Zoé Barjot

I am a PhD student at the division Sustainability Assessment and Management (SAM)  at SEED.  I work with Whole Life Carbon Assessments of buildings, focusing on maintenance and renovation practices, and investigate on the use of Life Cycle Assessment-based regulations and their practical implications. My supervisors are Tove Malmqvist (main supervisor) and Mattias Höjer. We are all part of the Seed's Sustainable Building Lab.

Tove and I have launched, with collegues at Chalmers, a new Rebygg project unded by the Swedish energy agency named Climate and resource efficient renovation with a life cycle perspective to continue investigation on renovation and maintenance practices in Sweden and their associated GHGe, in order to explore possibilities of climate governance for these practices.

The past two years, Tove and I have been also involved in the Annex 89 project of the International Energy Agency, focusing on the pathways and actions needed by various stakeholders and decision-makers to implement whole life cycle based net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from buildings in policy and practice.

The first three years of my PhD was involved in an E2B2 project funded by the Swedish energy agency named Kunskapssyntes om svenska byggnaders klimatpåverkan for which we work both with a wide range of real case building sample for new construction and renovations in Sweden. We conduct quantitative analysis, complemented with close contact with industry stakeholders.

I was involved as a PhD representative, taking part in the ABE PhD student council and the PhD chapter of THS, and am now the WOP representative!

Finally, I am a member of the PhD IMPACT initiative, which organises seminars and workshops to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment, and creating safe spaces for open dialogues about diversity and gender-related matters.