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Ahern, E (2022) A framework for improving the process of building certification to enhance energy efficiency: the case of Ireland, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Akande, O K (2015) Factors influencing operational energy performance and refurbishment of UK listed church buildings: towards a strategic management framework, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Alkhraisha, A (2023) Approaches for enhancing the construction and demolition waste management strategy in Jordan, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Bispham, J (2008) Historic imported softwood in eastern England: past knowledge, current perceptions and conservation, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Burrell, P A (2017) Structural errors and failures in construction: is knowledge hidden?, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering & the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University.
Crabtree, P J (2014) The optimisation of construction management higher education to promote professional competencies and professional capability, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Engineering and the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University.
Crascall, L M (2021) Re-imagining built environment education: investigating the pracademic through autoethnography, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Gale, K (2013) An evaluation of performance improvement within public sector construction framework agreements, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Engineering and the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University.
Hobart, C (2019) Building sustainability assessment schemes: The role of criteria in translating aims into effect, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Muleya, F (2014) Modelling wheeled construction plant performance in clay and sandy terrain : a terramechanics perspective, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Engineering and the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University.
Powell, M J V (2003) Built environment and biblical theology: Making connections: Discerning relationships, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: biblical theology; built environment; Australia; UK
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- URL: https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272991
- Abstract:
The aim of this thesis is to relate 'biblical theology' to 'built environment' using specific biblical texts and built environment locations and by means of 'picture' and 'disclosure' models. Built environments are viewed at one level as everyday building activity and at a deeper level as embodiments of ideas and values, mirrors to human life. Similarly, at one level, biblical theology is simply the text of the Bible, while at a deeper level it is what is revealed by a complex text built up over time and through experience, interpreted in the contemporary world to give deep and archetypal insights into life. Two specific built environments, the Borough of Chelmsford in the UK and part of Tasmania, the island State of Australia, are investigated by means of texts and observation. Specific biblical materials selected from Genesis, Nehemiah, the Psalms, John's Gospel, the Epistles and Revelation are studied in depth. Both sets of specific studies are balanced by the study of more general works, mainly practical in the case of biblical theology and philosophical in the case of built environment. Sydney Opera House acts as both a 'picture' model, envisaging different Sections of the thesis as different parts of the building and as a 'disclosure' model. The 'disclosure' model is based on the fact that all the sail-like parts of Sydney Opera House are derived from a single sphere. It demonstrates coherence and unity between ten sets of built environment and biblical theology materials. Five sets travel from biblical theology to the built environment and five from the built environment to biblical theology. This dynamic travel is conceptualised through viewing the single sphere, not as concrete, but as light emanating from the centre point and reaching the surface of the sphere. The centre is seen as biblical theology and the surface as built environment. Between the two, centrifugal and centripetal forces operate. Following this detailed work with the 'disclosure' model, the thesis returns to the 'picture' model. In the penultimate Section, a wide-ranging, imaginative set of discussions is opened up, which engage with the mainly human aspects of the materials. In the final Section, a perspective is taken offshore from Sydney Opera House. This reviews the complex research process undertaken, draws attention to principal discoveries made, particularly those concerning the interaction of materials with models, and reflects on the potential of the work in terms of usefulness, generaIisability and contribution to knowledge. It argues that methodology and process have combined with the richness of the materials employed and the potential of the work, to constitute a revelatory and original thesis. Recommendations are made for further work on relating built environment and biblical theology, on relating biblical theology to other areas of contemporary life and built environment to, for example, the Koran, all coupled with further methodological and process developments.
Quarterman, M (2017) Acquisition of higher-order professional competencies: a new synergistic learning model, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering & the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University.
Talbot, B (2021) A novel data-driven tool to improve construction schedule accuracy, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Vohmann, B (2019) Authentic assessment to enhance undergraduates' learning and development as effective practitioners in built environment disciplines, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Zhao, Y (2016) Green supply chain management drivers/pressures, practices and performance in Chinese construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University.