All Outputs (24)

Unlocking the potential of bio-based materials in construction through a multicriteria assessment of value and impact: SmartBioC case study (2025)
Book Chapter

This study introduces a multicriteria assessment framework designed to accelerate the adoption of bio-based materials in the construction sector by systematically evaluating their value and impact compared to conventional materials. Bio-based materia... Read More about Unlocking the potential of bio-based materials in construction through a multicriteria assessment of value and impact: SmartBioC case study.

Smart Biobased Construction (SmartBioC) for climate-positive solutions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Smart Biobased Construction (SmartBioC) for climate-positive solutions. SmartBioC aims to speed up the uptake of circular biobased materials to provide zero-carbon, healthy and socially and economically viable solutions for the construction industry.... Read More about Smart Biobased Construction (SmartBioC) for climate-positive solutions.

Bio-minded society for net-zero carbon construction (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

This event was held on 17 July 2024 at UWE Frenchay Campus with the aim of exploring ways to overcome barriers-to-adoption and accelerate the uptake of biobased materials in the construction industry amongst diverse stakeholders and ‘end-users’ inclu... Read More about Bio-minded society for net-zero carbon construction.

SmartBioC Top Trumps (2024)
Physical Artefact

"SmartBioC’s Top Trumps" is a card game designed to playfully display information on the performance of biobased building assemblies and compare them against traditional construction methods.

The cards use SmartBioC’s multi-criteria assessment fra... Read More about SmartBioC Top Trumps.

Bamboo (2024)
Book Chapter

The environmental impacts of construction are momentous. How can architects minimise these by making responsible material choices? Material choices have a global impact. The design and construction industry are responsible for 39% of all carbon emiss... Read More about Bamboo.

Bamboo construction inspired by vernacular techniques for reducing carbon footprint: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) (2023)
Journal Article

Whilst upcoming innovations on digital technology and renewable energy can have a significant impact on the reduction of operational carbon emissions in the construction industry, readily available fast-growing building materials like bamboo are alre... Read More about Bamboo construction inspired by vernacular techniques for reducing carbon footprint: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

Exploring a flipped approach to Construction Technology teaching, for inclusive learning and assessment (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Covid pandemic in 2020 and the subsequent blended learning approaches, provided an opportunity for lecturers to re-design the delivery of ‘Construction Technology’ modules at UWE. Many of the approaches developed during the pandemic are now consi... Read More about Exploring a flipped approach to Construction Technology teaching, for inclusive learning and assessment.

Structural analysis of cross-laminated Guadua-bamboo (G-XLam) panels using design methods for CLT (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Densified lamellas of bamboo Guadua angustifolia Kunth (Guadua) were arranged orthogonally and glued together to form three- and five-layer cross laminated (XLam) panels with symmetrical compositions, which are refereed as G-XLam3 & G-XLam5, respecti... Read More about Structural analysis of cross-laminated Guadua-bamboo (G-XLam) panels using design methods for CLT.

‘Smartifying’ construction for circular and zero-carbon biobased buildings (SmartBioC) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

SmartBioC focuses on creating a user-friendly digital tool that allows users to select and specify biobased materials and building components for a modular housing unit based on a set of performance indicators including carbon footprint, thermal perf... Read More about ‘Smartifying’ construction for circular and zero-carbon biobased buildings (SmartBioC).

‘Smartifying’ construction for circular and zero-carbon biobased buildings (SmartBioC) (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

SmartBioC focuses on creating a user-friendly digital tool that allows users to select and specify biobased materials and building components for a modular housing unit based on a set of performance indicators including carbon footprint, thermal perf... Read More about ‘Smartifying’ construction for circular and zero-carbon biobased buildings (SmartBioC).

A more ‘inclusive’ approach to module delivery and assessment (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2020, Covid and the introduction of an alternative blended learning approach, provided a welcome opportunity for implementing innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the module Construction Technology and Services 1, at UWE Bristol. A fl... Read More about A more ‘inclusive’ approach to module delivery and assessment.

Durability of whole culm bamboo: Facts, misconceptions and the new ISO 22156 framework (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Durability of bamboo is one of the most important aspects to consider when designing and building with this nature-based material. Durable structures with bamboo are resilient, cost-effective and have a lower whole life-cycle environmental impact. Th... Read More about Durability of whole culm bamboo: Facts, misconceptions and the new ISO 22156 framework.

Durability of whole culm bamboo: Facts, misconceptions and the new ISO 22156 framework (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Durability of bamboo is one of the most important aspects to consider when designing and building with this nature-based material. Durable structures with bamboo are resilient, cost-effective and have a lower whole life-cycle environmental impact. Th... Read More about Durability of whole culm bamboo: Facts, misconceptions and the new ISO 22156 framework.

Elastic response of cross-laminated engineered bamboo panels subjected to in-plane loading (2019)
Journal Article

© ICE Publishing: All rights reserved. Novel cross-laminated bamboo panels comprising three and five layers (G-XLam3 and G-XLam5) were tested in compression along the main (0°) and the transverse (90°) directions. Linear variable differential transfo... Read More about Elastic response of cross-laminated engineered bamboo panels subjected to in-plane loading.

Bamboo hybrids bolster timber (2019)
Journal Article

A relatively common material is not being embraced fully for building supplies. Interest in bamboo is growing, through research and media campaigning about the material’s environmental benefits, properties and its ability to replace wood, steel and c... Read More about Bamboo hybrids bolster timber.

Bamboo: An engineered alternative for buildings in the global South (2019)
Book Chapter

Bamboo is the only Graminea adapted to the life as forest. Bamboos can be found around the globe and are naturally occurring in Africa, America and Asia in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate areas around the equator. Bamboos are giant grasses t... Read More about Bamboo: An engineered alternative for buildings in the global South.

Industrial or traditional bamboo construction? Comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) of bamboo-based buildings (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 by the authors. The past five decades have witnessed an unprecedented growth in population. This has led to an ever-growing housing demand. It has been proposed that the use of bio-based materials, and specifically bamboo, can help alleviate t... Read More about Industrial or traditional bamboo construction? Comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) of bamboo-based buildings.

Bamboo reinforced concrete: a critical review (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, The Author(s). The use of small diameter whole-culm (bars) and/or split bamboo (a.k.a. splints or round strips) has often been proposed as an alternative to relatively expensive reinforcing steel in reinforced concrete. The motivation for suc... Read More about Bamboo reinforced concrete: a critical review.

Low investment costs as key driver for upscaling alternative construction technologies (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study aims to assess alternative materials withstanding low capital investment, with the potential
of providing housing affordability for low-income communities. By combining Life Cycle Assessment
and Return on Capital Employed techniques, it... Read More about Low investment costs as key driver for upscaling alternative construction technologies.

Thermo-hydro-mechanically modified cross-laminated Guadua-bamboo panels (2015)
Thesis

Guadua angustifolia Kunth (Guadua) is a bamboo species native to South and Central America that has been widely used for structural applications in small and large-scale buildings, bridges and temporary structures. Currently, its structural use is re... Read More about Thermo-hydro-mechanically modified cross-laminated Guadua-bamboo panels.