Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Sustainable Development and Urban Spaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Significance of Social Sustainability

      • J. L. Sturges

      Pages 3-13

   3. Urbanisation and the Built Environment: Exploring How the Built Environment Can Enhance the Health and Wellbeing of the People Living in Urban Slums

      • Lilian Nwanyisonde Smart, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard Haigh

      Pages 15-33

   4. Future Cities: The Role of Biomimicry Architecture in Improving Livability in Megacities and Mitigating Climate Change Risks

      • Samaa E. Helmy, Mohsen M. Aboulnaga

      Pages 35-49

   5. Sustainable Development and Management of Low-Volume Road Networks in Australia

      • Thomas Franzen, David Thorpe

      Pages 51-63

   6. A Community-Driven Nature-Based Design Framework for the Regeneration of Neglected Urban Public Spaces

      • Gloria Osei, Alison Pooley, Federica Pascale

      Pages 65-81

   7. Does the Planning System in England Deliver a Sustainable and Resilient Built Environment? A Study of the Experience of Town Planners

      • Niamh Murtagh, Nezhapi-Delle Odeleye, Chris Maidment

      Pages 83-91

   8. Sustainability Assessments of Urban Railway Systems: Case Study Evaluations in Turkey

      • Müge Yüksel, Ali Murat Tanyer, Mehmet Koray Pekeriçli

      Pages 93-104

   9. Perceptions of Teletubbyland: Public Opinions of SuDS Devices Installed at Eco-designed Motorway Service Areas

      • Mark Gazzard, Colin A. Booth

      Pages 105-116

   10. A Decision Support System for Affordable and Sustainable Housing Design and Delivery in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

       • John Bruen, John P. Spillane, Su Taylor

       Pages 117-129

   11. Are Construction Professionals Equipped with the Knowledge and Tools to Address the Sustainability Dilemma?

       • Paul Mundy, Colin A. Booth

       Pages 131-141

3. Sustainability Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Sustainability in Construction Management Education: A Case Study of Students’ Attitudes and Beliefs at Two CM Programmes in Ireland and United States

      • Lloyd Scott, Blake Wentz

      Pages 145-156

   3. Delivering Energy Savings for the Supply Chain Through Building Information Modelling as a Result of the Horizon 2020 Energy BIMcert Project

      • Barry McAuley, Avril Behan, Paul McCormack, Andrew Hamilton, Eduardo Rebelo, Barry Neilson et al.

      Pages 157-168

   4. The Application of Virtual Reality to Recreate an Interactive WW1 Camp

      • Stephen Wilkinson

      Pages 169-178

   5. The Need for the Inclusion of Construction Health and Safety (H&S) in Architectural Education

      • John Smallwood

      Pages 179-190

   6. Who Are the ‘Middle Actors’ in Sustainable Construction and What Do They Need to Know?

      • Alice Owen, Kathryn B. Janda, Kate Simpson

      Pages 191-204

   7. Developing a Best Practice Framework for Degree Apprenticeships in Civil Engineering: Initial Findings

      • Josie Rothera

      Pages 205-220

   8. User Satisfaction of a Green Star-Rated Literary Museum in South Africa

      • Kenneth M. Rampou, Sharon Dent, Gerrit J. Crafford, Katharina Crafford

      Pages 221-235

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.

• Sustainable building
• Smart city
• Smart building
• Green building
• Sustainable development
• Leeds Sustainability Institute
• Sustainable urbanism
• Sustainable cities
• Energy efficient buildings
• Sustainable engineering design
• Eco-cities
• Net zero building
• Building Information Modelling
• BIM

• Technological University Dublin, Dunboyne, Ireland

  Lloyd Scott

• University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK

  Mohammad Dastbaz

• Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

  Christopher Gorse

Mohammad Dastbaz, PhD, is the Deputy Vice Chancellor at University of Suffolk. Professor Dastbaz’s 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 IEEE’s 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 UK’s Higher Education Academy as well as the professional member of ACM and IEEE’s computer society.


Christopher Gorse, PhD, 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, PhD, 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 SiteManagement, 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.

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