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Guillaume Habert

Guillaume Habert

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
64
Citations
18403
World Ranking
1617
National Ranking
29

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
65
Citations
18402
World Ranking
2175
National Ranking
61

Overview

Guillaume Habert is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has established a research profile focused primarily on environmental impacts and sustainability within the building and construction sectors. They have contributed extensively to the understanding of sustainable building design and assessment as well as the environmental consequences of concrete and cement materials.

The scientist's main fields of study encompass Engineering and Environmental Science, with notable subfields including Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Strategy and Management.

Their research topics cover several aspects of sustainability and building performance, such as:

  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
  • Hygrothermal properties of building materials
  • Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials
  • Concrete and Cement Materials Research

Recent publications involving Guillaume Habert reflect their focus areas. Among these are:

  • "Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries", 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions in the cement industry via value chain mitigation strategies", 2021, One Earth
  • "Biogenic carbon in buildings: a critical overview of LCA methods", 2020, Buildings and Cities
  • "Review of visualising LCA results in the design process of buildings", 2020, Building and Environment
  • "Carbon budgets for buildings: harmonising temporal, spatial and sectoral dimensions", 2020, Buildings and Cities

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Coralie Brumaud
  • Alina Galimshina
  • Alexander Hollberg
  • Sébastien Lasvaux
  • Francesco Pittau

Habert's work has been published across various venues, with recurring contributions to:

  • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sustainability
  • Building and Environment
  • Energy and Buildings

They have also authored a book published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, titled "Introduction to durability, sustainability and life cycle assessment of concrete structures - Lecture notes of the DuRSAAM training course held September 2020".

Best Publications

  • An environmental evaluation of geopolymer based concrete production: reviewing current research trends

    G. Habert;J.B. d’Espinose de Lacaillerie;N. Roussel

  • Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries

    Guillaume Habert;Sabbie A. Miller;Vanderley M. John;John L. Provis

  • Vision of 3D printing with concrete — Technical, economic and environmental potentials

    Geert De Schutter;Karel Lesage;Viktor Mechtcherine;Venkatesh Naidu Nerella

  • Embodied GHG emissions of buildings – The hidden challenge for effective climate change mitigation

    Martin Röck;Marcella Ruschi Mendes Saade;Maria Balouktsi;Freja Nygaard Rasmussen

  • Environmental impact of cement production: detail of the different processes and cement plant variability evaluation

    C. Chen;C. Chen;G. Habert;Y. Bouzidi;A. Jullien

  • LCA allocation procedure used as an incitative method for waste recycling: An application to mineral additions in concrete

    Cong Chen;Cong Chen;Guillaume Habert;Youcef Bouzidi;Agnès Jullien

  • Productivity of digital fabrication in construction: Cost and time analysis of a robotically built wall

    Borja García de Soto;Borja García de Soto;Isolda Agustí-Juan;Jens Juri Hunhevicz;Samuel Joss

  • Cement Production Technology Improvement Compared to Factor 4 Objectives

    Guillaume Habert;Catherine Billard;Pierre Rossi;Cong Chen

  • LCA and BIM: Visualization of environmental potentials in building construction at early design stages

    Martin Röck;Alexander Hollberg;Guillaume Habert;Alexander Passer

  • Assessing the environmental and economic potential of Limestone Calcined Clay Cement in Cuba

    S. Sánchez Berriel;A. Favier;E. Rosa Domínguez;I.R. Sánchez Machado

  • Recent update on the environmental impact of geopolymers

    Guillaume Habert;Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon

  • Fast-growing bio-based materials as an opportunity for storing carbon in exterior walls

    Francesco Pittau;Felix Krause;Gabriele Lumia;Gabriele Lumia;Guillaume Habert

  • Evaluation of BIM-based LCA results for building design

    Alexander Hollberg;Alexander Hollberg;Gianluca Genova;Guillaume Habert

  • Limestone calcined clay cement as a low carbon solution to meet expanding cement demand in emerging economies.

    Yudiesky Cancio Díaz;Sofia Sánchez Berriel;Urs Heierli;Aurélie R. Favier

  • Study of two concrete mix-design strategies to reach carbon mitigation objectives

    G. Habert;N. Roussel

  • Multiscale magmatic cyclicity, duration of pluton construction, and the paradoxical relationship between tectonism and plutonism in continental arcs

    Michel de Saint Blanquat;Eric Horsman;Guillaume Habert;Sven Morgan

  • Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions in the cement industry via value chain mitigation strategies

    Sabbie A. Miller;Guillaume Habert;Rupert J. Myers;John T. Harvey

  • Environmental design guidelines for digital fabrication

    Isolda Agustí-Juan;Guillaume Habert

  • Potential benefits of digital fabrication for complex structures: Environmental assessment of a robotically fabricated concrete wall

    Isolda Agustí-Juan;Florian Müller;Norman Hack;Timothy Wangler

  • Lowering the global warming impact of bridge rehabilitations by using Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concretes

    G. Habert;G. Habert;E. Denarié;A. Šajna;P. Rossi

  • Buildings environmental impacts' sensitivity related to LCA modelling choices of construction materials

    Ian-Frederic Häfliger;Viola John;Alexander Passer;Sebastien Lasvaux

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas Roussel
Nicolas Roussel École des Ponts ParisTech
Guido Sonnemann
Guido Sonnemann University of Bordeaux
José Dinis Silvestre
José Dinis Silvestre Instituto Superior Técnico
Basil Tikoff
Basil Tikoff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Fausto Freire
Fausto Freire University of Coimbra
Karen Scrivener
Karen Scrivener École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Pilar Aranda
Pilar Aranda Spanish National Research Council
Bruno Sudret
Bruno Sudret ETH Zurich
Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky
Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky Spanish National Research Council

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