Yusuf Arayici

Published: Feb 15, 2017 by Journal of Property Management
Authors: Pitros Charalambos, Yusuf Arayici
Subjects: Built Environment

The study looks at the characteristics of upswings and downswings for UK housing cycles. Specifically, the purpose of the study is to empirically analyse cycles in house prices and housing affordability on the characteristics of persistence, magnitude and severity.

Published: Mar 20, 2016 by International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis
Authors: Pitros Charalambos, Yusuf Arayici
Subjects: Built Environment

The purpose of this paper is to provide a decision support model for the early diagnosis of housing bubbles in the UK during the maturity process of the phenomenon. The development process of the model is divided into four stages. These stages are driven by the normal distribution theorem coupled with the case study approach. The application of normal distribution theory is allowed through the usage of several parametric tools.

Published: May 12, 2015 by Structural Survey
Authors: Read, L and Arayici, Y

The majority of insulation in buildings is man-made petroleum based products with limited or no-end life usage. This paper introduces soap based insulation from recycled materials as a sustainable alternative to petroleum counterparts. The methodology is lab based experimentation and iterative tests. The phased based research process for the incremental development of the soap based thermal insulation is explained.

Published: Sep 15, 2014 by Global Built Environment Review
Authors: Arayici, Y
Subjects: Built Environment

paper aims to review the knowledge intensive regeneration context with examples around the world, elaborates on the Mediacity case study project in Salford Quays and critically compare the Mediacity project with the Egan wheel to explore its contribution to sustainable communities vision.

Published: Jun 15, 2014 by International Journal of 3D Information Modelling
Authors: Arayici, Y and ozturk, Z
Subjects: Built Environment

This paper aims to discuss the knowledge intensive regeneration model in relation to the sustainable communities in order to highlight the level of match and conformance between them in order to justify the suitability of knowledge intensive regeneration for the sustainable communities' vision.

Published: Apr 21, 2013 by Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Authors: Yusuf Arayıcı, Paul Coates
Subjects: Built Environment

In this paper, the learning experience derived from a KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) project of BIM adoption and Implementation between the University of Salford and John McCall Architects (JMA) in Liverpool, UK is reviewed and discussed.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 by Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
Authors: Khosrowshahi, F and Arayici, Y
Subjects: Built Environment

This paper aims to diagnose UK’s construction industry to develop a clear understanding about BIM adoption and to form an imperative step of consolidating collective movements towards wider BIM implementation and to provide strategies and recommendations for the UK construction industry for BIM implementation.

Published: Sep 05, 2012 by in: Virtual Reality - Human Computer Interaction , InTech
Authors: Arayici, Y and Coates, P
Subjects: Built Environment

The building industry is under great pressure to provide value for money, sustainable infrastructure, etc. and this has propelled the adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology. Owners can anticipate greater efficiency and cost savings in the design, construction and operation of facilities with the adoption of BIM

Published: May 18, 2012 by Journal of Information Technology in Construction
Authors: Arayici, Y, Egbu, CO and Coates, P
Subjects: Built Environment

This paper aims to show how BIM adoption for an architectural company helps to mitigate the management and communication problems in remote construction project. The paper adopts a case study methodology, which is a UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project of BIM adoption between the University of Salford, UK and John McCall Architects (JMA), in which the BIM use between the architectural company and the main contractor for a remote construction project is elaborated and justified

Published: Apr 01, 2012 by International Journal of 3D Information Modelling
Authors: Coates, P and Arayici, Y
Subjects: Built Environment

The BIM implementation approach in the KTP used a socio-technical view that considered both the implementation of technology and its socio-cultural environment. The adoption and optimisation used the action research oriented qualitative and quantitative research for discovery, comparison, and experimentation it provided for “learning by doing.”

By: Yusuf Arayici
Subjects: Built Environment

Homes should be insulated with soap, according to scientists.

Experts at Salford University say that bars of soap are the ideal material for keeping indoors toasty - and are kinder on the environment, too.

uilding researchers at the university have been trying to find cheap, green alternatives to polystyrene and polythene-based insulation.

They say that giant bars of soap made out of animal waste or vegetable fat could be just as efficient at keeping heat locked inside.

Yusuf Arayici and Lee Read say that current materials derived from crude oil are costly to produce.

In researching their soap solution, they experimented with different materials and found introducing straw and bubbles - using the same method for making Aero and Wispa chocolate bars - to reduce the bulk of the finished product.

The pair have now patented their idea and hope that it will now be taken up by the building industry.

Dr Arayici said: “Insulation does reduce carbon emissions, but by making it out of oil we take a huge chunk out of the overall savings.”