My Research
Bridging architecture, sustainability, and digital methods to advance circular construction.
My research sits at the intersection of the built environment, circular economy, and digital methods. I explore how buildings and material systems can remain in use for longer, how digital tools can support better lifecycle decisions, and how circularity can become measurable and actionable in practice.
Circular Economy
in Construction
My research explores how circular economy principles can be embedded across the built environment, from design and material use to end-of-life decision-making. I develop frameworks and guidance that support practitioners, policymakers, and researchers in making circular construction more measurable, practical, and implementable.
This includes work on barriers and enablers, stakeholder mapping, and European standardisation through my role at CEN/TC 350 SC1 on behalf of ECOS.
BIM, Digitalisation
& Material Passports
I examine how BIM, digital tools, and material passports can improve traceability, transparency, and lifecycle decision-making in construction. My work focuses on using digitalisation to turn circular economy principles into practical workflows for industry and the built environment.
My PhD dissertation focused on BIM-based frameworks for end-of-life management and EU BIM adoption. Through the AMRUC project, I develop material passport frameworks and pilot digital platforms with industry partners.
Reuse & End-of-Life
Strategy
A key strand of my research focuses on how buildings, materials, and assets can be recovered, reused, and managed more effectively at end of life. I explore deconstruction, lifecycle planning, and reuse strategies that help retain material value and support more circular outcomes.
This includes systematic reviews of material passport platforms, co-authored practitioner recommendations, and applied research on reuse in construction and renewable energy sectors.
Earth Construction
& Low-Impact Materials
My research explores earth construction as a low-impact, circular, and regenerative approach to building. This includes work on rammed earth, compressed earth blocks, material performance, and the barriers and opportunities linked to wider adoption in practice.
I have contributed to projects on earth blocks in Vietnam (Newton Funds), supervised PhD research on BIM for earthen architecture, and my chapter for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale examines why earth is the ultimate circular building material.
Solar PV
Sustainability
Alongside my work in construction, I research sustainability challenges in the solar photovoltaic sector, with a focus on circularity and end-of-life strategy. This includes renewable asset transitions, industry-facing outputs, and applied research on more sustainable pathways for solar PV systems.
The ERALD project — winner of ESG Innovation of the Year 2025 — produced a white paper, an industry roadmap, and multiple publications. I am also contributing to perspectives submitted to Nature Sustainability on the solar PV end-of-life challenge.
Key Collaborations
My research is shaped by collaborations across architecture, circular economy, digital construction, material reuse, earth construction, and renewable asset transitions.
University of Hong Kong
Circular economy in construction, BIM, digitalisation
University of Bath
Architecture, sustainability, low-impact construction
Lancaster University, UK
Materials passports, reuse, circular construction
ENTPE Lyon
Earth construction, low-impact materials, regenerative approaches
Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology
Digital deconstruction, reuse, end-of-life strategy
University of Edinburgh
Earthen construction, sustainable materials
Loughborough University
Circular built environment, reuse, lifecycle thinking
Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam
Earth construction, low-impact materials, international research