Holistic study of a timber double skin façade: Whole life carbon emissions and structural optimisation
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & D'Amico, B. (2017)
Holistic study of a timber double skin façade: Whole life carbon emissions and structural optimisation. Building and Environment, 124, 42-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.07.046
The upkeep of existing buildings has a great role to play in reducing the carbon emissions of the built environ-ment. Façade upgrade represents one of the most effective inter...
Scrutinising embodied carbon in buildings: the next performance gap made manifest.
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2017)
Scrutinising embodied carbon in buildings: the next performance gap made manifest. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.06.049
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is becoming increasingly mainstream as an early-stage design-decision tool for buildings. Still, there are considerable variations in how the metho...
Circular Economy Research in the Built Environment: A Theoretical Contribution
Book Chapter
Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2017)
Circular Economy Research in the Built Environment: A Theoretical Contribution. In Building Information Modelling, Building Performance, Design and Smart Construction (31-44). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50346-2_3
Circular economy is quickly gaining momentum across numerous research fields. The founding principles of circular economies lie in a different perspective on, and management o...
A method for visualising embodied and whole life carbon of buildings
Book
Pomponi, F. & Moncaster, A. (2017)
A method for visualising embodied and whole life carbon of buildings. In Building Information Modelling, Building Performance, Design and Smart ConstructionSpringer Verlag. ISBN 978-3319503455
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Measuring embodied carbon dioxide equivalent of buildings: A review and critique of current industry practice
Journal Article
De Wolf, C., Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2017)
Measuring embodied carbon dioxide equivalent of buildings: A review and critique of current industry practice. Energy and Buildings, 140, 68-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.01.075
Lowering the embodied carbon dioxide equivalent (embodied CO2e) of buildings is an essential response to national and global targets for carbon reduction. Globally, constructi...
Shortcomings of LCA current practice: the risk of mean values
Conference Proceeding
Pomponi, F., Piroozfar, P., & Moncaster, A. (2016)
Shortcomings of LCA current practice: the risk of mean values
Industrial ecology can potentially become the science of the circular economy as a recent call for papers of the Journal of Industrial Ecology demonstrates. Well known tools i...