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Whole-life embodied carbon in multi-storey buildings: steel, concrete and timber structures (2021)
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 body of research exists into such emissions, a systematic comparison of mul... Read More about Whole-life embodied carbon in multi-storey buildings: steel, concrete and timber structures.

A New Estimate of Building Floor Space in North America (2021)
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 regression model to estimate the floor space of the North American building stock.... Read More about A New Estimate of Building Floor Space in North America.

Carbon Sequestration and Storage in the Built Environment (2021)
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 of carbon sequestration and storage in buildings from a life cycle perspec... Read More about Carbon Sequestration and Storage in the Built Environment.

A Novel Method for Estimating Emissions Reductions Caused by the Restriction of Mobility: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., Li, M., Sun, Y.-Y., Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Fountas, G., D'Amico, B., Akizu-Gardoki, O., & 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 of ‘lockdown’. This phenomenon incurred increased teleworking and time spe... Read More about A Novel Method for Estimating Emissions Reductions Caused by the Restriction of Mobility: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts (2020)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & D’Amico, B. (2020). Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts. Sustainability, 12(21), Article 9189. 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 resources. Architectural design has often focused on passive or low-energy app... Read More about Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts.

Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink? A Reality Check on Feasibility Limits (2020)
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-based materials that store carbon offers one possible solution. Here, we r... Read More about Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink? A Reality Check on Feasibility Limits.

Global potential for material substitution in building construction: the case of cross laminated timber (2020)
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, Article 123487. 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 hard-to-decarbonise sector, improvements in buildings and construction are... Read More about Global potential for material substitution in building construction: the case of cross laminated timber.

The ‘building paradox’: research on building-related environmental effects requires global visibility and attention (2020)
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 environmental effects, such as climate change, pollution and habitat destruct... Read More about The ‘building paradox’: research on building-related environmental effects requires global visibility and attention.

The Future of the Circular Economy & the Circular Economy of the Future (2020)
Journal Article
Weigend, R., Pomponi, F., Webster, K., & D'Amico, B. (2020). The Future of the Circular Economy & the Circular Economy of the Future. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 10(4), 529-546. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-07-2019-0063

In the published online version the abstract suffered minor changes. The new abstract reads:
The circular economy (CE) has gained momentum in recent years as a new economic paradigm. While the CE sets a very defined vision for a sustainable future,... Read More about The Future of the Circular Economy & the Circular Economy of the Future.