Bernardino D'Amico
Bernardino DAmico

Dr Bernardino D'Amico - Laurea Arch PhD FHEA

Associate Professor

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  B.D'Amico@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

After obtaining his Laurea Magistrale (Master's degree) in Architecture in 2010 from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, Bernardino took up an internship at CMMKM. He was working as an architectural engineer on various research-driven projects, such as gridshell.it, where he was responsible for the structural design of a series of prototypes, including ReSonant String Shell, a timber acoustic shell for outdoor chamber music concerts. He was also involved in a joint research collaboration between the department of Construction and Mathematical Methods in Architecture (University of Naples Federico II) and the department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (University of Chieti-Pescara G. D’Annunzio, Italy) where he carried out theoretical and laboratory test-based investigations on a novel lightweight cold-formed steel beam. In October 2012 he joined the School of Engineering and the Built Environment of Edinburgh Napier University, as a PhD candidate, to develop computer-aided methods for the design of free-form grid-shell structural systems.

Bernardino's research interests lie in the general realm of design, analysis and fabrication of sustainable buildings and structures with focus on Computational Structural Design and Optimization.

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Member of the departmental Student Staff Liaison Committee
  • Member of the School Research Degree Committee

 

Editorial Activity

  • Guest editor for "Structures" journal - Elsevier (Special Issue on sustainable structures: whole-life analysis, environmental impacts, and material efficiency)
  • Guest editor for "Sustainability" journal - MDPI (Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: exploring links, scales, and environmental impacts)

 

External Examining/Validations

  • Master's degree external examination, Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology (CEM) University of Cambridge.
  • PhD external examination, ETH Zurich
  • PhD internal examination, ENU -- candidate: Mike Bather
  • PhD external examination, University of Colorado Boulder
  • External PhD supervision, DIARC, University of Naples Federico II
  • PhD external examination, Polytechnic University of Bari

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
  • Winner of the RISE award for Design, Innovation and Creativity
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Queen's Anniversary Prize 2015, Innovation in Timber Engineering and Wood Science.
  • Member of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, (IASS).

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Review for the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) the main public funding agency in the Czech Republic supporting all areas of basic research.
  • Review for the Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT) the public fund of the Government of Chile to promote basic scientific and technological research.
  • Review for the TRAIN@Ed Fellowship, part of the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme
  • Reviewing activity for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the national research council of the Netherlands
  • Review activity for Edinburgh Napier University internal funding competition (AY 2018/2019).

 

Invited Speaker

  • Embodied Carbon Symposium invited speaker, PennState University (USA)
  • Guest lecture: Timber Construction and Climate Change — VPM Architectural Workshop, Acireale, Italy (2021)
  • Guest lecture: Buildings, construction & climate change – Polytechnic of Turin
  • Guest Lecture: Numerical form-finding of “compression-only” structures — Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne (2014)

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • PhD supervision (DoS) joint ENU and Dongguan University of Technology.
  • PhD Viva Chair, Edinburgh Napier University. Student candidate: Mohamed Jama Mohamed

 

Reviewing

  • Peer review of SEBE research outputs for REF 2021
  • Elsevier Outstanding Reviewer award 2016
  • Reviewer for more than 20 internationally leading research journals --- Full details at: https://publons.com/researcher/1468865/bernardino-damico

 

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

Journal Article
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

Journal Article
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

Journal Article
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

Book
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

A Novel Method for Estimating Emissions Reductions Caused by the Restriction of Mobility: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal Article
Pomponi, F., Li, M., Sun, Y., Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Fountas, G., …Luque Anguita, M. (2021)
A Novel Method for Estimating Emissions Reductions Caused by the Restriction of Mobility: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Environmental Science and Technology Letters, 8(1), 46-52. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00764
The COVID-19 pandemic is the single largest event in contemporary history for global mobility restriction, with the majority of the world population experiencing various forms...

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

Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & D’Amico, B. (2020)
Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts. Sustainability, 12(21), https://doi.org/10.3390/su12219189
Projected population growth and urbanization rates will create a huge demand for new buildings and put an unprecedented pressure on the natural environment and its limited res...

Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink? A Reality Check on Feasibility Limits

Journal Article
Pomponi, F., Hart, J., Arehart, J. H., & D’Amico, B. (2020)
Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink? A Reality Check on Feasibility Limits. One Earth, 3(2), 157-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.07.018
The built environment is hard to decarbonize but has a pivotal role in climate-change mitigation amid rapid urbanization. Substituting conventional building materials with bio...

Global potential for material substitution in building construction: the case of cross laminated timber

Journal Article
D'Amico, B., Pomponi, F., & Hart, J. (2021)
Global potential for material substitution in building construction: the case of cross laminated timber. Journal of Cleaner Production, 279, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123487
The building and construction sector is a large contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and consumes the vastest amount of natural resources. Widely considered a...

The ‘building paradox’: research on building-related environmental effects requires global visibility and attention

Journal Article
Pomponi, F., Crawford, R., Stephan, A., Hart, J., & D'Amico, B. (2023)
The ‘building paradox’: research on building-related environmental effects requires global visibility and attention. Emerald Open Research, 1(5), https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.13838.1
The construction and operation of buildings is a major contributor to global energy demand, greenhouse gases emissions, resource depletion, waste generation, and associated en...

Embodied vs. Operational Energy and Carbon Emissions of Doe Reference Buildings from a Life-Cycle Perspective

Presentation / Conference
Arehart, J., Srubar, W., Pomponi, F., & D'Amico, B. (2020, June)
Embodied vs. Operational Energy and Carbon Emissions of Doe Reference Buildings from a Life-Cycle Perspective. Presented at ASHRAE 2020, Online
While the reduction of operational energy and associated emissions has been the focus of the building design community in recent decades, focus must now be given to reducing t...

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