Alice Moncaster

TL;DR: In this article, the fundamental defining dimensions of a circular economy (CE) and frame them for CE studies for the built environment are identified and framed for interdisciplinary research and highlighted the key roles of both bottom-up and top-down initiatives in facilitating the transition to circular buildings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the current construction industry practice through a review of both academic and professional literature, and through focus groups and interviews with industry experts in the field, and identify the barriers to the effective measurement and reduction of embodied CO2e in practice.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the available evidence and results reveal that no single mitigation strategy alone seems able to tackle the problem; rather, a pluralistic approach is necessary.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a whole life embodied carbon and energy of buildings (ECEB) tool, designed as a usable empirical-based approach for early stage design decisions for UK buildings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of 80 case studies, based on which they show various inconsistencies in current methodological approaches, which inhibit comparisons of results and difficult development of robust reduction strategies.