Scientific Journey & Academic Discoveries

Preoptima is rooted in scientific rigour and rests on over 25 years of combined academic research. Its academic creators are Professor Francesco Pomponi and Dr. Bernardino D’Amico, soon after joined by Dr. Jay Arehart. This international collaboration has ensured that Preoptima was built from day one with a global outlook and currently already decarbonising new projects in both the UK and the US.

The scientific profiles of the academic founders can be seen on Google Scholar (their works have been cited > 6,000 times and downloaded > 100,000 times globally):

Francesco

Francesco Pomponi

Full Professor | REBEL, Edinburgh Napier University | CISL, University of Cambridge
Bernardino-1

Bernardino D'Amico

Associate Professor | Edinburgh Napier University

Jay

Jay H. Arehart

University of Colorado Boulder

Publications

Some of the peer-reviewed scientific papers that are more relevant to Preoptima are the following:

Structural material demand and associated embodied carbon emissions of the United States building stock: 2020–2100

Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Francesco Pomponi, Alice Moncaster 

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Enhancing the Practicality of Tools to Estimate the Whole Life Embodied Carbon of Building Structures via Machine Learning Models

Frontiers in Built Environment (2021)
Francesco Pomponi, Maria Luque Anguita, Michal Lange, Bernardino D'Amico, Emma Hart

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Decoupling density from tallness in analysing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of cities

npj Urban Sustainability (2021)
Francesco Pomponi, Ruth Saint, Jay H. Arehart, Niaz Gharavi, Bernardino D'Amico

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Whole-life embodied carbon in multistory buildings: Steel, concrete and timber structures

Journal of Industrial Ecology (2021)
Jim Hart, Bernardino D'Amico, Francesco Pomponi

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A New Estimate of Building Floor Space in North America

Environmental Science & Technology (2021)
Jay H. Arehart, Francesco Pomponi, Bernardino D'Amico, Wil V. Srubar III

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Global potential for material substitution in building construction: The case of cross laminated timber

Journal of Cleaner Production (2021)
Bernardino D'Amico, Francesco Pomponi, Jim Hart

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Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts

Sustainability (2020)
Francesco Pomponi, Bernardino D'Amico

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Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink? A Reality Check on Feasibility Limits

One Earth (2020)
Francesco Pomponi, Jim Hart, Jay H. Arehart, Bernardino D'Amico

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Embodied vs. Operational Energy and Carbon Emissions of Doe Reference Buildings from a Life-Cycle Perspective

ASHRAE (2020)
Jay H. Arehart, Wil Srubar, Francesco Pomponi, Bernardino D'Amico

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A compactness measure of sustainable building forms

Royal Society Publishing (2019)
Bernardino D'Amico, Francesco Pomponi, 

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Machine Learning for Sustainable Structures: A Call for Data

Structures (2019)
B. D'Amico, R.J. Myers, J. Sykes, E. Voss, B Cousins-Jenvey, W. Fawcett, S. Richardson, A. Kermani, F. Pomponi

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Accuracy and reliability: A computational tool to minimise steel mass and carbon emissions at early-stage structural design

Energy and Buildings
Bernardino D'Amico, Francesco Pomponi

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Sustainability Tool to Optimise Material Quantities of Steel in the Construction Industry

Procedia CIRP
Bernardino D'Amico, Francesco Pomponi

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Scrutinising embodied carbon in buildings: The next performance gap made manifest

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Francesco Pomponi, Alice Moncaster 

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