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Housing Market forecast: 2016

In-depth insights on specific markets, sectors and developments.

Occupants’ perceptions of indoor environmental conditions in two BREEAM excellent buildings

This paper presents a qualitative study that investigated occupants’ practices in two BREEAM Excellent buildings. This research investigated the levels of satisfaction of the building occupants with the thermal, lighting and aural...

Benefits of green building: a literature review

Over the past few years, studies on the benefits of green building have been conducted and published. However, little scholarly attention has been paid to the need to review the existing literature on the benefits of green buildin...

Perceptions of value premiums and workplace productivity in green office buildings in India

With India experiencing a construction boom, and with an estimated 66% of property stock required by 2030 yet to be built, this timely piece of research investigates the perceived market demand, value premiums and workplace produc...

Building Information Modelling to support healthcare built asset management

This research investigates how Building Information Modelling (BIM) can provide benefit by demonstrating the links between built asset maintenance spend and added value to the organisational performance.

Cyprus Property Price Index: Q4 2015

Cyprus Property Price Index: Q1 2015

Competency profiles for implementation of safety management system – a case study in Hong Kong construction sector

Construction is one of the most hazardous industries due to its dangerous work nature. Safety management system (SMS) have been introduced to prevent accident from happening. Project manager and safety practitioners are the key pe...

International Review on Housing Taxation

This report examines three different aspects of housing taxation, in terms of their neutrality, fairness, transparency, efficiency and practicality.

Cyprus Property Price Index: Q1 2017

A quarterly price and rental index that tracks property and rental prices across all districts and main property types in Cyprus.

Cyprus Property Price Index: Q3 2016

A quarterly price and rental index that tracks property and rental prices across all districts and main property types in Cyprus.

Innovative geospatial applications: integration of geospatial data for retaining wall management

This research examines the use of the lower accuracy UAV data where high accuracy data from the terrestrial laser scanner is available but has incomplete coverage.

Mobile and sustainable shelter for urban nomads

This research proposes a mobile city caravan to give answers to the needs of the people that cannot afford to buy a house or an apartment, even temporarily, and introduce an important part of sustainability using cork and bamboo.

Crowd funding the next housing market liquidity shock

Buy-to-let (BTL) equity based crowd funding is embryonic at the moment, but a combination of cyclical and structural factors may propel it into the mainstream as an alternative savings vehicle.

Cyprus Property Price Index: Q3 2015

Cyprus Property Price Index: Q2 2017

A quarterly price and rental index that tracks property and rental prices across all districts and main property types in Cyprus.

Surveying the route of a glacier outburst flood

Using the recent available geoscience technology, the research studies the physical processes and change to a glacier outburst flood (jökulhlaup) in western Greenland.

Prefabricated bathroom: advantages & implementation in Malaysia

This research explores the advantages of utilising prefabricated bathrooms in building construction in Malaysia.

The effect of the buy-to-let mortgage on the price-rent ratio

The strong growth in UK house prices has led to concerns over the sustainability and affordability of the market in its current condition.

Turnaround in crisis hit property markets: January 2016

In-depth insights on specific markets, sectors and developments.