Through research and proven practice, the aim of the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) is to foster ideas on how to reduce negative impacts on the environment while providing for the health and well-being of society. The professions and fields of research required to ensure buildings meet user demands and provide healthy enclosures are many and diverse. The SEEDS conference addresses the interdependence of people, the built and natural environments, and recognizes the interdisciplinary and international themes necessary to assemble the knowledge required for positive change.
Introduction.- Climate Emergency: Beyond the Sustainable Development
Goals.- The Problems of Achieving Social Sustainability.- A Hammer Only Sees
Nails: Why Construction Contractors Monetise Social Value.- How the Social
Value Act (2012) Contributes to Wealth Inequality in the UK Construction
Industry.- Timber as a Solution in Construction: Impacting on the Transition
to Green Buildings and Sustainable Cities.- Efficient Management of
Environmental Control Within Electrical Substations.- Nearly Zero Energy
Buildings (NZEB) and Their Effect on Social Housing in Ireland: A Case Study
Review.- Performance of Distributed Energy Resources in Three Low Energy
Dwellings During the UK Lock Down Period.- Learnings From the Evolution of
the University of Suffolk Ecolab: Adopting People Centred Design Approaches
to Encourage the Mass Uptake of Energy Transition Solutions in the Housing
Sector.- A Review of Sustainable Construction Practices in Ghana.- Key
Factors Influencing Deployment of Photovoltaic Systems: A Case Study of a
Public University in South Africa.- Is It Possible to Develop Lamella and
Airey Properties Ecologically?.- Towards Open and Citizen-led Data Informing
Dwelling Retrofit Strategies.- Beyond Drivers and Barriers: A Theoretical
Framework Addressing the Engagement of UK Construction Practitioners in
Retrofit for Energy-efficiency.- Implications of a Natural Ventilation
Retrofit of an Office Building.- Developing a Sustainable Urban Environment
Through Teaching Asset Management at a Postgraduate Level.- The Impact of
Department of Construction Management Facebook Environment-related Posts.-
The Breakfast Room Game A Case of an Innovative Construction Project
Management Simulation for Year 6 Children.- Underground Utility Services on
Irish Construction Projects: Current Work Practices and the Effectiveness of
the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) Code of Practice.- Health and Safety
Practices and Performance on Public Sector Projects: Site
ManagersPerceptions.- Understanding the Concept of Resilience in
Construction Safety Management Systems.- Optimisation of the Process for
Generation, Delivery and Impact Assessment of Toolbox Talks on a Construction
Site With Multiple Cultures.- Bagging a Bargain Begets Amnesia: Insights of
Integrating Responsible Sourcing Into Building Information Modelling.- The
Vulnerability of Governance Decision-making When Choosing Projects for
Programs and Portfolios.- An Analysis of Adversarial/cooperative Attitudes in
Construction Contracting: How Approaches to Adversarial Procurement Might
Have a Lasting Effect on Project Culture.- Megaprojects to Mega-uncertainty
is About Risk Management to Perform.- How Calls for New Theory Might Address
Contemporary Issues Affecting the Management of Projects.- Can Hard Paradigm
Artefacts Support Soft Paradigm Imperatives? An Unpaired Comparative
Experiment to Determine Whether Visualisation of Data is an Effective
Collaboration and Communication Tool in Project Problem Solving.- Collusion
Within the UK Construction Industry, an Ethical Dilemma.- The Myth of the
Post Project Review.- The Tendency Towards Sub-optimal Operational Planning.-
Challenges of Projects Supporting Smart Cities' Development.- I Spy With My
Little Eye: Improving User Involvement in Elderly Care Facility Design
Through Virtual Reality.- Smart Enterprise Asset Management.- Strategic
Management of Assets and Compliance Through the Application of Bim and
Digital Twins: A Platform for Innovation in Building Management.- BIM
Education Through Problem-based Learning Exercise: Challenges and
Opportunities in an Inter-professional Module.- Investigating the Trinity
Between Sustainability and BIM - Lean Synergy: A Systematic Review of
Existing Studies.- Management Policy for Laboratory Electronic Waste From
Grave to Cradle.- The Place of Urban Forestry in Our Viable Urban Futures A
Cosmetic or a Metaphysic?.- Illicit Crops, Planning of Substitution With
Sustainable Crops Basedon Remote Sensing. Application in the Sierra Nevada of
Santa Marta Colombia.- Bibliometric Study on Particle Emissions of Natural
and Alternative Building Materials.- Social Acceptance and Societal Readiness
to EVs.- Transport and Waste: Killing Two Birds With One Stone the
Sustainable Energy.
Christopher Gorse is Director of Leeds Sustainability Institute, Head of the Centre for the Built Environment and Professor of Construction and Project Management at Leeds Beckett University. He is an Engineering Professors Council Member, Chartered Builder, Vice Chair for the Association of Researchers In Construction Management leading research projects in the energy, sustainability and building performance. Chris is an established author with publications in management, law, construction and refurbishment. While working in the construction industry, he operated as an engineer and project manager working on both building and civil engineering projects and continues to undertake legal and technical consultancy. Lloyd M. Scott is a Professor of Practice in the Construction Science Division at the University of Oklahoma. He is also a practicing academic at the Technological University Dublin (formerly the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)). He attended DIT as a trade apprentice in Carpentry and Joinery and later qualified with a City and Guilds certificate in Site Management, where he worked in the industry as site superintendent for some years. Lloyd was a scholarship recipient at the University of Limerick where he earned a B.Tech (Hons) in Wood and Building Technology in 1988. He received a MA in Educational Management at Waterford Institute of Technology and a PhD from The School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford. Dr. Scott worked in construction as a site superintendent for a large contracting company in Dublin for many years. He continues to perform select projects, and provide consulting services with the emphasis on sustainable construction practice. Before becoming associated with the University of Oklahoma in 2009, he had spent the previous nine years in the newly formed Construction Management (CM) Department at DIT where he set up the CM program. He has been recognized for his efforts with students in and out of the classroom, has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals and has completed various externally funded projects. His research interests revolve around sustainability in construction and educational assessment in built environment. Professor Scott is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Construction Education and Research and also serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation and The Mass Timber Journal. Colin Booth has been the Associate Head for Research and Scholarship for Architecture and the Built Environment since joining the University of the West of England in early 2012. He has also been a Director of the Construction and Property Research Centre, and a Director of the Centre for Floods, Communities and Resilience. He has previously been the Research Leader for a School of Built Environment, a Reader in Construction Management, a Reader in Civil Engineering, an Overseas Tutor (Hong Kong), a Senior Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering, a European Research Project Manager and he has also held several Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship posts at other universities. He holds the distinguished titles of Visiting Professor of Civil Engineering and Visiting Professor of Sustainability at prestigious international universities. Mohammad Dastbaz is the Deputy Vice Chancellor at University of Suffolk. Professor Dastbazs research work over recent years has been focused on the use and impact of emerging technologies in society, particularly learning, training and the development of eGovernment. Dr. Dastbaz has led EU and UK based funded research projects and has been the Symposium Chair of Multimedia Systems in IEEEs Information Visualisation (IV) conference since 2002. He has over 50 refereed publications, including numerous journal paper articles, conference papers, book chapters and books on e-learning, eGovernment and the design and development of Multimedia Systems. Professor Dastbaz is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and UKs Higher Education Academy as well as the professional member of ACM and IEEE Computer Society.
