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A/Prof

Robert Crawford

A/Prof Construction & Environmental Assessment
Architecture, Building and Planning
Sustainable buildings
Zero emission buildings
Embodied energy
Embodied environmental flows
Circular economy
Life cycle assessment
Environmentally extended input-output analysis
Construction
EPiC Database
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A/Prof

Robert Crawford

 
Division
Architecture, Building and Planning
 
Primary Interest
Environmental impacts of construction
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Projects

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Battery Materials for a Circular Economy: Advancing Certification and Improving Life-Cycle Impacts for Market Advantage

2020 - 2025
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Materials Index for BASIX

2021 - 2021
Active
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Letters of Co-operation Breathe Architecture & Nightingale Housing Pty Ltd

2019 - 2021
Completed
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Cross-cultural analysis and capacity building in construction management practices focusing on housing and infrastructure sectors in Assam and Australia

2016 - 2020
Completed
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Sub-agreement to Cross-cultural analysis and capacity building in Construction Management Practices in Assam and Australia

2016 - 2019
Completed
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Improving the Environmental Performance of Australian Construction Projects

This project aims to investigate the environmental impacts of construction in Australia through the development of a sophisticated hybrid en..

2015 - 2019
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Assessing the life cycle environmental and financial performance of neighbourhoods

2017 - 2018
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RP2007: Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM) a multi-scale life cycle approach to assessing mapping and tracking carbon outcomes for the Built Environment

2014 - 2018
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RP2007: Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM) a multi-scale life cycle approach to assessing mapping and tracking carbon outcomes for the Built Environment

2014 - 2018
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INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT SIMULATION FOR ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES: BOOSTING THE DYNAMIC MODELLING CAPACITY OF THE INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY VIRTUAL LABORATORY

This project aims to enable Australian research leaders working on the integrated sustainability assessment of policies, products and projec..

2016 - 2017
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

10

Research Contracts

10

Research Grant

5

Internal Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

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Home-delivered food has a huge climate cost. So which cuisine is the worst culprit?

Robert Crawford

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2021

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A web-based tool for streamlining environmental decision-making in building design

RH Crawford, V Bunster

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

The construction industry is an important driver for economic growth, but it is also a major contributor to global energy use and ..

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EPiC: Introducing a database of hybrid environmental flow coefficients for construction materials

RH Crawford, A Stephan, F Prideaux

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

As worldwide consumption of materials continues to rise, there is growing pressure on material, energy and water resources and an ..

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Tiny house, tiny footprint? The potential for tiny houses to reduce residential greenhouse gas emissions

RH Crawford, A Stephan

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

While considerable improvements to the energy efficiency of housing have been achieved over recent decades, the residential sector..

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Design for Dematerialisation: Examining an approach for reducing the life cycle energy requirements of residential buildings

K Skillington, RH Crawford

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

Responsible for significant energy demand and emissions, the building sector has an opportunity to contribute to global sustainabi..

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The influence of life cycle inventory approaches on the choice of structural systems to reduce the embodied greenhouse gas emissions of tall buildings

J Helal, A Stephan, RH Crawford

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

The construction of tall buildings generates a high spatial and temporal concentration of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Research..

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Greenhouse gas emissions associated with food packaging for online food delivery services in Australia

Indumathi Arunan, Robert H Crawford

Journal article  |  2020  |  Resources, Conservation and Recycling

The food service industry has seen the advent of online food delivery services (OFDS) due to the development of online retailing a..

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Quantifying Australia's life cycle greenhouse gas emissions for new homes

Monique Schmidt, Robert H Crawford, Georgia Warren-Myers

Journal article  |  2020  |  Energy and Buildings

Australia is going through a significant housing boom with approximately 200,000 new homes built each year; and significantly more..

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Integrating life-cycle GHG emissions into a building’s economic evaluation

Monique Schmidt, Robert H Crawford, Georgia Warren-Myers

Journal article  |  2020  |  Buildings and Cities

Buildings contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout their life—from material extraction and production to building d..

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The influence of structural design methods on the embodied greenhouse gas emissions of structural systems for tall buildings

James Helal, Andre Stephan, Robert H Crawford

Journal article  |  2020  |  STRUCTURES

The construction of tall buildings generates a high spatial and temporal concentration of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Research..

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Keyword Analysis

Building
Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards
Architecture
Environmentally Sustainable Construction Activities
Expanding Knowledge
Energy Efficiency
Other Built Environment and Design
Urban and Regional Planning
Environmental Management
Construction Materials Performance and Processes

News

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Home-delivered food has a huge climate cost. So which cuisine is the worst culprit?

Robert Crawford

ShutterstockOver the past few years, Australians have embraced online food delivery services such as UberEats, ..

January 18, 2021
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Investing in social housing during a pandemic

Katrina Raynor, Alan Pert, Rebecca Bentley, Robert Crawford, Ilan Wiesel

Federal and State governments have injected large sums of money into struggling communities and economies in response to COVID-19, and large..

June 10, 2020
pursuit Article
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Size does matter: Australia's addiction to big houses is blowing the energy budget

André Stephan, Robert Crawford

Australia's average house size has more than doubled since 1950. Melbourne houses image from www.shutterstock.comAustralia’s houses are..

December 13, 2016
conversation Article
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Daily commutes are draining our water reserves

André Stephan, Robert Crawford

Water use for transport is significant. Edited from Wikimedia commons, CC BY-NC-SAMelbourne’s transport uses 311 billion litres of water eac..

November 3, 2016
conversation Article
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Renters are being left out in the cold on energy savings: here's a solution

Robert Crawford, Koel Wrigley

Getting your heating upgraded in a rental can be a nightmare. Heating image from www.shutterstock.comSaving energy is a win-win. You reduce..

October 9, 2016
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Pink batts: what did it teach us about building better buildings?

Robert Crawford

A protester makes her feelings clear about the pink batts scheme in 2010. AAP Image/Alan PorrittThe political fallout over the ill-fated Hom..

February 4, 2014
conversation Article
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Why energy-saving homes often use more energy

André Stephan, Robert Crawford

New homes go up at a housing estate at Cecil Hills in western Sydney. AAP/Dean LewinsEnergy efficient houses are often thought to be a promi..

November 21, 2013
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Pink batts: not a scandal, but not as good as claimed

Robert Crawford, André Stephan

Insulation can dramatically reduce emissions, but there are emissions costs as well. Wei-Hang ChuaThe words “pink batts scheme” are rarely h..

October 30, 2012
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2021

Frank E Crowle AM LFAIB Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence
2020

Great ABP Moves Online Award (May 2020) Message of Support video for construction students

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne
2019

Best Paper Award (2019), Paper title: A comprehensive database of environmental flow coefficients for construction materials

Architectural Science Association (ASA)
2018

Best Student Paper Award (2018), Paper title: Towards an assessment framework for the environmental performance of alternative housing

Architectural Science Association (ASA)
2018

Best Student Paper Award (2018), Paper title: Beyond the ‘premium-for-height’ framework for designing structural systems for tall buildings

Architectural Science Association (ASA)
2017

Certificate of Achievement, Most cited papers of the last 10 years

Architectural Science Review
2016

Best Paper Award – Runner Up (2016), Paper title: Agile housing for an Ageing Australia

Architectural Science Association (ASA)
2016

Best Paper Award (2016), Paper title: Towards an automated approach for compiling hybrid life cycle inventories

SBE16: International High-Performance Built Environment Conference
2015

Best Student Paper Award (2015), Paper title: Overcoming the “black box” approach of Urban Metabolism (with Aristide Athanassiadis)

Architectural Science Association (ASA)
2013

MBM Research and Teaching Award

Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS)
2013

Lend Lease Professional of the Year - Finalist

Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS)
2011

Best Paper Nomination for paper titled 'Template schools: building the big picture using multi-disciplinary research', Annual Conference 2011

Australia and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA)
2011

Best Paper Nomination for paper titled 'Optimising the life cycle energy performance of residential buildings', Annual Conference 2011

Australia and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA)
2011

Best Academic Paper Award, Annual Conference 2011

Australasian Universities Building Education Association (AUBEA) Best Academic Paper Award (2011)
2009

Interdisciplinary Award for Sustainability and Environmental Writing

The University of Melbourne Office for Environmental Programs
2006

Best Paper Award, Annual Conference 2006

Australia and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA)
2005

Excellent Building Research Postgraduate Award

Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
2004

Best Paper Award, Annual Conference 2004

Australia and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA)
2004

Travel Award

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
2003

Travel Award

International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA)
2002

Vice Chancellor's Prize

Deakin University
2001

Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship

Deakin University
2001

Wal Read Memorial Award

Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society (ANZSES)
2000

Water Heater Design Competition

Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA)

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

A/Prof Construction & Environmental Assessment

Architecture, Building and Planning

Associate Member

Australian Institute of Building

Member

Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association

Education

Graduate Certificate in University Teaching

University of Melbourne

Doctor of Philosophy

Deakin University

Bachelor of Arts (Architecture) (Honours)

Deakin University

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture

Deakin University

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International Linkages

University of Sydney

Australia

University of South Australia

Australia

Bond University

Australia

University of New South Wales

Australia