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Kate Carter
Researcher at Edinburgh College of Art
Publications - 22
Citations - 338
Kate Carter is an academic researcher from Edinburgh College of Art. The author has contributed to research in topics: Living lab & Procurement. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 22 publications receiving 298 citations. Previous affiliations of Kate Carter include University of Edinburgh.
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Sustainable BIM-based evaluation of buildings
Ibrahim Motawa,Kate Carter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual BIM-based model that can improve the post-occupancy evaluation process and meet the industry requirements for sustainable buildings is introduced, which can be used to monitor the behaviour of buildings and make critical decisions to ensure that the energy criteria of the design are really met in practice.
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Green maintenance for historic masonry buildings: an emerging concept
TL;DR: In this paper, a model for evaluating the efficacy of maintenance interventions for historic buildings is proposed, utilizing material life cycle data and "cradle-to-site" techniques for embodied CO2 determination.
Diagrammatic Representations of Sustainability – a Review and Synthesis
Kate Carter,Stuart Moir +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an extensive review of existing pictorial models of sustainability was conducted in order to determine their propriety in relation to the sustainability concept, and it was determined that none of these diagrammatic representations adequately consider all of the key constituent elements of sustainability, namely: its notional dimensions of environment, society and economy; space and time; and the need for active participation in its implementation.
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A framework for specifying natural hydraulic lime mortars for masonry construction
Alan Mark Forster,Kate Carter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual and practical framework for the determination of suitable lime mortars for repair and construction of masonry structures, drawing and building on relevant, literature and existing best practice guidance on specification is presented.
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Perceived Comfort and Adaptive Process of Passivhaus ‘Participants’
Jing Zhao,Kate Carter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the behavioral and psychological adaptive processes that contribute to the perceived comfort of Passivhaus occupants, and found that there is a strong correlation between social aspects of comfort and the participants' evaluation of their passivhaus.