Publications related to Embodied energy

David Michael Volpe Ruggiero, Paola Costanza Miglietta

This study addresses the critical need for sustainable architectural designs within the context of climate change and the significant role the built environment plays in greenhouse gas emissions. The focus of this paper is on understanding the influence of ...

2024

Multiscale Spatiotemporal Characterization of Embodied Environmental Performance of Building Structures in Geneva from 1850 to 2018

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf, Serena Vanbutsele

Load-bearing systems in buildings, significant in material use and embodied greenhouse gas emissions (EGHGE), have lacked detailed analysis on their environmental and functional relationships over time and space. This study evaluates the environmental impa ...

2024

RE:SLAB — a load bearing system for open-ended component reuse in building structures

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Dario Redaelli, Alex-Manuel Muresan, Edisson Xavier Estrella Arcos

The construction industry plays a major role in the high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, resource consumption, and waste generation observed nowadays. Key to the circular economy, structural component reuse arises as a promising solution to divert cons ...

2024

Osmosis-driven stiffening of structured hydrogels

Esther Amstad, Ran Zhao, Alexandra Thoma

Plant cells harness osmotic pressures to stiffen their leaves through strong turgor pressures. Key to this osmosisdriven stiffening is the confinement of liquids within semipermeable membranes that can regulate the transport of water molecules and ions. In ...

Elsevier2024

Interactive design with optimum matchmaking of reused structural elements – a software implementation

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

Structural systems are a significant contributor to buildings’ embodied carbon and reusing structural elements in new load-bearing applications is one strategy to reduce this impact. However, integrating this approach into existing design workflows without ...

International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)2023

OccuVAE: Integrating unsupervised occupancy inference in data-driven energy modeling for human-centric operation

Andrew James Sonta, Yufei Zhang

Data-driven building energy modeling is an emerging solution to facilitate the implementation of energy-flexible buildings. However, its black-box nature hinders interpretation, including with respect to human-building interaction. This drawback may bring ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Design of New Low-Carbon Floor Systems by Reusing Cut Cast-in-Place Concrete Pieces

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Célia Marine Küpfer, Numa Joy Bertola

As floors typically account for the largest share of a building embodied carbon footprint, new strategies to build low-carbon floors must be developed and implemented. Among these strategies, the reuse of existing components is a promising circular approac ...

Novus Press2023

Energy, SBS symptoms, and productivity in Swiss open-space offices: Economic evaluation of standard, actual, and optimum scenarios

Dusan Licina, Dolaana Khovalyg, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Arnab Chatterjee, Cecile Anne Berquand

The fundamental aspiration of new-generation high-performing buildings is to reduce energy use while securing indoor environmental quality conducive to human health and productivity. However, existing frameworks for identifying Key Performance Indicators ( ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

On Multiphysical Couplings in Energy Geotechnics: Relevance and Applications

Alessio Ferrari

Energy Geotechnics includes several applications related to the recovery and storage of energy from and into the ground, energy transportation, and the management of waste and carbon dioxide generated from energy use. These applications often involve the n ...

Wei Wu, Universität für Bodenkultur2023

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Multiscale Spatiotemporal Characterization of Embodied Environmental Performance of Building Structures in Geneva from 1850 to 2018

RE:SLAB — a load bearing system for open-ended component reuse in building structures

Osmosis-driven stiffening of structured hydrogels

Interactive design with optimum matchmaking of reused structural elements – a software implementation

OccuVAE: Integrating unsupervised occupancy inference in data-driven energy modeling for human-centric operation

Design of New Low-Carbon Floor Systems by Reusing Cut Cast-in-Place Concrete Pieces

Energy, SBS symptoms, and productivity in Swiss open-space offices: Economic evaluation of standard, actual, and optimum scenarios

On Multiphysical Couplings in Energy Geotechnics: Relevance and Applications

Resiliency lessons of traditional living in nomadic yurts

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Embodied Carbon Premium for Cantilevers

RE:SLAB — a load bearing system for open-ended component reuse in building structures

Osmosis-driven stiffening of structured hydrogels

Interactive design with optimum matchmaking of reused structural elements – a software implementation

On Multiphysical Couplings in Energy Geotechnics: Relevance and Applications

Design of New Low-Carbon Floor Systems by Reusing Cut Cast-in-Place Concrete Pieces

Energy, SBS symptoms, and productivity in Swiss open-space offices: Economic evaluation of standard, actual, and optimum scenarios

Resiliency lessons of traditional living in nomadic yurts

OccuVAE: Integrating unsupervised occupancy inference in data-driven energy modeling for human-centric operation