Alice Moncaster's Outputs (5)

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.

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