All Outputs (16)

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.

Nature can cool cities, but proceed with caution (2023)
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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.

Social value, infrastructure and stakeholder engagement: a complex triangle (2021)
Journal Article
Fitton, S., & Moncaster, A. (2022). Social value, infrastructure and stakeholder engagement: a complex triangle. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 175(4), 194-201. https://doi.org/10.1680/jensu.21.00030

Infrastructure is critical for the economic and social prosperity of society. Some large infrastructure projects are also critical for the future of society due to their intergenerational nature and long lifespan. Understanding the social value of in... Read More about Social value, infrastructure and stakeholder engagement: a complex triangle.

Reducing carbon from heritage buildings: The importance of residents’ views, values and behaviours (2021)
Journal Article
Wise, F., Jones, D., & Moncaster, A. (2021). Reducing carbon from heritage buildings: The importance of residents’ views, values and behaviours. Journal of Architectural Conservation, 27(1-2), 117-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556207.2021.1933342

Significant energy and carbon originate in the existing built environment and retrofit is therefore a key carbon reduction strategy. However heritage buildings -comprising around 20% of UK buildings- are challenging to retrofit appropriately due to t... Read More about Reducing carbon from heritage buildings: The importance of residents’ views, values and behaviours.

Rethinking retrofit of residential heritage buildings (2021)
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Wise, F., Moncaster, A., & Jones, D. (2021). Rethinking retrofit of residential heritage buildings. Buildings & Cities, 2(1), 495-517. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.94

What are the opportunities and challenges for upscaling the energy retrofit of heritage buildings? Heritage buildings comprise approximately 20% of the UK building stock and are challenging to retrofit sensitively because of their heritage values and... Read More about Rethinking retrofit of residential heritage buildings.

Comparative life cycle analysis of façade passive systems in the Mediterranean: Comfort, energy, and carbon (2019)
Journal Article
Mifsud, L., Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. M. (2020). Comparative life cycle analysis of façade passive systems in the Mediterranean: Comfort, energy, and carbon. Renewable Energy, 149, 347-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.072

In the Mediterranean region façade shading systems are used to reduce operational energy, particularly cooling loads. However, operational savings do not necessarily translate into net energy savings unless they outweigh the embodied energy/carbon re... Read More about Comparative life cycle analysis of façade passive systems in the Mediterranean: Comfort, energy, and carbon.

Arguments for a co-production approach to community flood protection (2019)
Journal Article
Fitton, S. L., & Moncaster, A. M. (2019). Arguments for a co-production approach to community flood protection. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 172(7), 335-344. https://doi.org/10.1680/jensu.17.00014

With more intense rainfall and sea level rises predicted, an increasing number of people across the UK are vulnerable to flood events. The government has pledged more funding for flood infrastructure planning, design and management. However, schemes... Read More about Arguments for a co-production approach to community flood protection.

Furthering embodied carbon assessment in practice: Results of an industry-academia collaborative research project (2018)
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Pomponi, F., Moncaster, A., & De Wolf, C. (2018). Furthering embodied carbon assessment in practice: Results of an industry-academia collaborative research project. Energy and Buildings, 167, 177-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.02.052

In order to meet the mid-century carbon reduction targets and to mitigate climate change and global warming it is imperative that embodied greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions in the built environment receive immediate attention from policy, industry an... Read More about Furthering embodied carbon assessment in practice: Results of an industry-academia collaborative research project.

Design and construction strategies for reducing embodied impacts from buildings – Case study analysis (2018)
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Malmqvist, T., Nehasilova, M., Moncaster, A., Birgisdottir, H., Nygaard Rasmussen, F., Houlihan Wiberg, A., & Potting, J. (2018). Design and construction strategies for reducing embodied impacts from buildings – Case study analysis. Energy and Buildings, 166, 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.01.033

The dominance of operational energy and related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of most existing buildings is decreasing in new construction, when primary fossil energy of building operation decreases as result of the implementation of energy efficien... Read More about Design and construction strategies for reducing embodied impacts from buildings – Case study analysis.

Inclusion of on-site renewables in design-stage building life cycle assessments (2017)
Journal Article
Galpin, C., & Moncaster, A. (2017). Inclusion of on-site renewables in design-stage building life cycle assessments. Energy Procedia, 134, 452-461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.603

This paper investigates the inclusion of renewables in building life cycle assessments. On-site renewable electricity generation is increasingly common in the built environment, but existing guidance for the inclusion of these renewable systems in de... Read More about Inclusion of on-site renewables in design-stage building life cycle assessments.

IEA EBC annex 57 ‘evaluation of embodied energy and CO2eq for building construction’ (2017)
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Birgisdottir, H., Moncaster, A., Wiberg, A. H., Chae, C., Yokoyama, K., Balouktsi, M., …Malmqvist, T. (2017). IEA EBC annex 57 ‘evaluation of embodied energy and CO2eq for building construction’. Energy and Buildings, 154, 72-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.08.030

The current regulations to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from buildings have focused on operational energy consumption. Thus legislation excludes measurement and reduction of the embodied energy and embodied GHG emissio... Read More about IEA EBC annex 57 ‘evaluation of embodied energy and CO2eq for building construction’.

Scrutinising embodied carbon in buildings: The next performance gap made manifest (2017)
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Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2018). Scrutinising embodied carbon in buildings: The next performance gap made manifest. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 81(Part 2), 2431-2442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.06.049

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is becoming increasingly mainstream as an early-stage design-decision tool for buildings. Still, there are considerable variations in how the method is currently used, leading to limitations in comparing the results and th... Read More about Scrutinising embodied carbon in buildings: The next performance gap made manifest.

Embodied carbon mitigation and reduction in the built environment – What does the evidence say? (2016)
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Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2016). Embodied carbon mitigation and reduction in the built environment – What does the evidence say?. Journal of Environmental Management, 181, 687-700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.08.036

Of all industrial sectors, the built environment puts the most pressure on the natural environment, and in spite of significant efforts the International Energy Agency suggests that buildings-related emissions are on track to double by 2050. Whilst o... Read More about Embodied carbon mitigation and reduction in the built environment – What does the evidence say?.

Pathways to low carbon building: Reflection on the special issue (2015)
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Moncaster, A. (2015). Pathways to low carbon building: Reflection on the special issue. Buildings, 5(3), 751-758. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings5030751

In 2014, this journal invited me to edit a special issue on low carbon building. We put out a call for papers that offered new perspectives, crossing boundaries between technical and social research approaches. The six papers selected and published h... Read More about Pathways to low carbon building: Reflection on the special issue.

Investigating the social value of the Ripon rivers flood alleviation scheme (2015)
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Fitton, S., Moncaster, A., & Guthrie, P. (2016). Investigating the social value of the Ripon rivers flood alleviation scheme. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 9(4), 370-378. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12176

This paper argues for an approach to flood alleviation design that considers the need not only for technical knowledge, but also a social perspective. It is predicted that more intense rainfall and rising sea levels will result in a greater number of... Read More about Investigating the social value of the Ripon rivers flood alleviation scheme.

Financing energy efficiency measures in buildings – A new method of appraisal (2015)
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Finnegan, S., dos-Santos, J. D., Chow, D. H., Yan, Q. O., & Moncaster, A. (2015). Financing energy efficiency measures in buildings – A new method of appraisal. International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development, 6(2), 62-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/2093761x.2015.1025448

Our current generation strives to provide the next crucial stepping stone towards sustainable buildings, delivering energy efficiency measures without compromise in ways which are financially viable. Selecting and implementing simple energy efficienc... Read More about Financing energy efficiency measures in buildings – A new method of appraisal.