International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation: Volume 39 Issue 1

Guest editorial

David Oloke

Sustainable refurbishment for school buildings: a literature review

An Thi Hoai Le, Kenneth Sungho Park, Niluka Domingo, Eziaku Rasheed, Nalanie Mithraratne

Any building refurbishment is challenging and school buildings offer no exception. They are increasingly in need of refurbishment due to their age and evolving teaching and…

Artificial neural network analysis of teachers’ performance against thermal comfort

Hamdan Alzahrani, Mohammed Arif, Amit Kaushik, Jack Goulding, David Heesom

The impact of thermal comfort in educational buildings continues to be of major importance in both the design and construction phases. Given this, it is also equally important to…

BIM in the Saudi Arabian construction industry: state of the art, benefit and barriers

Abdullah Al-Yami, Muizz O. Sanni-Anibire

Although there is a boom in the construction industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), it is yet to fully adopt building information modeling (BIM), which has received a lot…

Barriers to BIM implementation and ways forward to improve its adoption in the Nigerian AEC firms

Solomon Olusola Babatunde, Chika Udeaja, Adedayo Opeyemi Adekunle

BIM has much potential to improve the effectiveness of construction works with respect to design, construction and maintenance. However, many Architecture, Engineering, and…

Developing a collaborative HBIM to integrate tangible and intangible cultural heritage

David Heesom, Paul Boden, Anthony Hatfield, Sagal Rooble, Katie Andrews, Hadar Berwari

The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of a collaborative Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) of a 19th-century multi-building industrial site in the…

Implementing HBIM on conservation heritage projects: Lessons from renovation case studies

Alexa Woodward, David Heesom

Heritage or historic building information modelling (BIM), often referred to as HBIM, is becoming an established feature in both research and practice. The advancement of data…

Implementation of BIM technology for knowledge transfer in IBS building maintenance projects

Zul-Atfi Ismail

The current maintenance management method affects the efficiency of the complex, high-rise industrialised building system (IBS) building maintenance management projects in…

BIM business value for asset owners: key issues and challenges

Mustapha Munir, Arto Kiviniemi, Stephen Jones, Stephen Finnegan

There is a need to develop the understanding of asset owners concerning the constraints of building information modelling (BIM) implementation, and its subsequent value…