Enabling steel’s circular economy potential
Michal Drewniok discusses the principles of reusing steel elements and encourages structural engineers to consider this option over designing with new material. Half of all steel is used...
Publications
Food Traceability: A Generic Theoretical Framework
Traceability of food products is both a legal and market requirement. Numerous studies have been performed in food traceability but there is no common, clear understanding of its...
Creating a Water Quality Scale Methodology Using California as a Case Study
Water availability analysis traditionally has involved understanding how much water enters and leaves a region and how much is used or stored each year. This mass balance of...
The Lightest Beam Method
Over the last ten years, global demand for concrete has grown three-fold and for steel two-fold. Both are responsible for approximately 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG),...
Should transition bonds have a place in the path towards carbon neutrality?
“The European Union’s target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 is a costly one. An annual investment of €260 billion is estimated as needed to advance EU transition...
Energy reduction in construction
Redukcja energochłonności w budownictwie (Energy reduction in construction) by Michal Drewniok is now available! Download the chapter here (PL) EN: The construction sector is considered to be the...
THE ‘P’ WORD
THE ‘P’ WORD – Plastic in the UK: practical and pervasive … but problematic By Jonathan Cullen, Michal Drewniok and André Cabrera Serrenho Click here to download the...
Exergy calculator
The use of energy and materials in modern society is associated with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that exacerbate climate change. To reduce emissions, a combined energy and material...
Sustainable Materials—with both eyes open
Materials, transformed from natural resource into the buildings, equipment, vehicles and goods that underpin our remarkable lifestyles, are made with amazing efficiency. But our growing demand is not...
Energy Cost Metric
The construction and operation of buildings is responsible for 36% of global energy use and 39% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. The environmental impact of the buildings depends...