Patricia Kio
Assistant Professor | University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, UNITED STATES
Patricia Kio's expertise includes architectural design, circular economy, life cycle analyses, and industrial symbiosis.
Biography
Patricia Kio teaches sustainable solutions in the built environment, circular economy, the economics of sustainability, and life cycle analysis. Her research focuses on the architectural reuse of solid non-hazardous industrial byproducts as secondary materials for infrastructure in the built environment.
Areas of Expertise (3)
Circular Economy
Sustainability
Architecture
Media Appearances (1)
Activating Industrial Symbiosis in the Circular Economy
COA Natural Built Virtual Research Symposium tv
2020-09-09
Patricia Kio, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Architecture, presents a three-phased research study. Section 1 discusses industrial material by-products and more creative investigative methods are needed to report their impacts on the environment.
Articles (3)
Circularity: a workflow for reusing waste wind turbine blades
Built Environment Project and Asset ManagementPatricia Njideka Kio, Chimay Anumba
2024-06-11
Wind energy has developed rapidly becoming a promising source of renewable energy. Although wind energy is described as clean energy, the problem of blade disposal has emerged from decommissioned wind turbines in the renewable energy sector, these blades manufactured from composite materials are almost impossible to recycle.
Circular Economy Trends – Potential Role of Emerging Technologies
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental SciencePatricia N. Kio, et. al
2022-12-07
The circular economy and digital transformation are two of the major trends over the last decade. Integrative methodological advances such as life cycle assessments, material flow analysis, and input-output tables are some of the current trends in circular economy case studies and scenarios. However, more efficient processes are required, and methods need to be adapted to the unique attributes of circular economy systems.
In situ experimental evaluation of a novel modular living wall system for industrial symbiosis
Energy and BuildingsPatricia N. Kio, Ahmed K. Ali
2021-12-01
In this interdisciplinary study between academia and the industry, large and consistent volumes of predictably sized waste prompt sheet metals obtained from standard stamping and blanking processes at the automotive industry during production of automobile bodies were used to design and fabricate planters in a custom-designed modular living wall system (MLWS) which was installed as a retrofit on an existing building façade.
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