All Outputs (472)

Why architects matter (2018)
Journal Article

Review of Flora Samuel's book 'Why Architects Matter'

Furthering embodied carbon assessment in practice: Results of an industry-academia collaborative research project (2018)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Embodied Carbon in Buildings: Measurement, Management, and Mitigation (2018)
Book

Embodied carbon is, to some extent, an odd beast. Its importance is evident and the beneficial consequences of its reduction undeniable. We know that the built envi- ronment is a major source of our carbon excesses, yet most policies focus only on pa... Read More about Embodied Carbon in Buildings: Measurement, Management, and Mitigation.

Embodied carbon measurement, mitigation and management within Europe, drawing on a cross-case analysis of 60 building case studies (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art on this subject within Europe. In order to do so, it draws on a cross-case analysis of over 60 European case studies, developed and analysed by the authors as part of the Internat... Read More about Embodied carbon measurement, mitigation and management within Europe, drawing on a cross-case analysis of 60 building case studies.

Women, Boards, and the UK Built Environment (2017)
Report

"The most recent 2017 statistics have seen a small increase in women holding technical roles in UK industry. However, despite years of attention from industry leaders, activists and government, the built environment sector has failed to achieve femal... Read More about Women, Boards, and the UK Built Environment.

Inclusion of on-site renewables in design-stage building life cycle assessments (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Australian Islamic Centre: Glenn Murcutt’s ‘Magnum opus’ (2017)
Journal Article

A review of Murcutt's Melbourne Mosque in the context of his practice output

Building Information Modelling, Building Performance, Design and Smart Construction (2017)
Book

The application and barriers of BIM in sustainable building design (2017)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore and rank the benefits and barriers (technological and non-technological) of using Building Information Modelling (BIM) in sustainable building design. It also employs the use of a design tool analysis... Read More about The application and barriers of BIM in sustainable building design.

Embodied carbon mitigation and reduction in the built environment – What does the evidence say? (2016)
Journal Article

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?.

Beyond food provision: Understanding community growing in the context of food poverty (2016)
Journal Article

The use of state-of-the-art transport models by policymakers – beauty in simplicity? (2016)
Journal Article

Abstract: Transport demand models have a long history of being a major tool in transport policy making. However, whether they are truly used in decision-making processes, and if so, whether the knowledge they provide is actually understood, is questi... Read More about The use of state-of-the-art transport models by policymakers – beauty in simplicity?.

Micromorphology of the lower Pleistocene loess in the Iranian Loess Plateau and its paleoclimatic implications (2016)
Journal Article

The loess deposits in Iran are a valuable archive of regional paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental information. Extensive sedimentological and chronological studies have been carried out on the middle to upper Pleistocene loess successions during the... Read More about Micromorphology of the lower Pleistocene loess in the Iranian Loess Plateau and its paleoclimatic implications.

Grain-size distribution of Pleistocene loess deposits in northern Iran and its palaeoclimatic implications (2016)
Journal Article

The loess deposits in northern Iran are located in a key region connected to the European and central Asian loess belts. However, the lack of previous detailed sedimentological and palaeoclimatic studies of the Pleistocene loess in the region limits... Read More about Grain-size distribution of Pleistocene loess deposits in northern Iran and its palaeoclimatic implications.

Early Pleistocene climate in western arid central Asia inferred from loess-palaeosol sequences (2016)
Journal Article

Arid central Asia (ACA) is one of the most arid regions in the mid-latitudes and one of the main potential dust sources for the northern hemisphere. The lack of in situ early Pleistocene loess/dust records from ACA hinders our comprehensive understan... Read More about Early Pleistocene climate in western arid central Asia inferred from loess-palaeosol sequences.

Pathways to low carbon building: Reflection on the special issue (2015)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.