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Emissions assessment of bike sharing schemes: The case of Just Eat Cycles in Edinburgh, UK (2021)
Journal Article
D’Almeida, L., Rye, T., & Pomponi, F. (2021). Emissions assessment of bike sharing schemes: The case of Just Eat Cycles in Edinburgh, UK. Sustainable Cities and Society, 71, Article 103012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103012

Transport accounts for 40 % of global emissions, 72 % of which comes from road transport, and private cars are responsible for 60 % of road transport emissions. In cities, self-service bike sharing systems are quickly developing and are intended to o... Read More about Emissions assessment of bike sharing schemes: The case of Just Eat Cycles in Edinburgh, UK.

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.

The greenhouse gas emissions of nuclear energy – Life cycle assessment of a European pressurised reactor (2021)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & Hart, J. (2021). The greenhouse gas emissions of nuclear energy – Life cycle assessment of a European pressurised reactor. Applied Energy, 290, Article 116743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116743

Nuclear energy contributes ~10% of the global electricity generation and different views exist on its carbon-intensity and sustainability. Context is crucial to determine the sustainability of new nuclear power generators, making the existence of a g... Read More about The greenhouse gas emissions of nuclear energy – Life cycle assessment of a European pressurised reactor.

A circular economy: where will it take us? (2021)
Journal Article
Hart, J., & Pomponi, F. (2021). A circular economy: where will it take us?. Circular Economy and Sustainability, 1(1), 127-141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-021-00013-4

The avalanche of environmental challenges, from local to global and back, has prompted responses at all levels from personal to inter-governmental. The results of these responses have fallen in the range between useful and counterproductive, with man... Read More about A circular economy: where will it take us?.

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.

Water, energy, and carbon dioxide footprints of the construction sector: a case study on developed and developing economies (2021)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & Stephan, A. (2021). Water, energy, and carbon dioxide footprints of the construction sector: a case study on developed and developing economies. Water Research, 194, Article 116935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.116935

Buildings and construction are major driver of anthropogenic environmental effects. While energy use and CO2 emissions of buildings and construction have been quantified, their water footprint remains understudied from an economy-wide perspective. We... Read More about Water, energy, and carbon dioxide footprints of the construction sector: a case study on developed and developing economies.

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.

Circular cities: the case of Singapore (2020)
Journal Article
Carrière, S., Weigend Rodriguez, R., Pey, P., Pomponi, F., & Ramakrishna, S. (2020). Circular cities: the case of Singapore. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 10(4), 491-507. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-12-2019-0137

Circular Economy (CE), as a new economic paradigm has gained traction in recent years. Cities’ role in driving CE forward has been perceived as being increasingly important to achieve Sustainable Development (SD). For this reason, there is an urgency... Read More about Circular cities: the case of Singapore.

Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
Lenzen, M., Li, M., Malik, A., Pomponi, F., Sun, Y.-Y., Wiedmann, T., Faturay, F., Fry, J., Gallego, B., Geschke, A., Gómez-Paredes, J., Kanemoto, K., Kenway, S., Nansai, K., Prokopenko, M., Wakiyama, T., Wang, Y., & Yousefzadeh, M. (2020). Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic. PLOS ONE, 15(7), Article e0235654. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235654

On 3 April 2020, the Director-General of the WHO stated: “[COVID-19] is much more than a health crisis. We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic (WHO, 2020)”. Such consequences are the result of counter-measur... Read More about Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic.

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.

Embodied vs. Operational Energy and Carbon Emissions of Doe Reference Buildings from a Life-Cycle Perspective (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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 the upfront or embodied energy and emissions of buildings. Embodied energy a... Read More about Embodied vs. Operational Energy and Carbon Emissions of Doe Reference Buildings from a Life-Cycle Perspective.

How Do People Move Around? National Data on Transport Modal Shares for 131 Countries (2020)
Journal Article
Fountas, G., Sun, Y.-Y., Akizu-Gardoki, O., & Pomponi, F. (2020). How Do People Move Around? National Data on Transport Modal Shares for 131 Countries. World, 1(1), 34-43. https://doi.org/10.3390/world1010003

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought global mobility into the spotlight, with well over 100 countries having instituted either a full or partial lockdown by April 2020. Reduced mobility, whilst causing social and economic impacts, can also be beneficial... Read More about How Do People Move Around? National Data on Transport Modal Shares for 131 Countries.

On mass quantities of gravity frames in building structures (2020)
Journal Article
D'Amico, B., & Pomponi, F. (2020). On mass quantities of gravity frames in building structures. Journal of Building Engineering, 31, Article 101426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2020.101426

This paper introduces a numerical study aimed at analysing and quantifying existing correlations between structural masses of the gravity frame in building structures (i.e. excluding lateral load resisting system) and some key basic design variables,... Read More about On mass quantities of gravity frames in building structures.

More Timber in Construction: Unanswered Questions and Future Challenges (2020)
Journal Article
Hart, J., & Pomponi, F. (2020). More Timber in Construction: Unanswered Questions and Future Challenges. Sustainability, 12(8), Article 3473. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12083473

The built environment is one of the greatest contributors to carbon emissions, climate change, and to the unsustainable pressure on the natural environment and its ecosystems. The use of more timber in construction is one possible response, and an au... Read More about More Timber in Construction: Unanswered Questions and Future Challenges.