All Outputs (62)

Globalised climate precarity: Environmental degradation, disasters and the international brick trade (2024)
Journal Article
Parsons, L., de Campos, R. S., Moncaster, A., Cook, I., Siddiqui, T., Abenyake, C., …Billah, T. (2024). Globalised climate precarity: Environmental degradation, disasters and the international brick trade. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(3), 520-535. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2280666

Climate-linked disasters result when natural hazards meet socioeconomic precarity. Recognizing this, scholarship in recent years has emphasized how the precarity that turns climate-linked hazards into disasters is produced within the same global poli... Read More about Globalised climate precarity: Environmental degradation, disasters and the international brick trade.

Low carbon heritage: Residents' views from Cumbria and the English Lake District World Heritage Site (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Wise, F., Moncaster, A., & Jones, D. (2023). Low carbon heritage: Residents' views from Cumbria and the English Lake District World Heritage Site. In R. Kilian, S. Saba, & C. Gietz (Eds.), EEHB 2022 Post Prints. The 4th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings (219-227)

Carbon emissions from the built environment must be urgently reduced to mitigate climate change. Retrofit of existing buildings is key. However, heritage buildings pose a particular challenge, particularly domestic buildings where retrofit is mainly... Read More about Low carbon heritage: Residents' views from Cumbria and the English Lake District World Heritage Site.

Minimising embodied carbon: A question of politics, not percentages (2023)
Book Chapter
Moncaster, A. (2023). Minimising embodied carbon: A question of politics, not percentages. In R. Azari, & A. Moncaster (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment (7-19). Abingdon and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003277927

Embodied carbon (EC) has long been a thorny issue, for many years excluded from policy and regulation. Definitions of ‘zero carbon’ have been framed to include only operational impacts, encouraging improvements in energy efficiency but continuing to... Read More about Minimising embodied carbon: A question of politics, not percentages.

Embodied carbon and building retrofit (2023)
Book Chapter
Wise, F., Moncaster, A., & Jones, D. (2023). Embodied carbon and building retrofit. In R. Azari, & A. Moncaster (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment (296-328). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

There is a critical need to reduce energy and associated carbon emissions from the existing built environment to help mitigate climate change. This requires significant upscaling of energy retrofitting. However, at present, retrofit assessments commo... Read More about Embodied carbon and building retrofit.

Embodied emissions - knowledge building for industry (2023)
Book Chapter
Houlihan Wiberg, A., James, B., Moncaster, A., Nygaard Rasmussen, F., Malmqvist, T., & Birgisdottir, H. (2023). Embodied emissions - knowledge building for industry. In R. Azari, & A. Moncaster (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment (147-181). Routledge

A climate emergency has been declared and government, policymakers, industries, researchers and architects have tremendous potential to shift the entire industry towards a (net) zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-built environment. In particular, th... Read More about Embodied emissions - knowledge building for industry.

Introduction to section 5: Embodied carbon and material scale perspectives (2023)
Book Chapter
Moncaster, A., & Azari, R. (2023). Introduction to section 5: Embodied carbon and material scale perspectives. In R. Azari, & A. Moncaster (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment (331-334). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

While buildings and neighbourhoods are bounded in place, materials are a global resource, which can be imported from across the world. An assessment of embodied impacts for a completed building design is relatively straightforward, if requiring compl... Read More about Introduction to section 5: Embodied carbon and material scale perspectives.

Introduction to Section 2: National and international approaches to, and policies for, decarbonisation (2023)
Book Chapter
Moncaster, A., & Azari, R. (2023). Introduction to Section 2: National and international approaches to, and policies for, decarbonisation. In R. Azari, & A. Moncaster (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment (185-188). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter introduces Section 2, which discusses the current policy and industry initiatives for reducing embodied carbon in different regions of the world. This is, we believe, a unique contribution to knowledge, revealing the real-world transitio... Read More about Introduction to Section 2: National and international approaches to, and policies for, decarbonisation.

Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment (2023)
Book
Moncaster, A., & Azari, R. (Eds.). (2023). Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This handbook explores the critically important topic of embodied carbon, providing advanced insights that focus on measuring and reducing embodied carbon from across the built environment, including buildings, urban areas and cities, and constructio... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment.

Nature can cool cities, but proceed with caution (2023)
Journal Article
Mabon, L., Connor, B., Moncaster, A., Pearce, C., Pratt, E., Shih, W., …Wolstenholme, R. (2023). Nature can cool cities, but proceed with caution. Urban Transformations, 5(1), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-023-00057-9

Increased extreme heat events draw attention to the potential of urban nature as a heat adaptation strategy for cities. This is reflected in multiple scientific perspective pieces, policy documents and science media publications advocating for urban... Read More about Nature can cool cities, but proceed with caution.

Demolition or retention of buildings: Drivers at the masterplan scale (2023)
Journal Article
Baker, H., Moncaster, A., Wilkinson, S., & Remøy, H. (2023). Demolition or retention of buildings: Drivers at the masterplan scale. Buildings and Cities, 4(1), 488-506. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.308

Current adaptation theory tends to consider individual buildings or the city level, which cannot address decisions related to masterplan developments on large brownfield sites. This paper investigates the drivers for building demolition or retention... Read More about Demolition or retention of buildings: Drivers at the masterplan scale.

Is it all about the windows? Residents' values in residential heritage buildings (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Wise, F., Moncaster, A., & Jones, D. (2022). Is it all about the windows? Residents' values in residential heritage buildings. In Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings (592-598). https://doi.org/10.14311/app.2022.38.0592

Reducing energy and associated carbon emissions from the built environment is fundamental to meeting our climate goals. Retrofit of existing buildings is therefore a key strategy. Heritage buildings present particular challenges for retrofitting beca... Read More about Is it all about the windows? Residents' values in residential heritage buildings.

Demands, default options and definitions: How artefacts mediate sustainability in public housing projects in Sweden and Cyprus (2022)
Journal Article
Francart, N., Polycarpou, K., Malmqvist, T., & Moncaster, A. (2022). Demands, default options and definitions: How artefacts mediate sustainability in public housing projects in Sweden and Cyprus. Energy Research and Social Science, 92, Article 102765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102765

Sustainable building design practices are influenced by requirements, guidelines, criteria for green procurement and certification, assessment tools such as life cycle assessment, etc. This study investigates how such artefacts support or define aspi... Read More about Demands, default options and definitions: How artefacts mediate sustainability in public housing projects in Sweden and Cyprus.

Embodied carbon, embodied energy and renewable energy: A review of Environmental Product Declarations (2022)
Journal Article
Anderson, J., & Moncaster, A. (2023). Embodied carbon, embodied energy and renewable energy: A review of Environmental Product Declarations. Proceedings of the ICE - Structures and Buildings, 176(12), 986-997. https://doi.org/10.1680/jstbu.21.00160

Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) to EN 15804 provide information about embodied carbon of construction products - their life cycle greenhouse gas emissions - alongside reporting use of renewable and non-renewable primary energy and secondary... Read More about Embodied carbon, embodied energy and renewable energy: A review of Environmental Product Declarations.

Embodied carbon of concrete in buildings, Part 2: Are the messages accurate? (2022)
Journal Article
Moncaster, A., Malmqvist, T., Forman, T., Pomponi, F., & Anderson, J. (2022). Embodied carbon of concrete in buildings, Part 2: Are the messages accurate?. Buildings and Cities, 3(1), 334-355. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.199

This paper is the second output of a project that examines the embodied greenhouse gas emissions (‘embodied carbon’) from the use of concrete in buildings. In the current absence of either regulation or widespread industry practice in quantified carb... Read More about Embodied carbon of concrete in buildings, Part 2: Are the messages accurate?.

Trading disaster: Containers and container thinking in the production of climate precarity (2022)
Journal Article
Parsons, L., Safra de Campos, R., Moncaster, A., Cook, I., Siddiqui, T., Abenayake, C., …Billah, T. (2022). Trading disaster: Containers and container thinking in the production of climate precarity. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(4), 990-1008. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12545

This paper examines how global trade shapes and intensifies disasters. Juxtaposing three basic, everyday consumer goods – a t-shirt, a brick, and a tea bag – with disasters manifesting in their respective global supply chains, it highlights how clima... Read More about Trading disaster: Containers and container thinking in the production of climate precarity.

Modelling Chinese urban residential stock turnover uncertainties using system dynamics and Bayesian statistical inference (2022)
Book Chapter
Zhou, W., O'Neill, E., Moncaster, A., Reiner, D., & Guthrie, P. (2022). Modelling Chinese urban residential stock turnover uncertainties using system dynamics and Bayesian statistical inference. In D. Iossifova, A. Gasparatos, S. Zavos, Y. Gamal, & Y. Long (Eds.), Urban Infrastructuring (221-240). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_14

Building stock turnover is one of the key determinants in building energy modelling and policy analysis. Building lifetime is integral to the dynamics of stock turnover. However in China, despite anecdotal claims that urban residential buildings are... Read More about Modelling Chinese urban residential stock turnover uncertainties using system dynamics and Bayesian statistical inference.

Modelling future trends of annual embodied energy of urban residential building stock in China (2022)
Journal Article
Zhou, W., Moncaster, A., O'Neill, E., Reiner, D. M., Wang, X., & Guthrie, P. (2022). Modelling future trends of annual embodied energy of urban residential building stock in China. Energy Policy, 165, Article 112932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112932

China is the largest driver of growth in the global building sector. The longstanding construction boom across China has generated a massive flow of materials with significant associated embodied energy consumption and carbon emissions. Despite the s... Read More about Modelling future trends of annual embodied energy of urban residential building stock in China.

Using an analysis of concrete and cement EPD: Verification, selection, assessment, benchmarking and target setting (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Anderson, J., & Moncaster, A. (2022). Using an analysis of concrete and cement EPD: Verification, selection, assessment, benchmarking and target setting. In fib International Conference on Concrete Sustainability (20-26). https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2022.33.0020

The carbon embodied in buildings is an important proportion of our emissions and needs to be radically reduced in order to support climate change mitigation. The highest proportion of embodied carbon is usually emitted during the product stage, and w... Read More about Using an analysis of concrete and cement EPD: Verification, selection, assessment, benchmarking and target setting.

Residents' comfort perceptions in domestic heritage buildings (2022)
Journal Article
Wise, F., Moncaster, A., & Jones, D. (2022). Residents' comfort perceptions in domestic heritage buildings. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1085, https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1085/1/012024

Reducing energy and associated carbon emissions from the existing built environment is critically important to meet our climate goals. Heritage buildings are often presented in the literature as energy inefficient, and uncomfortable to inhabit. There... Read More about Residents' comfort perceptions in domestic heritage buildings.

Retrofitting existing buildings (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Moncaster, A. (2021, December). Retrofitting existing buildings. Presented at Cambridge Zero Policy Forum study on local priorities for investing in resilient and sustainable infrastructure Witness session 2: Friday 10 December 2021, Cambridge