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Lindfield, P. and Talkes, D. eds. 2026. Revivalism and architecture: referencing and reworking history. London: Routledge.
Abd. Salam, N. N. 2026. Optimisation of light shelf for daylight-thermal balance and climate change impact in a hot and humid climate using machine learning. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Aelbrecht, W. 2026. Mind the information gap! Constructing counter-narratives for urban planning in Detroit's photobooks. Social and Cultural Geography 27 (1), pp.41-65. (10.1080/14649365.2025.2522655)
Aelbrecht, W. and Bowie, L. 2026. Through the camera lens: the role of photography in shaping planning histories. Planning Perspectives 41 (1), pp.167-184. (10.1080/02665433.2025.2568626)
Al Qutub, R. et al., 2026. Assessing Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) challenges in autism schools: insights from Saudi Arabia′s eastern region. Indoor Air 2026 (1) 6946065. (10.1155/ina/6946065)
Al Qutub, R. et al., 2026. Impact of indoor environment quality on autistic behaviours in autism schools of Saudi Arabia. Environmental Pollution 397 127992. (10.1016/j.envpol.2026.127992)
Al-Harasis, D. and Jabi, W. 2026. Benchmark-guided graph repair for compliance-oriented spatial layout networks. Presented at: The International Conference on Digital Frontiers in Buildings and Infrastructure (DFBI2026) Spain, Barcelona 30 March - 1 April 2026. Proceedings of Digital Frontiers in Buildings and Infrastructure International Conference Series. DFBI.
Al-Harasis, D. , Kasem, M. and Oates, R. 2026. Experiences of disability: interdisciplinary insights co-design benefits and best practice event summary report. Cardiff University
Aldagany, M. , Jabi, W. and Latif, E. 2026. Spatial configuration and emergency department performance: a review of space syntax applications. Buildings
Alharbi, F. 2026. Walkable urbanism: a framework for thermally comfortable and walkable neighbourhoods in hot-arid climates. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Arslan, D. et al., 2026. Transforming 1920-1940s housing to minimise energy use and optimise comfort. Presented at: CIBSE Technical Symposium 2026 Loughborough, UK 26-27 March 2026. CIBSE Technical Symposium 2026, March 2026. CIBSE.
Badyina, A. , Golubchikov, O. and Bleil De Souza, C. 2026. Humanising smart homes: For lived praxis in the digital age. Energy Research and Social Science 135 104677. (10.1016/j.erss.2026.104677)
Balzano, B. et al. 2026. Pro-active adaptation of existing masonry buildings in response to climate change induced risk of subsidence. Presented at: International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions Lausanne, Switzerland 15-17 September 2025. Published in: Saloustros, S. and Beyer, K. eds. Proceedings of SAHC 2025. Vol. 64.RILEM Bookseries Springer Nature Switzerland. , pp.2212-2220. (10.1007/978-3-032-13469-1_176)
Bayraktar Sari, A. O. and Jabi, W. 2026. A BIM-embedded computational workflow for spatial graph analysis of architectural floor plans. Architecture 6 (2) 76. (10.3390/architecture6020076)
Bayraktar Sari, A. O. and Jabi, W. 2026. A computational bim-based spatial analysis method for the evaluation of emergency department layouts. Presented at: European Healthcare Design 2026 London, UK 15–17 June 2026.
Bayraktar Sari, A. O. and Jabi, W. 2026. Computational building information modelling-based methods for spatial analysis in architectural design. Presented at: 20th International Conference on Design Principles & Practices Rome, Italy 25–27 February 2026.
Bayraktar Sari, A. O. and Jabi, W. 2026. Graph-based representations of architectural floor plans: a systematic review towards designing spatial experiences. Presented at: 16th International Conference on The Constructed Environment Pamplona, Spain 14-15 May 2026.
Bleil de Souza, C. et al. 2026. Smart social housing: Ideal smart solutions vs. real-world compromises. Zenodo(10.5281/zenodo.18661384)
Bleil De Souza, C. et al., 2026. The smart retrofit transition: integrating digital solutions in social housing. [Online].Build Up. Available at: https://build-up.ec.europa.eu/en/resources-and-tools/articles/smart-retrofit-transition-integrating-digital-solutions-social-housing?from=03.
Chatzivasileiadi, A. et al. 2026. Digital Twin-oriented workflows for building energy modeling: Balancing Level of Detail, data resolution, and model accuracy. Presented at: SimBuild 2026 Minneapolis, MN, USA 20-22 May 2026. Proceedings of SimBuild Conference 2026. IBPSA. , pp.570-582. (10.26868/30680611.2026.1339)
Chaudhary, D. R. and Sharmin, T. 2026. Evaluating the impact of Jaali façades on building energy demand in Jaipur's hot semi-arid climate. Sustainability 18 (8) 3876. (10.3390/su18083876)
Cheng, J. et al. 2026. Numerical simulation and experimental validation of the thermal environment in river-crossing cable tunnels: Influence of soil thermal conductivity. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 178 (2) 111614. (10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2026.111614)
Chopra, K. et al., 2026. Associations between space-use behaviour and temperature-humidity index in barn-housed dairy cows. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 299 106965. (10.1016/j.applanim.2026.106965)
Cooper, C. et al. 2026. Individual utilities of life satisfaction reveal inequality aversion unrelated to political alignment. Social Indicators Research 183 12. (10.1007/s11205-026-03854-4)
Davis, J. et al. 2026. Engaging with economic wellbeing: Report to Cardiff Capital Region. Project Report.London/ Cardiff: University College London/ Cardiff University.
El Faouri, B. F. and Sibley, M. 2026. Policy implications beyond 2030 for culture as a standalone sustainable development goal. Sustainability 18 (5) 2426. (10.3390/su18052426)
Gao, A. et al., 2026. Does living alone reshape healthcare use? Longitudinal evidence from older adults in China. BMC Primary Care 27 38. (10.1186/s12875-025-03164-7)
Guan, T. et al., 2026. Integrated impacts of cool coatings, street orientations, and height variability on urban cooling in 3D high-rise building arrays: CFD simulation. Sustainable Cities and Society 137 107127. (10.1016/j.scs.2026.107127)
Han, Y. et al., 2026. In-depth analysis of the thermal environment and adaptive thermal mitigation strategies in arid-hot tourist attractions. Urban Climate 67 102874. (10.1016/j.uclim.2026.102874)
Inam, A. 2026. Frontstage/backstage in Las Vegas: A metaphorical approach toward understanding spatial inequality in the contemporary city. In: Zillur Morshed, A. ed. Spatial (In)Justice: How Does It Manifest in the Built Environment?. Wiley. , pp.89-98. (10.1002/9781394294695.ch3.3)
Jing, S. et al., 2026. An investigation on the impact of urban renewal on historical and cultural elements of Dongguan Street based on a space syntax approach. Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (10.1080/13467581.2026.2676393)
Kamalipour, H. 2026. Forms of informal urbanism: comparative explorations in southern urbanism. Presented at: Welsh School of Architecture Cardiff, UK 19 March 2026.
Kamalipour, H. and Peimani, N. 2026. Participatory storytelling: exploring youth perspectives on urban transformation. Presented at: Sixteenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment Pamplona, Spain 14-15 May 2026.
Kamalipour, H. and Peimani, N. 2026. Towards an adaptive and responsive pedagogy for urban design [Abstract]. Presented at: Twentieth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices Rome, Italy 25-27 February 2026.
Kasem, M. 2026. Same building, different perception.
Katsikakis, D. , Worthington, J. and Patel, H. 2026. The enduring legacy of DEGW – Despina Katsikakis with Prof John Worthington and Dr Hiral Patel. [Video podcast]. DEGW. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bho7D144B0.
Kerrai, A. et al., 2026. Tir Aikyam: Creating an environmental stewardship framework for a living eco-spiritual centre. In: Sharma, V. C. , Varma, A. and Duan, Q. L. eds. Sacred Landscapes: Indigenous Spatial Frameworks for Contemporary Practice. Religion and Spatial Studies Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan
Latif, E. and Jain, V. 2026. State-of-the-art of net-zero building standards and benchmarks in India: a comprehensive review with notable case studies. Energy and Buildings 350 116679. (10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.116679)
Li, J. et al., 2026. The life-cycle carbon footprint of tall buildings: Insights from a high-density city. Building and Environment 295 114417. (10.1016/j.buildenv.2026.114417)
Li, K. 2026. Investigating the whole-life carbon reduction potential of new urban high-rise residential buildings in the northeastern cold region of China using a tailored consequential life cycle carbon assessment. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Lin, B. et al. 2026. Adoption of deep generative models in architectural and urban-form generation. Journal of Urban Technology (10.1080/10630732.2026.2615612)
Lindfield, P. 2026. Arthurian art, illustration and material culture, 1500–1800. In: Radulescu, R. and Lynch, A. eds. The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture. Vol. 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.369-392. (10.1017/9781009031684.019)
Lindfield, P. 2026. A.W.N. Pugin and St George’s: the rejected cathedral. St George's Chronicle 2
Lindfield, P. 2026. Graphic Imagination: Reviving the ‘Ripon School’ style. In: Lindfield, P. and Talkes, D. eds. Revivalism and Architecture: Referencing and Reworking History. London: Routledge
Lindfield, P. 2026. Historia Rediviva: Architectural afterlives. In: Lindfield, P. and Talkes, D. eds. Revivalism and Architecture: Referencing and Reworking History. London: Routledge
Lindfield, P. 2026. Pugin’s second chance: the St George’s competition. St George's Chronicle 3
Maaith, N. and Sharmin, T. 2026. Socio-technical drivers of energy use in low-income housing in Jordan: insights from a regression-based study. Building Research & Information 54 (4), pp.510-533. (10.1080/09613218.2025.2606376)
Malet Lambert, I. et al. 2026. Exploring public discourse about new cycle lanes and low-traffic neighbourhoods using Twitter/X data. Travel Behaviour and Society 42 101128. (10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101128)
Malet Lambert, I. et al. 2026. Preferences for urban street space reallocation to encourage cycling: A Best-Worst Scaling profile case approach. Travel Behaviour and Society 43 101205. (10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101205)
Marchesi, M. et al. 2026. Technical barriers to circular economy implementation in the built environment: a problem-based multi-level review. Sustainable Cities and Society 145 107380. (10.1016/j.scs.2026.107380)
Megahed, Y. 2026. Architectural fusion: ideas migration, cross-culturalism and modern forms of eclecticism—the case of mosque architecture. In: Polimeni, B. and Megahed, Y. eds. Cross-Cultural Landscapes: Investigating the Influence of Migration on Cities and Architecture. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. , pp.125-140. (10.1007/978-3-032-09015-7_7)
Morewood, J. , Patterson, J. and Perisoglou, E. 2026. Planning whole house energy retrofits in social housing – investigating stakeholder needs to ensure effective and efficient decision making. Presented at: CIBSE Technical Symposium 2026 Loughborough, UK 26-27 March 2026.
Ntzani, D. 2026. Preface. In: Lindfield, P. and Talkes, D. eds. Revivalism and Architecture: Referencing and Reworking History. London: Routledge
Onyekwere, C. E. , Stevenson, V. and Whitman, C. 2026. Towards circular economy: the role of informal waste workers in construction and demolition waste management in Nigeria. Presented at: International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) 2022 Leeds, UK 31 August - 2 September 2022. Published in: Booth, C. et al., Sustainability Across the Built and Natural Environments: Selected Papers from the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) 2022. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. , pp.417-424. (10.1007/978-3-031-94316-4_29)
Pack, V. E. , Davis, J. and Gonsalves, K. 2026. Towards a climate-positive Olympics: evolving approaches to staging the games. In: Garcia-Hansen, V. et al., Human-Building Interaction: The Nexus of Architecture, Building Science and Interaction Design. [Human-Building Interaction: The Nexus of Architecture, Building Science and Interaction Design]. Springer Series in Adaptive Environments Switzerland: Springer. , pp.147-172. (10.1007/978-3-032-16863-4_6)
Palaneer, L. and Sharmin, T. 2026. Designing inclusive public spaces: addressing agoraphobia and safety-seeking behaviour through urban design. Cities & Health 10 (2), pp.476-490. (10.1080/23748834.2025.2553261)
Parkin, N. et al. 2026. ‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning. British Educational Research Journal (10.1002/berj.70103)
Parkin, N. et al. 2026. Development and validation of the School Contexts of Outdoor Learning (SCOOL) scale. Journal of Environmental Psychology 112 103034. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103034)
Patterson, J. , Perisoglou, E. and Ionas, M. 2026. From design to reality: Long term performance of new build, low-carbon affordable homes. (10.5281/zenodo.18695688)
Peimani, N. and Kamalipour, H. 2026. Co-producing place narratives: participatory visual storytelling through the lens of youth. Visual Studies 41 (2), pp.469-476. (10.1080/1472586X.2025.2524374)
Peimani, N. and Kamalipour, H. 2026. Spatiality of street vending: Informal places and gendered public spaces in Tehran. London, UK: Routledge. (10.4324/9781003435419)
Perera, D. et al., 2026. Exploring the role of an eco-feedback system in shaping household consumption to encourage sustainable practices in everyday life. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies 4 (2) 7. (10.1145/3801743)
Poortinga, W. , Xenias, D. and Potoglou, D. 2026. Why do people support or oppose bike lanes? Our research sheds light on public opinion. [Online].The Conversation. (10.64628/AB.wx7m7nmnj)Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.wx7m7nmnj.
Sharmin, T. and Chappell, A. 2026. Detecting the changing impact of urbanisation on urban heat islands in a tropical megacity using local climate zones. Energy and Built Environment 7 (3), pp.602-616. (10.1016/j.enbenv.2025.02.002)
Su, Y. et al., 2026. Data-driven microclimate analysis for thermal comfort optimization in arid-hot urban blocks. Sustainable Cities and Society 143 107334. (10.1016/j.scs.2026.107334)
Su, Y. et al., 2026. Nonlinear impact of urban morphological characteristics on air pollutants in dry-hot regions from the perspective of spatial type differences. Sustainable Cities and Society 144 107415. (10.1016/j.scs.2026.107415)
Tadrak, W. , Chatzivasileiadi, A. and Patterson, J. 2026. Evaluating retrofit simulation accuracy: A case study of six Welsh homes [Abstract]. Presented at: Eighteenth IAMC Annual Meeting 2025 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 11-13 Nov 2025.
Talkes, D. 2026. Introduction: The essays. In: Lindfield, P. and Talkes, D. eds. Revivalism and Architecture: Referencing and Reworking History. London: Routledge
Thinh, N. K. , Kamalipour, H. and Peimani, N. 2026. The image of informal settlements: A visibility mapping in the Global South. Habitat International 168 103700. (10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103700)
Tirotto, F. A. et al. 2026. Psychological and contextual drivers of indoor air quality behaviours in a deprived urban community: Evidence from participatory research. Building and Environment 289 114089. (10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.114089)
Trimmis, K. P. et al., 2026. Exploring local and regional dynamics in the Bronze Age Kythera Island, Greece, through an analytical approach on archaeological data from Kataphygadi cave. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 73 105798. (10.1016/j.jasrep.2026.105798)
Wang, A. et al., 2026. Precise control of district heating secondary networks: a dynamic simulation approach with room temperature feedback. Energy Conversion and Management 353 121217. (10.1016/j.enconman.2026.121217)
Wang, W. et al., 2026. Indoor thermal comfort analysis during dynamic frosting-defrosting process of air source heat pumps. Building and Environment 289 114100. (10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.114100)
Wang, Y. et al., 2026. Deconstructing the evolution of historical urban landscapes: a multidimensional layering approach. Land 15 (5) 869. (10.3390/land15050869)
Wei, S. et al. 2026. Personal air pollution exposure assessment with schoolchildren in rural Wales. Journal of Environmental Management 397 128291. (10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.128291)
Wei, W. et al., 2026. Experimental investigation of indoor thermal environment dynamics during the frosting-defrosting process of air source heat pumps. Energy and Buildings 353 116849. (10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.116849)
Whitman, C. , Maddalena, R. and Alhamdan, A. 2026. Hygrothermal monitoring of timber-frame replacement infill panels: Material testing and extended monitoring. Project Report.[Online].Historic England. Available at: https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/68-2025.
Wu, Z. et al., 2026. Evaluation of latent heat flux simulation in the Noah Land Surface Model coupled with a single-layer urban canopy model: Insights from scaled outdoor experiments with tree evapotranspiration. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 123 129549. (10.1016/j.ufug.2026.129549)
Wulff, F. and Javed Shah, S. 2026. Intercultural threshold urbanism (ITU): A relational ecology for dialogical reciprocity across Latitudes. Presented at: LATITUDES. Situated reflections on architectural research Umea University (Sweden) 10-13 June 2026. Proceedings of EURAU26: LATITUDES – Situated reflections on architectural research. Vol. I.Umeå University (Sweden): Press Umeå University. , pp.476-482.
Zapata-Lancaster, G. and Ionas, M. 2026. Balancing indoor CO2 concentration levels and thermal comfort: actions in primary school classrooms. Presented at: International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) 2022 Leeds, UK 31 August - 2 September 2022. Published in: Booth, C. et al., Sustainability Across the Built and Natural Environments: Selected Papers from the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) 2022. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. , pp.89-102. (10.1007/978-3-031-94316-4_6)
Zapata-Lancaster, G. and Parra-Ullauri, A. 2026. Indoor environmental quality assessment through participatory methods. Presented at: International Structural Engineering and Construction Quito, Ecuador 23 - 26 March 2026. Published in: Villacís, E. et al., Proceedings of International Structural Engineering and Construction. Vol. 13.Vol. 1. ISEC Press. (10.14455/ISEC.2026.13(1).EPE-15)
Zapata-Lancaster, G. and Smith, T. A. 2026. Children’s perspectives on classroom environments: A participatory post-occupancy evaluation of thermal comfort and air quality. Building Research & Information (10.1080/09613218.2026.2644939)
Zhang, C. et al., 2026. A critical review and future perspectives: How to define, assess, improve, and optimize the energy resilience for building energy systems by generalized flexible energy resources?. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 233 116814. (10.1016/j.rser.2026.116814)
Zhang, C. et al., 2026. Novel energy consumption forecasting method employing weighted occupant behavior probabilities and physics-informed network with thermodynamic constrain in office buildings. Energy 342 139761. (10.1016/j.energy.2025.139761)

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