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Benefits and Challenges of Visualising Embodied and Whole Life Carbon of Buildings (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2016, September). Benefits and Challenges of Visualising Embodied and Whole Life Carbon of Buildings. Presented at SEEDS 2016

Embodied and whole life carbon of buildings are increasingly gaining attention However, embodied carbon calculation is still far from being common practice for sustainability assessment of buildings. Some of its greatest difficulties lie with the lon... Read More about Benefits and Challenges of Visualising Embodied and Whole Life Carbon of Buildings.

Circular Economy Research in the Built Environment: A Theoretical Contribution (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2016, September). Circular Economy Research in the Built Environment: A Theoretical Contribution. Presented at Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society SEEDS 2016, Leeds Beckett University

Circular economy is quickly gaining momentum across numerous research fields. The founding principles of circular economies lie in a different perspective on, and management of, resources under the idea that an ever-growing economic development and p... Read More about Circular Economy Research in the Built Environment: A Theoretical Contribution.

Evaluating, predicting and mapping belowground carbon stores in Kenyan mangroves (2016)
Journal Article
Gress, S. K., Huxham, M., Kairo, J. G., Mugi, L. M., & Briers, R. A. (2017). Evaluating, predicting and mapping belowground carbon stores in Kenyan mangroves. Global Change Biology, 23(1), 224-234. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13438

Despite covering only approximately 138,000 km2, mangroves are globally important carbon sinks with carbon density values 3 to 4 times that of terrestrial forests. A key challenge in evaluating the carbon benefits from mangrove forest conservation is... Read More about Evaluating, predicting and mapping belowground carbon stores in Kenyan mangroves.

Double Skin Façades: Life Cycle Study of a Versatile Technology for the Sustainable Refurbishment of Non-Domestic Buildings (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2016, June). Double Skin Façades: Life Cycle Study of a Versatile Technology for the Sustainable Refurbishment of Non-Domestic Buildings. Presented at CESB16 - Central Europe towards Sustainable Buildings 2016

Nearly half of the non-domestic building stock in central Europe was constructed between 1961-1 990. Partly due to the technical lifespan of façades and building components, most of these buildings are characterised by high energy consumption and the... Read More about Double Skin Façades: Life Cycle Study of a Versatile Technology for the Sustainable Refurbishment of Non-Domestic Buildings.

Buildings for the biosphere (and their indoors for the technosphere) - A circular economy view for the construction industry (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2016, May). Buildings for the biosphere (and their indoors for the technosphere) - A circular economy view for the construction industry. Presented at ISIE Americas 2016 - Industrial Ecology and Green Transformation, Bogotá, Colombia

One of the founding principles of the Circular Economy is to foster the focus on longer-lasting products. Arguably, extremely few products in the present days last as long as buildings do, yet even so only rarely does the actual end of a building’s l... Read More about Buildings for the biosphere (and their indoors for the technosphere) - A circular economy view for the construction industry.

Shortcomings of LCA current practice: the risk of mean values (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pomponi, F., Piroozfar, P., & Moncaster, A. (2016, May). Shortcomings of LCA current practice: the risk of mean values. Presented at ISIE Americas 2016 - Industrial Ecology and Green Transformation, Bogota

Industrial ecology can potentially become the science of the circular economy as a recent call for papers of the Journal of Industrial Ecology demonstrates. Well known tools in industrial ecology can be employed to analyse different dimensions of the... Read More about Shortcomings of LCA current practice: the risk of mean values.

Implementing Whole Life Carbon in Buildings (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
De Wolf, C., Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2016, May). Implementing Whole Life Carbon in Buildings. Presented at ISIE Americas 2016 - Industrial Ecology and Green Transformation

The current sustainability crisis reveals the need for expertise in life cycle design of the built environment. With recent innovations reducing the operational energy of buildings, the percentage of embodied energy has become a critical part of thei... Read More about Implementing Whole Life Carbon in Buildings.

Double-Skin Façades for the Sustainable Refurbishment of Non-domestic Buildings: A Life Cycle Environmental Impact Perspective (2016)
Book Chapter
Pomponi, F., Piroozfar, P. A. E., & Farr, E. R. P. (2016). Double-Skin Façades for the Sustainable Refurbishment of Non-domestic Buildings: A Life Cycle Environmental Impact Perspective. In M. Dastbaz, & C. Gorse (Eds.), Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design (59-72). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32646-7_6

In developed countries, existing buildings have the biggest share in the building stock. Given the age of construction, the property versus land values, and their slow replacement rate, low-carbon refurbishments are arguably one of the most sensible... Read More about Double-Skin Façades for the Sustainable Refurbishment of Non-domestic Buildings: A Life Cycle Environmental Impact Perspective.