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Dr Bernardino D'Amico's Recognition (32)

PhD Viva Chair, Edinburgh Napier University. Student candidate: Mohamed Jama Mohamed
2018 - 2021

Description Independent Panel Chair of PhD Viva (ENU).
Candidate: Mohamed Jama Mohamed.
Thesis title: The use of Uberpool and its Relationship with Public Transport – A London case study
Affiliated Organisations Edinburgh Napier University
Research Areas Timber engineering
Offsite construction and Innovative Structures
Civil Engineering
Carbon Emissions
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Org Units School of Engineering and The Built Environment

Guest editor for "Structures" journal - Elsevier (Special Issue on sustainable structures: whole-life analysis, environmental impacts, and material efficiency)
2018 - 2020

Description Special issue on Sustainable structures: whole-life analysis, environmental impacts, and material efficiency

Given the predominant role that structures play in terms of both mass and function in any building project, structural engineers are more and more often tasked with sustainability -related assessments and are frequently required to integrate structural and environmental performance in their analysis and recommendations.

This is particularly true in day-to-day industry practice when the main structural materials (e.g. concrete, steel, timber) can all compete in the specific project being considered and the structural engineer is asked to provide expert advice on the material that warrants the lowest environmental impact to the project. To address such questions, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is usually the right and most widely used approach as it is able to capture natural resource consumption, energy demand, carbon emissions, waste generation as well as other environmental impact categories such as climate change potential and human- and eco-toxicity.

However, LCA seldom falls in the competence domain of today’s structural engineers and most sustainability assessments materialise in the overly simplistic form of multiplying the structural mass by an average embodied carbon coefficient, which rarely represents the context being examined. This ill-defined approach fails to represent the influence that a structure has on the overall life cycle of the building, nor does it account for accurate representations of the structural performance of different materials, maintenance and repair requirements, as well as their availability and end of life treatment.

This Special Issue of Structures intends to capitalise on state-of-the-art research in this challenging and interdisciplinary field and develop a coherent knowledge capital to benefit academics and practitioners in the field of structural engineering to accelerate real world impact.

Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Design optimisation of whole structures and structural elements to minimise structural mass and/or life cycle environmental impactsNovel methods for comparative life cycle analyses of different structural materialsThe significance of resource availability in different geographical regions to promote specific structural materials.

- Novel structural materials that can help address sustainability issues in the sectorNovel construction engineering practices and approaches aimed at material reduction, prolonged service life, reduced maintenance and/or resource reuse at the end of life.

- Novel computational methods to increase accuracy and reliability of the LCAs of building structures at early design stagesThe significance of the impacts related to the building structures for different projects and materials.

- Novel methods and approaches to tackle inefficient over-design of buildingsNovel methods to reduce material consumption and its implication on the life cycle of the structure.

- Structural archetypes and parametric approaches and methods to facilitate future research in the sustainability of buildingsThe role of machine learning and neural networks in supporting large-scale sustainability analyses.
Research Areas Timber engineering
Offsite construction and Innovative Structures
Civil Engineering
Carbon Emissions
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Org Units School of Engineering and The Built Environment

Elsevier Outstanding Reviewer award 2016
2016

Description The "Outstanding Reviewer" status is awarded by Elsevier to those reviewers who are in the top 10th percentile in terms of the number of reviews completed within two years for that journal (i.e. Engineering Structures in my case).
Research Areas Civil Engineering
Org Units School of Engineering and The Built Environment

Member of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, (IASS).
2014

Description The IASS, founded by Eduardo Torroja in 1959, has as its goal the achievement of further progress through an interchange of ideas among all those interested in lightweight structural systems such as lattice, tension, membrane, and shell structures.

Reviewer for more than 20 internationally leading research journals --- Full details at: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AFG-8309-2022
2014

Description Reviewer for more than 20 internationally leading research journals --- Full details at: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AFG-8309-2022
Research Areas Carbon Emissions
Civil Engineering
Offsite construction and Innovative Structures
Timber engineering
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Transport Research Innovation Centre
Org Units School of Engineering and The Built Environment
URL https://publons.com/researcher/1468865/bernardino-damico

Guest Lecture: Numerical form-finding of “compression-only” structures — Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne (2014)
2014 - 2014

Description Guest lecture within the course of Construction Analysis (ABPL90328 Issues in Technology), at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Course coordinator: Dr. Alberto Pugnale
Org Units School of Engineering and The Built Environment