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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Statement of Retraction: A summertime thermal analysis of certified green apartments for older people	55
Evaluation of CO ₂ and TVOC concentration in a school in Palma during the month of June	46
Defining demand - The suitability of sensor-based demand-controlled ventilation within deep energy retrofit dwellings	44
Digitalization and automation in the built environment	41
Outpatient oncology settings: the distinctive contribution of supportive design to patient experience and wellbeing	34
Automated filtering of façade defect images using a similarity method for enhanced inspection documentation	31
A qualitative and life cycle-based study of the energy performance gap in building construction: Perspectives of Finnish project professionals and property maintenance experts	30
From product to service – strategies for upscaling smart home performance monitoring	28
Energy and environmental improvement of built heritage: HBIM simulation-based approach applied to nine Mediterranean case-studies	28
NDT spatial data integration for monumental buildings: technical information management for the Royal Alcazar of Seville	25
Hybrid ventilation in a nearly zero-energy building as a function of users’ habits for better indoor air quality and thermal comfort in a warm climate	22
An exploration of experts’ views on the relative importance of indoor-environmental quality parameters	21
Changing identities of architects in China and the UK from the 1950s to the 1990s	20
Diffusion prediction of prefabricated construction technology under multi-factor coupling	20
Occupant experience of domestic kitchen environments in low-energy social and affordable housing in Scotland	19
Fiscal and political determinants of local government maintenance	19
Discrepancies between predicted and actual indoor environmental (dis)comfort: the role of hospitalized patients’ adaptation strategies	19
Occupant thermal comfort and indoor environmental conditions in Mies van der Rohe’s S. R. Crown Hall	18
On the effectiveness of passive controls for summer thermal comfort in highly insulated dwellings	18
Comprehensive renovation of a multi-apartment building in Sweden: techno-economic analysis with respect to different economic scenarios	18
Reassessing thermal comfort in modern architecture: E.1027 as a case study	17
Identification of the behavioural factors in the decision-making processes of the energy efficiency renovations: Dutch homeowners	17
Nomenclature for offsite construction	17
Reasonable kitchen space for urban residences: based on an investigation in Beijing	16
Facility manager perspectives on building condition assessment for Portuguese higher education institutions	16

Investigating the indoor environmental quality of different workplaces through web-scraping and text-mining of Glassdoor reviews	15
Why do people use portable air purifiers? Evidence from occupant surveys and air quality monitoring in homes in three European cities	15
Correction	14
Two decades of the evolution of China’s green building policy: insights from text mining	14
Concepts of performance in post-occupancy evaluation post-probe: a literature review	13
Upscaling bio-based construction: challenges and opportunities	13
Implementing modular integrated construction in high-rise high-density cities: perspectives in Hong Kong	13
Facilitating a transition to a circular economy in construction projects: intermediate theoretical models based on the theory of planned behaviour	13
Embedded resilience in the built stock. Lessons from socio-spatial interpretation. The case of CanFugarolas (Mataro-Barcelona)	12
Examining regime complexity in China's green housing transition: a housing developers’ perspective	11
Trust in circular design: active stakeholder participation in Chinese and Dutch housing retrofit projects	11
Exploring the feasibility of mobile robots for post-occupancy evaluations	10
Passive strategies for climate change mitigation in architectural heritage: the case study of Santa Maria in Trastevere Basilica, Rome	10
The energy performance of dwellings with heat pumps of Dutch non-profit housing associations	10
Comparative analysis of mobile laser scanning and terrestrial laser scanning for the indoor mapping	10
Climate declarations for buildings as a new policy instrument in Sweden: a multiple streams perspective	10
The drivers of social procurement policy adoption in the construction industry: an Australian perspective	9
Using dynamic-locational material flow analysis to model the development of urban stock	9
Investigating adoption of high prefabrication level technologies for enterprises: an integrated model	9
Affinity towards flexible housing – a study among homeowners in Germany	8
A healthy office and healthy employees: a longitudinal case study with a salutogenic perspective in the context of the physical office environment	8
Post occupancy and participatory design evaluation of a marginalized low-income settlement in Ahmedabad, India	8
A construction cost estimation framework using DNN and validation unit	8
A framework for smart building technologies implementation in the Ghanaian construction industry: a PLS-SEM approach	8
What makes a healthy home? A study in Auckland, New Zealand	8
Station biophilia – assessing the perception of greenery on railway platforms using a digital twin	8
Path dependencies and sustainable facilities management: a study of housing companies in Sweden	8
Synchronization of water-energy consumption in residential and non-residential buildings during COVID-19	8
Enhancing work commitment through workplace design: development and prioritization of evaluation criteria in South Korea	8
Virtual web-based instruments in the evaluation of functional degradation of heritage timber buildings	8
Effects of digital readiness on digital competence of AEC companies: a dual-stage PLS-SEM-ANN analysis	8
Carbon handprint – a review of potential climate benefits of buildings	8
Developing a taxonomy for sensory-informed architectural design qualities in autism	8
Damage assessment automation for single storey detached masonry houses: a probabilistic approach	7
Adopting cross-laminated timber in architectural design to reduce embodied carbon emission in China based on the diffusion of innovation theory	7
Aligning expectations and perceptions of elevator maintenance stakeholders: an application of expectation confirmation theory	7
Assessment of the impacts of balconies on indoor environmental quality in mild climate conditions, Portugal	7
Impact of setbacks on thermal comfort and visual privacy in detached houses in Jordan	7
Drivers of circular economy adoption in the construction industry: a systematic review and conceptual model	7
Cross-linking of biopolymers for stabilizing earthen construction materials	7
Exploring time and cost optimization in energy retrofit programmes of traditionally constructed, owner-occupied UK dwellings	7
COVID-19: a catalyst for revitalizing mixed-use urban centers? The case of Paris	7
The kindergarten of Crosara by Sergio Los: reassessing a pioneering thermally efficient building	7
The actual performance of retrofitted residential apartments: post-occupancy evaluation study in Italy	7
Strategies and way forward of low carbon construction in Malaysia	7
Making sense of smart features in the smart office: a stated choice experiment of office user preferences	6
A dynamic model for estimating the long-term need for repairs and renovations in residential buildings	6
Methods for probability distributions estimation of indoor environmental parameters and long-term IEQ assessment	6
Influence of functional boundary for corridor spaces in elderly facilities in China	6
The significance of indoor thermal comfort on occupants’ perception: in university buildings in Auckland, New Zealand	6

Impact of distance on stroke inpatients’ mobility in rehabilitation clinics: a shadowing study	6
How prebound effects compromise the market premium for energy efficiency in German house sales	6
Correction	5
Increased home energy use: unintended outcomes of energy efficiency focused policy	5
Factors influencing BIM use in green building construction project management in the UK and China	5
An occupant-centric approach on digital twins for building management	5
User response to indoor thermal environment in female high school buildings in Oman	5
Critical policy drivers for Modular integrated Construction projects in Hong Kong	5
Predicting structural deterioration of large-scale building clusters using snapshot data: an integrated Markov-LSTM model	5
Circular economy in the Australian AEC industry: investigation of barriers and enablers	5
A summertime thermal analysis of New Zealand Homestar certified apartments for older people	5
Impact of windcatcher on the thermal comfort and indoor air quality in a modern house	5
Energy poverty, housing and health: the lived experience of older low-income Australians	5
The state of earthen housing worldwide: how development affects attitudes and adoption	5
AI-powered virtual assistants nudging occupants for energy saving: proactive smart speakers for HVAC control	4
Reviewing the progress of reconstruction five years after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal	4
Heritage-BIM for energy simulation: a data exchange method for improved interoperability	4
Pedestrian thermal perception: studies around two high-rise buildings in the Mediterranean climate	4
Exploring the adoption of BIM amidst the COVID-19 crisis in China	4
The impact of light adjustment versus tuneable white mode on ICU staff’s circadian rhythms	4
Bridging the information gap using targeted digital transformation: process mapping large-scale concrete activity	4
Reconsidering adaptive industrialized construction in Chinese rural areas: responding to the challenge of COVID-19	4
Factors affecting the use of earth material in mainstream construction: a critical review	4
Investigating building permit processes across Europe: characteristics and patterns	4
Impacts of building defects on the health and wellbeing of apartment residents: a scoping review	4
The design coordination role at the pre-construction stage of construction projects	4
The effect of building attributes on the energy performance at a scale: an inferential analysis	4
The influence of virtual human representations on first-year architecture students’ perceptions of digitally designed spaces: a pilot study	3
Perceived attributes and dimensions of accessibility in adapted bathrooms	3
Evaluation of the indoor environment in a historic museum during the COVID-19 lockdown in Northwest England	3
Seasonal and spatial variability of volatile organic compounds and formaldehyde concentrations at the fire station	3
Physical environmental factors that affect users’ willingness to visit neighbourhood centres in China	3
The impact on human behaviour in shared building spaces as a result of COVID-19 restrictions	3
Smart faces: using communication strategies to optimize technical information flow in middle-out facilities management	3
Building lower-carbon affordable housing: case studies from California	3
Space standards in affordable housing in England	3
Sustainable supplier selection for prefabricated megaprojects during COVID-19: a novel large group decision-making model	3
Large-scale statistical analysis and modelling of real and regulatory total energy use in existing single-family houses in Flanders	3
Overheating assessment for apartments during average and hot summers in the Nordic climate	3
Critical indoor environmental factors affecting productivity: perspectives from university staff and postgraduate students	3
Space temperature policy towards net-zero: recommendations from a systematic review of UK HEI heating policies	3
Perceptions of volume home builders and the transition to net zero emissions housing in Australia	3
Patient well-being, adaptation of and to indoor conditions, and hospital room design: two mixed methods case studies	3