All Outputs (19)

Sustainable energy decision-making with an RAG-LLM system (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

To reach the ambition of a net-zero economy by 2050, the UK aims to improve energy efficiency in all homes by 2035, targeting reductions in energy consumption and household expenses. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a critical part in t... Read More about Sustainable energy decision-making with an RAG-LLM system.

Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning (2024)
Book Chapter

Higher Education Institutions have an important role to play in Climate Education. One dimension of this role is to equip future practitioners with the necessary knowledge and skills. Therefore, interdisciplinary approaches to learning and teaching.... Read More about Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning.

Towards social understanding of energy storage systems - A perspective (2023)
Journal Article

Renewable, decentralised, and citizen-centred energy paradigms have emerged as feasible and reliable alternatives to the traditional centralised fossil-based infrastructure. In this scenario, energy storage systems (ESSs) are enabling technologies to... Read More about Towards social understanding of energy storage systems - A perspective.

Rethinking abandoned buildings as positive energy buildings in a former industrial site in Italy (2023)
Journal Article

The transition from nearly zero-emission building (NZEB) to positive energy building (PEB) models is a new trend, justified by the need to increase the efforts to address the climate change targets and the ambition for a clean energy transition in th... Read More about Rethinking abandoned buildings as positive energy buildings in a former industrial site in Italy.

A carbon accounting and trading platform for the UK construction industry (2023)
Journal Article

Atmospheric carbon dioxide emanating from activities associated with the construction of buildings in the UK contributes approximately 16% of the uk’s total emissions and will need to be reduced significantly to meet international agreements. Against... Read More about A carbon accounting and trading platform for the UK construction industry.

A tool for energy transition oriented intermediaries. A stakeholders’ perspectives analysis (2022)
Journal Article

This paper analyses stakeholders' perspectives about Building-as-Energy-Service as a pillar concept concerning a new energy transition paradigm. In detail, it focuses on developing a Toolkit, which was designed to help energy-transition-oriented inte... Read More about A tool for energy transition oriented intermediaries. A stakeholders’ perspectives analysis.

Multi-criteria decision making optimisation framework for positive energy blocks for cities (2022)
Journal Article

The Positive Energy Block (PEBlock) is a new paradigm towards low-carbon cities. However, there is a paucity of literature about methods and tools to develop PEBlocks in practice. This study proposes a multi-criteria decision making optimisation fram... Read More about Multi-criteria decision making optimisation framework for positive energy blocks for cities.

Developing a process-oriented approach towards Positive Energy Blocks: The wind-analysis contribution (2021)
Journal Article

Positive Energy Block (PEB) is an emerging paradigm to transform cities into low carbon cities. It is expected that buildings will become the main components of the future energy infrastructure. This scenario demands a structural integration of the c... Read More about Developing a process-oriented approach towards Positive Energy Blocks: The wind-analysis contribution.

Envisioning Building-as-Energy-Service in the European context. From a literature review to a conceptual framework (2021)
Journal Article

Positive Energy Buildings (PEBs) represent an emerging paradigm for high performance in the building sector. This paradigm focuses on the possibility of exploiting the interaction between individual NZEBs and smart Smart Grids, using energy surplus e... Read More about Envisioning Building-as-Energy-Service in the European context. From a literature review to a conceptual framework.

Energy modelling and analytics in the built environment - A review of their role for energy transitions in the construction sector (2021)
Journal Article

Decarbonisation and efficiency goals set as a response to global warming issue require appropriate decision-making strategies to promote an effective and timely change in energy systems. Conceptualization of change is a relevant part of energy transi... Read More about Energy modelling and analytics in the built environment - A review of their role for energy transitions in the construction sector.

A literature review on BIM for cities Distributed Renewable and Interactive Energy Systems (2021)
Journal Article

The havoc caused by COVID-19 has further strengthen the case for greening cities and ensuring a quicker economic recovery much desired by various governments. To this end, the appetite for Distributed Renewable and Interactive Energy Systems (DRIES)... Read More about A literature review on BIM for cities Distributed Renewable and Interactive Energy Systems.

Exploring transformative pedagogies for built environment disciplines: The case of interdisciplinarity in low carbon transition (2020)
Journal Article

The integration of transformative pedagogies into curricula is recognized as a strategy to deal with the new demands of complexity in learning, which include equipping future professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to transition to a lo... Read More about Exploring transformative pedagogies for built environment disciplines: The case of interdisciplinarity in low carbon transition.

Transdisciplinarity in energy retrofit. A conceptual framework (2019)
Journal Article

This study explores the role of Energy Retrofit (ER) in Low Carbon Transition (LCT). The literature recognises the need to move towards a transdisciplinary approach in ER, which encompasses multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. However, the fr... Read More about Transdisciplinarity in energy retrofit. A conceptual framework.

Built environment education across boundaries. The case of energy retrofit as a tool for low carbon transition (2019)
Journal Article

Since the 1990s, several studies have focused on the concept of Transformative Pedagogy as a strategy to foster inter-disciplinary abilities to rise to the challenge of sustainable development. Although the impact of these transformative pedagogies i... Read More about Built environment education across boundaries. The case of energy retrofit as a tool for low carbon transition.

Assessing a simplified procedure to reconcile distributed renewable and interactive energy systems and urban patterns. The case study of school buildings in Rome (2019)
Journal Article

Distributed, Renewable and Interactive energy Systems (DRIs) are revolutionizing the concept of infrastructure by introducing a set of new properties. The implications of the new system properties in the realm of Urban Design are often neglected. Thi... Read More about Assessing a simplified procedure to reconcile distributed renewable and interactive energy systems and urban patterns. The case study of school buildings in Rome.

A method for the ecological use of vegetation in the built environment (2019)
Journal Article

Urban reforestation is recognised as a valid strategy to counter the loss of functionalities of the ecosystem services in an urban context, where vegetation has the dual role of environmental and landscape qualitative indicator. Ecological studies ha... Read More about A method for the ecological use of vegetation in the built environment.

Knowledge integration for low carbon transition: The case of energy retrofit (2018)
Journal Article

The Energy Retrofit concept plays an important role in the transition to low carbon cities, because buildings make a transdisciplinary perspective. Thus, an integrated approach to research, learning and teaching in the built environment di... Read More about Knowledge integration for low carbon transition: The case of energy retrofit.

A meaningful mapping approach for the complex design (2018)
Journal Article

Developing the ability to manage complexity has become an essential element for the training of designers. In such a context, complexity mainly arises from the need to integrate knowledge and expertise. The project is grounded in a hypothesis of syst... Read More about A meaningful mapping approach for the complex design.

Distributed renewable and interactive energy systems in urban environments (2018)
Journal Article

European Policies consider a multitude of Low Carbon Technologies to transform cities to Low Carbon Cities. Some of these technologies can form distributed systems. These are new forms of Energy Networks which can contribute to reducing the vulnerabi... Read More about Distributed renewable and interactive energy systems in urban environments.