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Strategies to promote the acceptance of sandbag building technology for sustainable and affordable housing delivery: the South African case (2022)
Journal Article
Adetooto, J., Windapo, A., Pomponi, F., Companie, F., Alade, K., & Mtya, A. (online). Strategies to promote the acceptance of sandbag building technology for sustainable and affordable housing delivery: the South African case. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1108/jedt-06-2022-0290

Purpose Sandbag building technologies (SBTs) have been offered as a cost-effective and sustainable alternative building technology (ABT) capable of accelerating house construction in South Africa, but its acceptance remains low. However, knowledge a... Read More about Strategies to promote the acceptance of sandbag building technology for sustainable and affordable housing delivery: the South African case.

Barriers and opportunities of fast-growing biobased material use in buildings (2022)
Journal Article
Göswein, V., Arehart, J., Phan-huy, C., Pomponi, F., & Habert, G. (2022). Barriers and opportunities of fast-growing biobased material use in buildings. Buildings and Cities, 3(1), 745-755. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.254

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires immediate and drastic reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A significant contributor to anthropogenic global GHG emissions is the production of building materials. Biobased materials offer the potent... Read More about Barriers and opportunities of fast-growing biobased material use in buildings.

Wood in buildings: the right answer to the wrong question (2022)
Journal Article
Göswein, V., Arehart, J., Pittau, F., Pomponi, F., Lamb, S., Zea Escamilla, E., Freire, F., Silvestre, J. D., & Habert, G. (2022). Wood in buildings: the right answer to the wrong question. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1078(1), 012067. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1078/1/012067

Reducing the embodied emissions of materials for new construction and renovation of buildings is a key challenge for climate change mitigation around the world. However, as simply reducing emissions is not sufficient to meet the climate targets, usin... Read More about Wood in buildings: the right answer to the wrong question.

Structural Material Demand and Associated Embodied Carbon Emissions of the United States Building Stock: 2020-2100 (2022)
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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 the United States. Seven scenarios that align with the shared-socioeconomic p... Read More about Structural Material Demand and Associated Embodied Carbon Emissions of the United States Building Stock: 2020-2100.

Causality between challenges, availability, and extent of use of local building materials (2022)
Journal Article
Windapo, A., Olugboyega, O., Pomponi, F., Moghayedi, A., & Emuze, F. (2022). Causality between challenges, availability, and extent of use of local building materials. South African Journal of Science, 118(7/8), https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/9534

The promotion of sustainable practice in construction has resulted in a renewed focus on local building materials (LBMs). However, existing studies have not provided an extensive understanding of the challenges in the use and awareness of the availab... Read More about Causality between challenges, availability, and extent of use of local building materials.

Beyond recycling: an LCA-based decision-support tool to accelerate Scotland's transition to a circular economy (2022)
Journal Article
Salemdeeb, R., Saint, R., Pomponi, F., Pratt, K., & Lenaghan, M. (2022). Beyond recycling: an LCA-based decision-support tool to accelerate Scotland's transition to a circular economy. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 13, Article 200069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcradv.2022.200069

Resources and waste strategies have recently seen a shift in focus from weight-based recycling targets to impact-driven policies. To support this transition, numerous decision-support tools were developed to help identify waste streams with the highe... Read More about Beyond recycling: an LCA-based decision-support tool to accelerate Scotland's transition to a circular economy.

Environmental benefits of material-efficient design: a hybrid life cycle assessment of a plastic milk bottle (2022)
Journal Article
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 of plastic pollution point in the opposite direction. Until the phasing-out... Read More about Environmental benefits of material-efficient design: a hybrid life cycle assessment of a plastic milk bottle.

Life cycle assessment of 61 ducted gas heating upgrades in Australia (2021)
Journal Article
Peukes, I., Pomponi, F., & D'Amico, B. (2023). Life cycle assessment of 61 ducted gas heating upgrades in Australia. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 41(1), 143-169. 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 Australia, the most common residential heating type is reverse-cycle heating... Read More about Life cycle assessment of 61 ducted gas heating upgrades in Australia.

Enhancing the practicality of tools to estimate the whole life embodied carbon of building structures via machine-learning models (2021)
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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 waste generation. While the operation of buildings is fairly well regulated a... Read More about Enhancing the practicality of tools to estimate the whole life embodied carbon of building structures via machine-learning models.

Decoupling density from tallness in analysing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of cities (2021)
Journal Article
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 caused by the built environment. Achieving optimal use of space and maximal effi... Read More about Decoupling density from tallness in analysing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of cities.

Emissions assessment of bike sharing schemes: The case of Just Eat Cycles in Edinburgh, UK (2021)
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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)
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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 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)
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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 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)
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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)
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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)
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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 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., 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)
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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.