Philip Oldfield

TL;DR: In this paper, the average and peak temperature drop of reflective technologies, greenery, evaporative systems, earth-to-air heat exchangers and their combinations is calculated and presented, and the mitigation potential of the main systems like cool roofs, cool pavements, green roofs, urban trees, pools and ponds, sprinklers, fountains, and evaporative towers is analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the history of energy use in tall buildings, from their origins in North America in the late nineteenth century to the present day, and examine the factors affecting their energy performance.

TL;DR: Embodied carbon savings are found to be comparable to conventional strategies to reduce operating carbon emissions such as the use of a high-performance building facade over the building's life.

TL;DR: The definition, characterisation and a comparative analysis of existing applications in the field of biomimetic adaptive building skins (Bio-ABS) are presented, including an overview of the state-of-the-art and a meta-analysis of fifty-two applications to determine performance trends, opportunities and challenges.

TL;DR: In this paper, an Australian-specific hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) is developed and applied to a mixed-use building complex located in central Sydney, Australia, and a list of GHG emissions intensities (GEIs) for 118 construction products is derived from hybrid LCA, demonstrating an average increase of 20% than the corresponding process-based GEIs.