Giulia Scagliotti

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA

I am a PhD candidate in Sustainable Design and Construction at CIFE. I am leveraging my background in construction, structural engineering, and architecture to find solutions for a more sustainable built environment. My current research focuses on building decarbonization, and industrialized construction. In particular, I am developing a Stakeholder-Collaborative Framework for Complete, Fast, and Frequent Embodied Carbon Assessments in Buildings.

My Education

Academic Publication

Journal Papers
[J1] Scagliotti, Disney, Fischer, Johansson, Roupé. Comparing Total BIM and Traditional Approaches: Implications for Embodied Carbon Assessment Workflows in Two Building Projects. Developments in the Built Environment. Under review.
[J2] Scagliotti, Alexandraki, Fischer. Where the Effort Goes in Embodied Carbon Assessments for Buildings: Decomposing Workflows Reveals the Prevalence of Data Extraction and Data Wrangling Tasks. In preparation.
[J3] Scagliotti, Alexandraki, Fischer. From Information Handover to Calculation: Building Component Property Sets for Faster and More Consistent Embodied Carbon Assessments. In preparation.

Conference Papers
[C1] Scagliotti, Alexandraki, Kirk, Fischer (2025). Between Words and Deeds: Case Studies Exploring the Rhetoric and Reality of Environmentally Sustainable Building Projects. SASBE 2025, Lille, France.
[C2] Scagliotti, Fischer (2025). Practical Challenges in Assessing Embodied Carbon and Cost Trade-offs in the Design Phase. CIB World Building Congress WBC2025, Purdue University, USA.
[C3] Scagliotti, Lessing, Fischer (2024). Insights on Sustainability in Industrialized Construction in Europe and the United States. IGLC 2024, Auckland.
[C4] Scagliotti, Miranda (2022). Effect of Spectral Shape on the Amplification of Peak Floor Acceleration Demands in Buildings. SPONSE, Stanford, CA.

Book Chapters
[B1] Scagliotti, Agrawal, Fischer (2025). AI for the Built Environment: An Opportunity to Improve Safety, Efficiency and Sustainability. Springer.
[B2] Petrus, Maric, Thomaidis, Piombo, Scagliotti, et al. (2015). Evaluation of Existing Masonry Structures Under Extreme Impacts. INSYSME.

Technical Reports
[R1] Miranda, Scagliotti, et all (2021). StEER-EERI: Petrinja, Croatia December 29, 2020, Mw 6.4 Earthquake Joint Reconnaissance Report. DesignSafe-CI.
[R2] Miranda et al.,Scagliotti (2020). StEER: Crucecitas, Mexico June 23, 2020, Mw 7.4 Earthquake. DesignSafe-CI.

Theses
[T1] Scagliotti (expected 2027). A Stakeholder-Collaborative Framework for Complete, Fast, and Frequent Embodied Carbon Assessments in Buildings. PhD Thesis, Stanford University.
[T2] Scagliotti (2022). Evaluation of the Factors Influencing the Seismic Demand on Non-Structural Elements. Engineer Thesis, Stanford University.
[T3] Scagliotti (2016). Towards a Simplified Method of Predicting Floor Spectra in Base Isolated Structures.
[R2] Scagliotti (2016). Architectural and Structural Design of a Seismically Isolated Primary School.

Posters & Extended Abstracts
[P1] Alexandraki, Scagliotti, Kam, Li, Fischer (2026). Categorizing Recurring Tasks for Faster and Consistent Embodied Carbon Assessments. Extended abstract for poster presentation.

Industry-Collaborative Research

Autodesk, Inc.
Sustainability Solutions Researcher
Summer 2025

Projects:
1) accelerating research on current and relevant sustainability policies and requirements across AECO industry using AI;
2) researching and testing Model Context Protocols (MCP) for embodied carbon workflows.

Aro Homes
Sustainability Consultant
Winter & Spring 2025

Project: developing an automated tool for Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment for a single-family wood volumetric modular house that can be used across multiple projects, considering embodied carbon and cost as tradeoffs. Detailed analysis of the embodied carbon of MEPF.

Neutral, LLC
Sustainability & Life Cycle Analysis Specialist
Summer 2024

Project: developing a Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment framework for a multi-family building product, to assess embodied carbon from the schematic design to construction document stage and be able to predict the embodied carbon of future projects.

Palari Homes, Inc.
Sustainability Consultant
Spring 2024

Project: Cradle-to-Gate Carbon Assessment for a Palari single-family house.

Veev Group, Inc.
Sustainability Consultant
Fall 2023

Project: Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment for a Veev single-family house, identification of strategies to further reduce its environmental impact, LCA comparison between Veev helical piles system and a traditional concrete foundation system.

BOKLOK
Sustainability Researcher
2022/23

Project: Flexibility in Building Design: How can we extend the life of prefabricated modular buildings?

Presentations

Invited Talks

The Stanford Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator.
Guest Lecture to a group HBCU architecture and construction professors. Presentation: Integrating Embodied Carbon into Design and Decision-Making: Practical Challenges and the Expanding Role of Architects. (August 5, 2026, Stanford University, USA).
Curso de Tecnico Especialista en Construction Industrializada.
Presentation: Industrialized Construction is always more environmentally sustainable than Traditional Construction? (June 12, 2026, Madrid, Spain).
Beyond Seismic Safety: Sustainable Retrofit Design. Seminar. Presentation: Integrating Embodied Carbon into Design and Decision-Making: Practical Challenges and the Expanding Role of Structural Engineers. (March 6, 2026, IUSS Pavia, Italy).
Building 4.0 CRC 2024 Annual Conference. Presentation: Assessing and Predicting the Carbon Footprint of Industrialized Construction projects. (September 3, 2024, Melbourne, Australia – September 5, 2024, Sydney, Australia).
Industrialized Construction Forum Stanford 2024. Presentation: Enabling Circularity with Industrialized Construction. (February 7, 2024, Stanford, United States).

Paper presentations

Smart and Sustainable Built Environment SASBE 2025.
CIB World Building Congress WBC2025.
32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction IGLC.
SPONSE Fifth International Workshop on the Seismic Performance of Non-Structural Elements.