monitoring expert system	8
Operational text-mining methods for enhancing building maintenance management	8
A summertime thermal analysis of New Zealand Homestar certified apartments for older people	8
Holistic indoor environmental quality assessment as a driver in early building design	7
Strategies and way forward of low carbon construction in Malaysia	7
Identification of the behavioural factors in the decision-making processes of the energy efficiency renovations: Dutch homeowners	7
Maturity model of building maintenance management for New Zealand’s state schools	7
Pedestrian thermal perception: studies around two high-rise buildings in the Mediterranean climate	7
Thermal performance of alternative binders lime hemp concrete (LHC) building: comparison with conventional building materials	7
Urban regenerative thinking and practice: a systematic literature review	7
Critical policy drivers for Modular integrated Construction projects in Hong Kong	7
Disruptive information exchange requirements in construction projects: perception and response patterns	7
Impact of COVID-19 protocols on IEQ and students’ perception within educational buildings in Southern Spain	6
Assessing the anthropogenic carbon emission of wooden construction: an LCA study	6
Higher education students’ indoor environmental quality satisfaction benchmark	6
A proposed long-term thermal comfort scale	6
Fuzzy systems in the digital management of heritage timber buildings in South Chile	6
Green building and policy innovation in the US Low-Income Housing Tax Credit programme	6
The design coordination role at the pre-construction stage of construction projects	6
Exploring the challenges of implementing design for excellence in industrialized construction projects in China	6
Comparative study on the feasibility of watertight face-sealed building joints under simulated wind-driven rain conditions	6
Post occupancy and participatory design evaluation of a marginalized low-income settlement in Ahmedabad, India	6
Two decades of the evolution of China’s green building policy: insights from text mining	6
Understanding the perceived productivity of office occupants in relation to workspace thermal environment	6
The influence of classroom width on attention and memory: virtual-reality-based task performance and neurophysiological effects	6
Microclimate monitoring and conservation issues of a Baroque church in Italy: a risk assessment analysis	6
Exploring membrane-assisted radiant cooling for designing comfortable naturally ventilated spaces in the tropics	6
Thermographic imaging for early detection of biocolonization on buildings	6
Person anomaly detection-based videos surveillance system in urban integrated pipe gallery	6
Energy and environmental improvement of built heritage: HBIM simulation-based approach applied to nine Mediterranean case-studies	5
Implementing modular integrated construction in high-rise high-density cities: perspectives in Hong Kong	5
Thermal pleasure inside solar screened spaces: an experimental study to explore alliesthesia in architecture	5
Quantifying airtightness in Brazilian residential buildings with focus on its contribution to thermal comfort	5
Factors affecting the use of earth material in mainstream construction: a critical review	5

Factors influencing BIM use in green building construction project management in the UK and China	5
Reassessing thermal comfort in modern architecture: E.1027 as a case study	5
Upscaling bio-based construction: challenges and opportunities	5
Comfort and technical installations in Danish low-energy homes: reconnecting design intention and domestic perceptions	5
Systematic review on the integration of building information modelling and prefabrication construction for low-carbon building delivery	5
Large-scale statistical analysis and modelling of real and regulatory total energy use in existing single-family houses in Flanders	5
Energy use optimization in ventilation of operating rooms during inactivity periods	5
Diffusion prediction of prefabricated construction technology under multi-factor coupling	5
Incremental transformation of spatial intelligence from smart systems to sensorial infrastructures	5
Understanding the influencing factors of heritage building maintenance management: findings from developed and developing regions	5
Functioning and environment: Exploring outdoor activity-friendly environments for older adults with disabilities in a Chinese long-term care facility	5
Impact of distance on stroke inpatients’ mobility in rehabilitation clinics: a shadowing study	5
Review of climate change impacts on reservoir hydrology and long-term basin-wide water resources management	4
Developing a readiness model and a self-assessment tool for adopting digital technologies in construction organizations	4
How prebound effects compromise the market premium for energy efficiency in German house sales	4
Productive interactions to exchange knowledge in healthcare building design	4
Reviewing the progress of reconstruction five years after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal	4
NDT spatial data integration for monumental buildings: technical information management for the Royal Alcazar of Seville	4
Comprehensive renovation of a multi-apartment building in Sweden: techno-economic analysis with respect to different economic scenarios	4
An evaluation of determinants influencing the adoption of circular economy principles in Nigerian construction SMEs	4
An integral view of innovation in hospital building design: understanding the context of the research/practice gap	4
Exploring transformative pedagogies for built environment disciplines: the case of interdisciplinarity in low carbon transition	4
Nomenclature for offsite construction	4
Patient well-being, adaptation of and to indoor conditions, and hospital room design: two mixed methods case studies	3
User response to indoor thermal environment in female high school buildings in Oman	3
A healthy office and healthy employees: a longitudinal case study with a salutogenic perspective in the context of the physical office environment	3
A multi-dimensional energy-based analysis of neighbourhood sustainability assessment tools: are institutional indicators really missing?	3
Staff and resident perceptions of mental and behavioural health environments	3
Drivers, barriers and enablers: construction sector views on vertical extensions	3
Digital workflow for climate resilient building façade generation	3
The effect of building attributes on the energy performance at a scale: an inferential analysis	3
Valorization of economic effects from the programme of energy renovation of public buildings in Croatia	3
What makes a healthy home? A study in Auckland, New Zealand	3
Concepts of performance in post-occupancy evaluation post-probe: a literature review	3
Bringing social sustainability into the mix: framing planning dilemmas in mixed-tenure regeneration	3
A systematic review of the mental health of women in construction: future research directions	3
Critical indoor environmental factors affecting productivity: perspectives from university staff and postgraduate students	3
The interdisciplinary conceptualization of future proofing in the context of hospital buildings	3
Drivers of circular economy adoption in the construction industry: a systematic review and conceptual model	3
Discrepancies between predicted and actual indoor environmental (dis)comfort: the role of hospitalized patients’ adaptation strategies	3
Experimental analysis of a prototype for a thermochromic Trombe wall	3
Environmental life cycle assessment based on the retrofitting of a twentieth-century heritage building in Spain, with electricity decarbonization scenarios	3
Integrating energy efficiency into private home repair, maintenance and improvement practice in England and Wales	3