The Life Cycle Lab at UW’s College of Built Environments leads research to advance life cycle assessment (LCA) data, methods and approaches to enable optimization of materials, buildings and infrastructure. Our work is structured to inform impactful policies and practices …
Research Theme: Natural Resources & Sustainability
Use or conservation of resources as well as broader notions of sustainability in the built environment
2024 CBE Inspire Fund Awardees Announced
The CBE Inspire Fund Awardees for the 2024 cycle have been selected! Their project names and team members are outlined below.
Title: Mycelium Grow Lab for Student-led Research
Team: Gundula Proksch (Associate Professor, Architecture), Tyler Sprague (Associate Professor, Architecture)
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Unraveling energy justice in NYC urban buildings through social media sentiment analysis and transformer deep learning
Ashayeri, M., & Abbasabadi, N. (2024). Unraveling energy justice in NYC urban buildings through social media sentiment analysis and transformer deep learning. Energy and Buildings, 306, 113914-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.113914
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Reducing Fatal Bird Collisions on UW Campus
College of Built Environments Ph.D. researcher Judy Bowes has been featured in a story, entitled “New research aims to reduce fatal bird collisions on campus” on UW News highlighting her project work. The video below dives into her work.
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Cities of the Anthropocene: urban sustainability in an eco-evolutionary perspective
Alberti, Marina. (2023). Cities of the Anthropocene: urban sustainability in an eco-evolutionary perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379:20220264. 20220264.
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Judy Bowes’ Research Featured in The Daily
Judy Bowes was featured on The Daily with a story about her Bird Friendly UW project. An excerpt is below.
“UW researchers estimate that buildings on campus are responsible for 10,000 to 15,000 bird deaths, with up to 1 billion …
To Achieve Goal Alignment by Inter-Organizational Incentives: A Case Study of a Hydropower Project
Wang, Y., Hu, S., Lee, H. W., Tang, W., Shen, W., & Qiang, M. (2023). To Achieve Goal Alignment by Inter-Organizational Incentives: A Case Study of a Hydropower Project. Buildings (Basel), 13(9), 2258–. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13092258
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“Moving or not?”: Factors affecting community responses to environmental disruption
Depari, Catharina D.A., & Lindell, Michael K. (2023). “Moving or not?”: Factors affecting community responses to environmental disruption. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 95, 103898.
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Aaron Julius M. Lecciones
Research Interests: urban sustainability and resiliency, hybridized built environments, wetland city and wetland center typologies, nature-based solutions and scalable blue-green-gray infrastructure, human ecology and urban informatics in urban design…
Anna Malesis
Research Interests: urban eco-evolutionary dynamics, urban complexity, landscape ecology, scenario planning, and nature’s contributions to people/nature-based solutions…