Outputs

Proceedings/Journals

Adelekan, A., & Sharmina, M. (2025) A review of circular business models for zero carbon, zero waste and zero material extraction in the building sector. Procedia CIRP, 135, 14–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.127

Boskovic, A., & Cullen, J.M. (2025) Barriers, enablers, and opportunities for scaling-up innovative and circular domestic retrofit business models in the UK, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.146153

Gillott, C., Lanau, M., Mitchell Reid, E., Sharmin, F., & Densley Tingley, D. (2025). Material stocks and embodied carbon in UK buildings: An archetype-based, bottom-up, GIS approach. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70066

Pre-prints/Briefing Notes

Graham, M., Gillott, C., Hincks, S. and Densley Tingley, D. (2024). Embodied Carbon and the Circular Economy: Analysing UK Planning Systems and Policy. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17726.80960

Gillott, C., Graham, M., Saxton, G., Giesekam, J, and Densley Tingley, D.  (2025) Projected embodied carbon emissions from England’s buildings by location, type and regulatory level (BuildZero Briefing No. 1). https://doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.29636411

National Consultations

Responses to call for evidence on Environmental sustainability and housing growth.  Written evidence provided in response to call for evidence on Environmental sustainability and housing growth (https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3474/)

ISIE, Singapore, June 2025

Presentations

Dai, M., Liu, G., Densley Tingley, D. and Gillott, C. (2025) Developing Machine Learning Tools for High Resolution Building Stock Modelling. 

Tan, L.M., Arbabi, H. and Densley Tingley, D. (2025) Analysing the spatial logistics of construction materials for a circular economy.

Gillott, C., Maharjan, S., Saxton, G. and Densley Tingley, D. (2025) Developing a high-resolution model of UK building material stocks.

Cullen, J. (2025) Pursuing decarbonisation and circularity.

Lupton, R. (2025) Flow programming: creating non-linear process models for MFA and LCA systems as code. 

Watt, H., Davison, B., Hodgson, P. Kitching, C. and Densley Tingley, D. (2025) Adaptable vs optimised: Using a novel long-term decision-making method to develop sustainable building designs of the future

Berrill, P., Napiontek, J., Gillott, C., Kopp, M., Milojevic-Dupont, N., Nachtigall, F., Creutzig, F. (2025) Building-level material stock estimates and outlook for Europe.

Special session, organised and chaired by BuildZero Consortium members: Spatially explicit material stocks and flows, towards integrated modelling approaches.

Session Chairs

Circular economy methods: Jonathan Cullen

Infrastructure: André Cabrera Serrenho

Life cycle assessment methods: Rick Lupton 

Circularity in the Built environment, Finland, September 2025

BuildZero was well represented by members from Sheffield, with several presentations, including:

Maharjan, S., Gillott, C., Saxton, G. and Densley Tingley, D. (2025) High-resolution material stock modelling of UK buildings for a circular built environment.

Saxton, G. Maharjan, S., Gillott, C., and Densley Tingley, D. (2025) Modelling material stocks, embodied carbon and circular economy potential in UK building services.

Tan, L.M., Arbabi, H. and Densley Tingley, D. (2025) Analysing the spatial logistics of construction materials for a circular economy.

Watt, H. Davison, B., Hodgson, P., Kitching, C., and Densley Tingley, D. (2025) Adaptability vs optimisation (and the time-value of carbon).