Derek John Clements-Croome

University of Reading · School of Construction Management and Engineering

Our built environments can affect us in many subtle ways. Simply sensing fresh air and natural light or seeing greenery and open space can uplift our mood and improve our wellbeing. But these healthy environments are increasingly difficult to achieve in practice. The vital collaboration between the many people involved in designing and producing bu...

In the reliability literature, maintenance time is usually ignored during the optimization of maintenance policies. In some scenarios, costs due to system failures may vary with time, and the ignorance of maintenance time will lead to unrealistic results. This paper develops maintenance policies for such situations where the system under study oper...

Intelligent buildings need to be sustainable (i.e. sustain their performance for future generations), healthy and technologically up to date; meet regulatory demands; meet the needs of the occupants; and be flexible and adaptable enough to deal with change. Buildings will contain a variety of systems devised by many people, and yet the relationship...

Innovative technology can be used not only to achieve technical and economic performance, but also to contribute towards the sensitivity and the emotional effects of the built environment, argues Professor Derek Croome of the Department of Construction Management at the University of Reading. Selon le Professeur Derek Croome du Department of Constr...

The book has 18 chapters describing many facets of the design, management and delivery of intelligent buildings and infrastructure. It includes chapters on technology , nature built solutions, and how to incorporate human and social values into designs. The final chapters include case studies and a look into the future. The book considers the barri...

Biomimicry creates designs inspired by nature and uses ecological benchmarks to assess their sustainability. It is believed that biomimicry can help society produce and consume in more sustainable ways, as well as address some of the key challenges facing the world today. However, research into the applications of and possible barriers to using bio...

Cities are growing in size and number to accommodate the growing urban populations in spite of there being more homeworking since COVID-19. There is a basic human need for a social dynamic, and cities provide this whether people are living or working. Cities are like organisms pulsing with life bounded by economic, ecological, health and wellbeing...

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is an immense concern for people’s wellness. The central argument in this research is that the IEQ in a university research room impacts users and their health, well-being and productivity. In addition, the present study relies on the Flourish Wheel to enhance the environment using the Biophilic Design approach, w...

This research conducts a technical and economic feasibility study of multi-energy hybrid systems (MEHS) combining different renewables for a northern climate city of Finland to address issues of replacing fossil energy by renewable energy sources (RES) to achieve zero carbon emissions. The renewable energy systems MEHS include geothermal, biomass a...

Purpose This paper critically analysed 195 articles with the objectives of providing a clear understanding of the current City Information Modelling (CIM) implementations, identifying the main challenges hampering the uptake of CIM and providing recommendations for the future development of CIM. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts the PR...

As the urban populations increase, we must think more deeply about how to make cities less stressful and more creative for people to live in. Liveability and quality of life are key factors while designing and managing energy, water, pollution, and waste systems which are sustainable for the long term. The rapidly developing digital technologies ca...

Building energy management systems (BEMS) are integrated building automation and energy management systems, utilizing IT or ICT, intelligent and interoperable digital communication technologies promoting a holistic approach to controls and providing adaptive operational optimization. The system may have multiple levels from individual sensors and a...

Das Wort Komfort (Behaglichkeit) wird möglicherweise überstrapaziert. Es hat eine neutrale Qualität. Gewöhnlich wird es als ein angenehmer oder entspannter Zustand eines Menschen in Bezug auf seine Umwelt angesehen. Sicherlich ist dies aber nur ein Teil dessen, was wir zur Anregung und Konzentration des Geistes brauchen? Schließlich kann Komfort eh...

Environmental conscious building design involves the use of fabric for absorbing and distributing ambient energy. This paper reviews historical and current ideas from which an environmental design process can be evolved which aims to achieve comfortable but economical solutions to the interaction problems of climate, buildings and people. THE INFLU...

The main purpose of this study is to assess the indoor environmental quality of one of London’s most modern workplaces; it is one which uses the Biophilia design approach, bringing nature inside office buildings. To evaluate the occupants’ well-being, the research uses the Flourish wheel, which is based on both the built environment and the social...

Low energy building design is important if ambient energy sources and free heat from people and processes are to be effectively used and thus reduce the demand foe fossil fuels. Thermal insulation alone is not the answer. A combination of passive and active environmental control methods are necessary if energy collection and distribution are to be...

How can we design workplaces which occupants thrive in, which are functional but are also expressive? Drawing on research about the senses and office related studies this paper demonstrates how buildings can be designed to allow for positive multi-sensory experiences. In order to design a creative and productive workplace, it is essential to consid...

Sve je veći broj protivrečnosti koje donosi razvoj našeg društva i tehnologije, a koje se mogu rešiti pomoću sistematskog pristupa posmatranju ljudi, procesa i proizvoda kao generičke platforme za projektovanje zgrada. Zgrade se sastoje od ljuske, površinskog sloja, infrastrukture i čula, a zgrada, sistemi i ljudi treba da budu u interakciji. Intel...

Participants’ heart rates and skin conductance are measured while they work in their natural office environment. This is combined with measurement of background light levels, temperature, CO2 and sound levels. The analysis of these is split into two parts. The first suggests there are key differences between the senses: for component factors that a...

This is a paper updating the paper I wrote on this topic for BSERT in issue 1 volume 1 in 1980. The original paper set out the causes of failure in building design as being due to various issues such as an inadequate brief, lack of data, poor communication, inadequate analysis or synthesis, quirks of human behaviour which could all contribute. Syst...

Intelligent buildings present a number of challenges. They must be responsive to people’s needs including their health and wellbeing; be sustainable in the use of resources as well as incorporating the most useful parts of the evolving technologies. The Roadmap reviews these demands including the relationship of intelligent buildings to the infras...

Intelligent buildings present a number of challenges. They must be responsive to people’s needs including their health and wellbeing; be sustainable in the use of resources as well as incorporating the most useful parts of the evolving technologies. The Roadmap reviews these demands including the relationship of intelligent buildings to the infras...

There is a lack of a systematic decision-making criterion to select appropriate indicators for Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) analysis due to the fact that significant levels of various POE determinants are indeterminate. The present work aims to identify the degree of importance of a set of POE determinants based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AH...

Health and well-being are vitally important aspects of people centric building design and are the roots of productivity. Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a collection of factors that can negatively affect physical health in several ways. Besides physical health is also related to psychological well-being because the human body is one interactive bio...

ARCHITECTURAL SCIENCE REVIEW Newsletter SECOND quarter 2018 Volume 4 No 2

Antonovski describes salutogenic environments as ones which help to stimulate the mind. The qualities of the environment together with the people within it affect human physical and mental performance and these qualities should always be given a high priority. Well-being depends on the management ethos of the organisation, the social ambience and p...

Employers are recognising that good health is a total business issue, and a lack of it affects work performance. A number of personal factors, which depend on the physical and mental health of an individual, and a number of external factors, which depend on the physical and social environment besides the work-related systems of management, influenc...

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

In the last decade, there has been an undoubtedly rising interest in the field of intelligent and smart built environments from design and construction to management, operational and governance perspectives. These recent endeavors, observed at both academic and professional levels, can be classified into city, neighborhood and building scales. In t...

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Building energy management systems (BEMS) are integrated building automation and energy management systems, utilizing IT or ICT, intelligent and interoperable digital communication technologies promoting a holistic approach to controls and providing adaptive operational optimization. The system may have multiple levels from individual sensors and a...

As the urban populations increase we have to think more deeply about how to make cities less stressful and more creative for people to live in. Liveability and quality of life are key factors while designing and managing energy, water, pollution, and waste systems which are sustainable for the long term. The rapidly developing digital technologies...

Buildings account for more than 40% of total energy consumption in most countries and more than 55% of this energy is used by heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) systems. This significant energy demand, together with the global need to impose energy-efficiency measures, underlines the importance of selecting the most a...

Urbanization increased population density in cities and consequently leads to severe indoor air pollution. As a result of these trends, the issue of sustainable and healthy indoor environment has received increasing attention. Various air filtration techniques have been adopted to optimize indoor air quality. Air filtration technique can remove air...

To quantify the environmental impacts of building construction, many environmental assessment methods for measuring building performance have been proposed worldwide, such as BREEAM (UK), LEED (US) and Green Star (AU). However, much debate exists about the efficacy of these international assessment tools in measuring building performance outside th...

The physical environment leads to a thermal sensation that is perceived and appraised by occupants. The present study focuses on the relationship between sensation and evaluation. We asked 166 people to recall a thermal event from their recent past. They were then asked how they evaluated this experience in terms of 10 different emotions (frustrate...

This article focuses on one of the case studies in the Carbon Brainprint research project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Chatterton, J., D. Parsons, J. Nicholls, P. Longhurst, M. Bernon, A. Palmer, F. Brennan, et al. 2015. “Carbon Brainprint – An Estimate of the Intellectual Contribution of Research Institutions to Redu...

The physical environment leads to a thermal sensation, which is then evaluated by building occupants. The present study focusses on the relationship between sensation and evaluation. We asked 166 people to recall a thermal event from their recent past. They were then asked how they evaluated this experience in terms of ten different emotions (frust...

The principal goal of this article is to make clear the multiple pathways through which the built environment is having a potential effect on the occupants’ physical and psychological health, well-being and performance. Reviewing the previous research literature on built environment and public health, high-quality environment design is an investmen...

In recent years, the notion of intelligent buildings (IBs) has become increasingly popular due to their potentials for deploying design initiatives and emerging technologies towards maximized occupants’ comfort and well-being with sustainable design. However, various definitions, interpretations, and implications regarding the essence of IBs exist....

Occupant density is an important and basic metric of space use efficiency. It affects user experience of privacy, crowding and satisfaction. The effect of agile working has been two fold. Firstly, offices have an increasing range of workspace settings such as break out space, collaborative space and contemplative space in contrast to the traditiona...

a power point presentation on Creative and productive workplaces

The built environment affects our well-being and this in turn influences our effectiveness in the workplace. Poor environments contribute to absenteeism and to people not working as well as they might. This is an enormous cost to the nation. High-quality environmental design is an investment, as occupants are healthier, staff-retention rates are hi...

Research and innovation have considerable, currently unquantified potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by, for example, increasing energy efficiency. Furthermore, the process of knowledge transfer in itself can have a significant impact on reducing emissions, by promoting awareness and behavioural change. The concept of the ‘carbon brainpri...

TM57: Integrated School Design Schools should offer a safe, comfortable, and stimulating environment for learning and social interaction. New and refurbished schools should create spaces where discomfort and functional problems are avoided. The design team, through spatial, fabric and system design, should aim to create an environment with optimum...

The Report examines how the built environment affects our well-being and this in turn influences our work effectiveness in the workplace. Poor environments contribute to absenteeism and also to people not working as well as they might which is referred to as presenteeism. This is an enormous cost to the UK whereas good design could save in the orde...

Throughout history clean air, sunlight, sound and water have been fundamental to the needs of people. Today, sensitive control of these needs may use either traditional or new solutions, or a blend of these, but we have to remember that the built environment is fundamental to mankind’s sense of well-being and it is the totality of this idea that we...