All Outputs (8)

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 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.