Circular cities: the case of Singapore
Journal Article
Carrière, S., Weigend Rodriguez, R., Pey, P., Pomponi, F., & Ramakrishna, S. (2020)
Circular cities: the case of Singapore. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 10(4), 491-507. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-12-2019-0137
Circular Economy (CE), as a new economic paradigm has gained traction in recent years. Cities’ role in driving CE forward has been perceived as being increasingly important to...
Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic
Journal Article
Lenzen, M., Li, M., Malik, A., Pomponi, F., Sun, Y., Wiedmann, T., …Yousefzadeh, M. (2020)
Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic. PLOS ONE, 15(7), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235654
On 3 April 2020, the Director-General of the WHO stated: “[COVID-19] is much more than a health crisis. We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of th...
The Future of the Circular Economy & the Circular Economy of the Future
Journal Article
Weigend, R., Pomponi, F., Webster, K., & D'Amico, B. (2020)
The Future of the Circular Economy & the Circular Economy of the Future. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 10(4), 529-546. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-07-2019-0063
In the published online version the abstract suffered minor changes. The new abstract reads:
The circular economy (CE) has gained momentum in recent years as a new economic pa...
Embodied vs. Operational Energy and Carbon Emissions of Doe Reference Buildings from a Life-Cycle Perspective
Presentation / Conference
Arehart, J., Srubar, W., Pomponi, F., & D'Amico, B. (2020, June)
Embodied vs. Operational Energy and Carbon Emissions of Doe Reference Buildings from a Life-Cycle Perspective. Presented at ASHRAE 2020, Online
While the reduction of operational energy and associated emissions has been the focus of the building design community in recent decades, focus must now be given to reducing t...
How Do People Move Around? National Data on Transport Modal Shares for 131 Countries
Journal Article
Fountas, G., Sun, Y., Akizu-Gardoki, O., & Pomponi, F. (2020)
How Do People Move Around? National Data on Transport Modal Shares for 131 Countries. World, 1(1), 34-43. https://doi.org/10.3390/world1010003
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought global mobility into the spotlight, with well over 100 countries having instituted either a full or partial lockdown by April 2020. Reduced m...
On mass quantities of gravity frames in building structures
Journal Article
D'Amico, B., & Pomponi, F. (2020)
On mass quantities of gravity frames in building structures. Journal of Building Engineering, 31, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2020.101426
This paper introduces a numerical study aimed at analysing and quantifying existing correlations between structural masses of the gravity frame in building structures (i.e. ex...
More Timber in Construction: Unanswered Questions and Future Challenges
Journal Article
Hart, J., & Pomponi, F. (2020)
More Timber in Construction: Unanswered Questions and Future Challenges. Sustainability, 12(8), https://doi.org/10.3390/su12083473
The built environment is one of the greatest contributors to carbon emissions, climate change, and to the unsustainable pressure on the natural environment and its ecosystems....
Qualifying the Sustainability of Novel Designs and Existing Solutions for Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Sheltering
Journal Article
Alshawawreh, L., Alshawawreh, L., Pomponi, F., Pomponi, F., D'Amico, B., D’Amico, B., …Guthrie, P. (2020)
Qualifying the Sustainability of Novel Designs and Existing Solutions for Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Sheltering. Sustainability, 12(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/su12030890
During the course of 2018, 70.8 million people globally were forcibly displaced due to natural disasters and conflicts—a staggering increase of 2.9 million people compared to ...
Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making
Journal Article
Susca, T., & Pomponi, F. (2020)
Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 24(2), 410-423. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12980
Urbanization often entails a surge in urban temperature compared to the rural surroundings: the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Such a temperature increase triggers the format...
Comparative life cycle analysis of façade passive systems in the Mediterranean: comfort, energy, and carbon
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...