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Structural Material Demand and Associated Embodied Carbon Emissions of the United States Building Stock: 2020-2100

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Arehart, J., Pomponi, F., D'Amico, B., & Srubar, W. (2022)

Structural Material Demand and Associated Embodied Carbon Emissions of the United States Building Stock: 2020-2100. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 186, Article 106583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106583

This study uses material flow analysis to estimate the material stocks and flows and associated upfront embodied carbon emissions for gravity building structural systems in th...

Special issue on Sustainable Structures: Whole-life analysis, environmental impacts, and material efficiency

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D'Amico, B., & Pomponi, F. (2022)

Special issue on Sustainable Structures: Whole-life analysis, environmental impacts, and material efficiency. Structures, 38, 225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2022.02.010

Environmental benefits of material-efficient design: a hybrid life cycle assessment of a plastic milk bottle

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Pomponi, F., Li, M., Saint, R., Lenzen, M., & D'Amico, B. (2022)

Environmental benefits of material-efficient design: a hybrid life cycle assessment of a plastic milk bottle. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 30, 1044-1052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2022.01.028

Over a million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute, 20,000 every second. While there is agreement that single-use plastics should be phased out, records o...

Life cycle assessment of 61 ducted gas heating upgrades in Australia

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Peukes, I., Pomponi, F., & D'Amico, B. (in press)

Life cycle assessment of 61 ducted gas heating upgrades in Australia. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBPA-04-2021-0052

Operational energy use in buildings, accounts for 28% of global energy demand. One method to reduce operational energy is upgrading old appliances to more efficient ones. In A...

Enhancing the practicality of tools to estimate the whole life embodied carbon of building structures via machine-learning models

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Pomponi, F., Luque Anguita, M., Lange, M., D'Amico, B., & Hart, E. (2021)

Enhancing the practicality of tools to estimate the whole life embodied carbon of building structures via machine-learning models. Frontiers in Built Environment, 7, Article 745598. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2021.745598

The construction and operation of buildings account for significant environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy demand, resource consumption and wa...

Decoupling density from tallness in analysing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of cities

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Pomponi, F., Saint, R., Arehart, J. H., Gharavi, N., & D'Amico, B. (2021)

Decoupling density from tallness in analysing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of cities. npj Urban Sustainability, 1(1), Article 33. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00034-w

The UN estimate 2.5 billion new urban residents by 2050, thus further increasing global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and energy demand, and the environmental impacts cause...

Whole-life embodied carbon in multi-storey buildings: steel, concrete and timber structures

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Hart, J., D'Amico, B., & Pomponi, F. (2021)

Whole-life embodied carbon in multi-storey buildings: steel, concrete and timber structures. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 25(2), 403-418. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13139

Buildings and the construction industry are top contributors to climate change, and structures account for the largest share of the upfront greenhouse gas emissions. Whilst a ...

A New Estimate of Building Floor Space in North America

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Arehart, J. H., Pomponi, F., D'Amico, B., & Srubar III, W. V. (2021)

A New Estimate of Building Floor Space in North America. Environmental Science and Technology, 55(8), 5161-5170. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c05081

Floor space is a key variable used to understand the energy and material demands of buildings. Using recent datasets of building footprints, we employ a random forest regressi...

Carbon Sequestration and Storage in the Built Environment

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Arehart, J. H., Hart, J., Pomponi, F., & D'Amico, B. (2021)

Carbon Sequestration and Storage in the Built Environment. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 27, 1047-1063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.02.028

The increasing interest in bio-based construction materials has resulted in the emergence of the concept of “buildings as a carbon sink”. Quantifying and comparing the effects...

Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts

Pomponi, F., & D'Amico, B. (2020)

Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts. MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03943-816-7

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Augmented Virtual Reality Enhanced Building Information Modelling Technology for Bamboo-Timber Grid-shells

This project aims to develop the state-of-the-art building information modelling technology enhanced by augmented virtual reality function for design, manufacturing and building of the bamboo-timber g...

Funder: Construction Industry Council of Hong Kong | Value: £165,570

Stoane Lighting KTP

The overall aim of this project is to develop a world-first Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) approach focused on the lighting industry Within the Lighting sector there is a growing focus around the key them...

Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £170,688

Restoring Environments, Societies, Ecosystems and Trees (RESET)

Africa is due to experience the most rapid urbanisation and population growth in this century. The combination of these phenomena in other countries has led to two dire outcomes: enormous loss of ecos...

Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £29,868

Researching and proposing a standard rule of responsibility for embodied carbon emissions through the value chain

Researching and proposing a standard rule of responsibility for embodied carbon emissions through the value chain

Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £15,195

SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees

This project addresses this major moral, humanitarian, and knowledge gap by following on from a highly successful seed-funded project, which developed—through participatory design and interdisciplinar...

Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £314,324

Research informed teaching of sustainable development in South Africa: The case of 'Local' Building Materials and their Environmental impacts

The study examines the properties and benefits of selected local materials (such as clay and recycled elements) and whether their use as construction materials enhances environmental protection. The r...

Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £10,000

Circular design of emergency sheltering for Africa: a holistic approach

Africa is the continent with the highest number of displaced people due to wars, humanitarian crises, resource scarcity, and extreme climate events. Emergency sheltering always sets out with the best ...

Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £38,887

Informational Database for Sustainable and Energy Efficient materials in sub-Saharan Africa

The population in Africa is growing rapidly, and thus the urbanization is accelerated. The need for detailed information on the performance of materials is a crucial part of the decision-making proces...

Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering

Getting the numbers right and getting the right numbers: quantifying the embodied carbon of building structures

Building-related carbon emissions in the UK total over 200MtCO2e, which is more than 40% of the national figure. The correct measurement of the embodied carbon of structural materials would enable a r...

Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £100,852

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To cut carbon think low rise cities not skyscrapers

This is a piece Bloomberg has made on the paper recently published in Nature Urban Sustainability (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00034-w) which has received significant global attention (...

Winner of the RISE award for Design, Innovation and Creativity

30 September 2019

The RISE Awards are the highlight of the annual Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) Conference – and this year’s ceremony saw Edinburgh Napier’s Bernardino D'Amico and France...

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Making Gridshells

31 October 2016 - 4 November 2016

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