Renewable bio-based circular material economies in timber, post-agricultural by-products and plant-based bioremediation

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Yale CEA

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Christina Ciardullo; Andreas Theodoridis; Phoebe Mankeiwitz; Mohamed Aly Etman; Anna Dyson. (2022)

Evolving Frameworks Towards Identifying Challenges and Opportunities of Indoor Vegetation Systems

ASHRAE Topical Conference Proceedings (2022)

United Nations Environment Programme

2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction

Yale CEA joins UNEP's Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction in Releasing Updates towards Zero Emission Futures for the Built Environment

Phoebe Mankiewicz, Christina Ciardullo, Andreas Theodoridis, Elizabeth Hénaff, Anna Dyson

Indoor Environmental Parameters: Considering Measures of Microbial Ecology in the Characterization of Indoor Air Quality

ASHRAE Topical Conference Proceedings (2022)

Naomi Keena, Marco Raugei, Mae-ling Lokko, Mohamed Aly Etman, Vicky Achnani, Barbara Reck, Anna Dyson (2022)

A Life-Cycle Approach to Investigate the Potential of Novel Biobased Construction Materials toward a Circular Built Environment

Energies (2022)

Phoebe Mankiewicz, Aleca Borsuk, Christina Ciardullo, Elizabeth Hénaff, Anna Dyson

Developing design criteria for active green wall bioremediation performance: Growth media selection shapes plant physiology, water and air flow patterns

Energy and Buildings (2022)

Nick Novelli, Justin Shultz, Mohamed Aly Etman, Kenton Phillips, Melanie Derby, Peter Stark, Michael Jensen, Anna Dyson

System-scale modeling of a building envelope-Integrated, transparent concentrating photovoltaic and thermal collector

Proceedings of IBPC. International Building Physics Conference, Copenhagen (2021)

Nick Novelli, Justin Shultz, Mohamed Aly Etman, Kenton Phillips, Michael Jensen, Jason Vollen, Anna Dyson

Towards Energy-Positive Buildings Through a Quality-Matched Energy Flow Strategy

Proceedings of SDEWES (2021)

Nick Novelli, Kenton Phillips, Justin Shultz, Melanie Derby, Peter Stark, Michael Jensen, J. Craft, Anna Dyson (2021)

"Experimental Investigation of a Building Envelope-Integrated, Transparent Concentrating Photovoltaic and Thermal Collector."

Renewable Energy (2021)

Marco Raugei, Naomi Keena, Nick Novelli, Mohamed Aly Etman, Anna Dyson (2021)

Life cycle assessment of an ecological living module equipped with conventional rooftop or integrated concentrating photovoltaics.

Journal of Industrial Ecology (2021)

Nick Novelli, Justin Shultz, Anna Dyson, Mohamed Aly Etman

Distributed sensing for indoor environments: Comparing measured and simulated indoor airflow data for complex commercial building interiors

Proceedings of BS2021. Building Simulation 2021, Bruges (2021)

Anna Dyson, Naomi Keena, Alan Organschi, Lisa Gray, Nick Novelli, Kipp Bradford, Mark Radka (2020, November)

Built Environment Ecosystems Framework towards Sustainable Urban Housing Infrastructure

In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 588, No. 4, p. 042027). IOP Publishing (2020)

Mohamed Aly Etman, Naomi Keena, Anna Dyson (2020, November)

Socio-Ecological Visual Analytics Environment “SEVA”: A novel visual analytics environment for interdisciplinary decision-making linking human biometrics and environmental data

In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 588, No. 3, p. 032062). IOP Publishing (2020)

Anna Dyson, Naomi Keena, Alan Organschi, Lisa Gray, Nick Novelli, Kipp Bradford, Mohamed Aly Etman, Matt Gindlesparger, Hind Wildman, Jonathan Duwyn, Martina Otto, Sophie Loran, Catherine Beltrandi, Mark Radka (2020)

Built Environment Ecosystems Framework towards Sustainable Urban Housing Infrastructure.

Proceedings of the World Sustainable Built Environment Conference, 9 (2020)

Naomi Keena, Anna Dyson (2020)

State of play for circular built environment in North America. A report compiling the regional state of play for circularity in the built environment in North America across the United States of America.

Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture, Yale University and United Nations One Planet Network Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme (2020)

Naomi Keena, Mohamed Aly Etman, Anna Dyson (2021)

Mapping the Built Environment Process (BEP) Ecosystem via a Data to Knowledge Framework

In Proceedings of the 2020 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: Carbon. Pennsylvania State University, virtual conference (2020)

Nick Novelli, Kenton Phillips, Justin Shultz, Melanie Derby, Peter Stark, Michael Jensen, Jesse Craft, Anna Dyson (2020)

Experimental Investigation of a Building Envelope-Integrated, Transparent Concentrating Photovoltaic and Thermal Collector

In Proceedings of SDEWES (2020)

Naomi Keena, Marco Raugei, Anna Dyson (2019)

The Benefit of Integrating Emergy Synthesis and LCA towards More Comprehensive Analysis of Advanced Building Systems.

In Emergy Synthesis 10, Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Emergy Conference (2019)

Nick Novelli, Robert Gordon, Igor Varfolomeev (2018)

Separating Direct from Diffuse: Observations of Visible Transmittance through a Tracking Photovoltaic Envelope

In Facade Tectonics Institute 2018 World Congress Proceedings Volume 2, 355–64. Los Angeles (2018)

Nick Novelli, Brandon Andow, Scott Overall, Christopher Morse, Mohamed Aly Etman (2018)

Toplighting Technology for Transient Spaces

In Proceedings of the International Building Physics Conference. Syracuse, NY (2018)

Naomi Keena, Marco Raugei, Mohamed Aly Etman, Daniel Ruan, Anna Dyson (2018)

Clark’s Crow: A design plugin to support emergy analysis decision making towards sustainable urban ecologies.

Ecological Modelling, 367, 42-57 (2018)

C.W. Letchford, D.C. Lander, P. Case, A. Dyson, M. Amitay (2017)

Bio-mimicry inspired tall buildings: The response of cactus-like buildings to wind action

Reynolds Number of 104, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Volume 150, Pages 22-30 (2017)

Naomi Keena, Brennen, A., Anna Dyson (2017)

Visualization with the Data Journey Platform.

Presentation at Grand Challenges Meeting, Washington D.C. (2017)

Kenton Phillips, Alexandra Rempel, Anna Dyson (2017)

A Solar Thermal Diurnal Cooling Strategy for Net-Zero Energy Buildings

PLEA 2016 Los Angeles - 36th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture. Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments (2017)

Berardo Matalucci, Kenton Phillips, Walf, A., Anna Dyson, Josh Draper (2017)

An experimental design framework for the personalization of indoor microclimates through feedback loops between responsive thermal systems and occupant biometrics.

International Journal of Architectural Computing, 15(1), 54-69 (2017)

Naomi Keena, Anna Dyson (2017)

Qualifying the quantitative in the construction of built ecologies.

Embodied energy and design (pp. 196-205). New York: Columbia University GSAPP Lars Müller (2017)

Anna Dyson, Naomi Keena, Mohamed Aly Etman, McCusker, J (2017)

Data Visualization Framework.

Poster and Demonstration at the Grand Challenges Meeting, Washington D.C. (2017)

Mohamed Aly Etman, Naomi Keena, Anna Dyson (2017)

A New Parametric Framework: Developing Design Options in Real Time

Edinburgh: 33rd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture. Design to Thrive. (2017)

Keena, N., Aly M., Diniz, N., Rempel A., Dyson A. (2017)

Towards an Emergy Evaluation Framework to Visualize and Map Emergy and Material Flows of Built Environment Life Cycle Analysis

In Proceedings of the 9th biennial emergy conference. Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida Gainesville, FL (2017)

Naomi Keena, Mohamed Aly Etman, Josh Draper, Paulo Pinheiro, Anna Dyson (2017)

Interactive Visualization for Interdisciplinary Research

Electronic Imaging 2016, no. 1,1-7 (2017)

Eli Lichter-Mark, Mohamed Aly Etman, Anna Dyson (2017)

Simulation of building integrated solar energy storage system in hot humid climates

PLEA 2016 Los Angeles: Towards Regenerative Environments (2017)

Mae-Ling Lokko, Anna Dyson, Alexandra Rempel (2017)

Development of Affordable Building Materials Using Agricultural Waste By-Products and Emerging Pith, Soy and Mycelium Biobinders.

PLEA 2016 Los Angeles: Towards Regenerative Environments (2017)

Jayamary Divya Ravichandar, Anna Dyson, Cynthia H. Collins (2017)

Phylogenetic and Functional Profiling of the Microbiome Associated with a Phytoremediation System Targeting Air Quality in the Built Environment

AIChE Annual Meeting, 2017

Chris Letchford, Daniel Lander, Peter Case, Anna Dyson, Michael Amitay (2016)

Bio-mimicry inspired tall buildings: The response of cactus-like buildings to wind action.

Reynolds Number of 10x4, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Volume 150, Pages 22-30. (2016)

Naomi Keena, Mohamed Aly Etman, Josh Draper, Paulo Pinheiro, Anna Dyson (2016)

Interactive Visualization for Interdisciplinary Research

Electronic Imaging, no. 1,1-7 (2016)

Elise Patton, Jayamary Divya Ravichandar, Matthew Urschel, Kristin Bennett, Anna Dyson, Rogers, K., Claire Collins, McGuinness, D. (2016)

Augmenting Functional Microbiome Research using a Semantically-Enabled Analytical Infrastructure

In Proceedings of the Bio-Ontologies 2016 conference. International Society for computational biology (2016)

Anne Wrobetz, Ahu Aydogan, Lupita Montoya (2015)

Physical and Biological Characterization of Porous Media for VOC Removal

Proceedings of American Association for Aerosol Research 34th Annual Conference (2015)

Mohamed Aly Etman, Nick Novelli, Justin Shultz, Kenton Phillips, Brandon Andow, Anna Dyson (2015)

Daylighting Effect of Separating Direct and Diffuse Insolation with Facade-Integrated, Transparent Solar Collector.

Proceedings of the PLEA Conference. Bologna (2015)

Ahu Aydogan, Anna Dyson, Lupita Montoya (2015)

From a Lab Scale to the Building Scale: Formaldehyde Removal by a Plant Module.

Proceedings of Healthy Buildings America (2015)

Shane Ida Smith, Anna Dyson (2015)

Framework for Tetra-functional Control of Viscoelastic Molecular Entropy in Biopolymeric Hydrogel Dynamics for Environmentally Responsive Metabolic Processes in Morphological Architectural Membranes.