Can Timber Construction Be a Significant Carbon Sink?
Aug 27, 2021
Summary Coverage of our article in One Earth in this popular read within the Architect Magazine People Francesco Pomponi URL https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/can-timber-construction-be-a-significant-carbon-sink_o
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To cut carbon think low rise cities not skyscrapers
Aug 25, 2021
Summary This is a piece Bloomberg has made on the paper recently published in Nature Urban Sustainability (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00034-w) which has received significant global attention (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00034-w/metrics). People Bernardino D'Amico
Francesco PomponiURL https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-25/to-cut-carbon-think-low-rise-buildings-not-skyscrapers
University teams up with community researchers to help improve their neighbourhood
Feb 6, 2020
Source Deadline media Summary A Team of community researchers will join forces with academics to help improve their neighbourhood.
UK Research and Innovation today announced its backing for the Seven Kingdoms of Wester Hailes, one of 53 new UK-wide projects worth £1.4million which will enable members of the public to actively contribute to research and innovation projects that affect their lives.
Part of the agency’s Enhancing place-based partnerships in public engagement programme, the project involves community partners working with Edinburgh Napier University to contribute to the local place plan being developed with support from the Scottish Government’s Chief Architect.People Francesco Pomponi
Clare Taylor
Tom Flint
Stephen Smith
Kirstie Jamieson
Louise ToddURL http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2020/02/06/university-teams-up-with-community-researchers-to-help-improve-their-neighbourhood/
Winner of the RISE award for Design, Innovation and Creativity
Oct 1, 2019
Summary The RISE Awards are the highlight of the annual Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) Conference – and this year’s ceremony saw Edinburgh Napier’s Bernardino D'Amico and Francesco Pomponi take home the Design, Innovation & Creativity award!
The RISE awards celebrate talented companies, groups and individuals who are changing the nature of the built environment industry through extensive research, development and innovation.
School of Engineering and the Built Environment colleagues Bernardino and Francesco were recognised for their RAEng-funded research on a holistic approach to post-disaster, post-conflict emergency sheltering. This led to follow-on research, funded through an Industry Academia Partnership Programme, focusing on sustainable materials.People Bernardino D'Amico
Francesco PomponiURL https://www.leedsbecket.../seeds-conference-2019/