Hi, I’m Juliana, a design researcher at MIT working at the intersection of civil engineering and architecture. My research broadly focuses on circular economy in the building sector. More specifically, I focus on two resource strategies — structural reuse and building life extension. In order enable to adoption of these strategies in practice, I employ an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from concepts and methodology from: architecture, structural engineering, industrial ecology, urban data science, and construction engineering.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Journal (Peer-reviewed)
J. Berglund-Brown and J. Ochsendorf, “Material availability of End-of-Life Steel: Supply and demand assessment from demolished buildings in US Cities,” Resources, Conservation, and Recycling, in prep.
J. Berglund-Brown, I. Dobie, J. Hewitt, and J. Ochsendorf, “Lifetimes of Demolished Buildings in U.S. and European Cities,” Buildings and Cities, in proofs.
J. Berglund-Brown, and C. Zhong, “A tale of two jails: considerations of memory and justice in a circular economy,” Future Anterior, in prep.
J. Berglund-Brown, and J. Ochsendorf, “Reusing Heavy-Section Steel in Buildings: Carbon Reduction Potential and Material Availability,” Journal of Architectural Engineering, vol. 31, no. 2, p. 04025020, Jun. 2025, doi: 10.1061/JAEIED.AEENG-1918.
J. Berglund-Brown, A. Pandey, F. Duarte, R. Ganitsky, R. Kirchain, S. Zheng. Stakeholders’ perceptions of and willingness to pay for circular economy in the construction sector. npj Urban Sustainability, vol. 4, 46, Oct. 2024. doi: 10.1038/s42949-024-00182-9.
Conference (Peer-reviewed)
M. Wang-Xu, J. Berglund-Brown, B. Clifford, J. Ochsendorf. Leveling the playing field: Lifetimes of North American sports stadiums. Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia, Volume 2025, International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS).
Ramon E. Weber, J. Berglund-Brown, J. Ochsendorf, C. Reinhart, C. Mueller. “Design-Stage Carbon Reduction Pathways for Steel Structures”. Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia, Volume 2024, International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS).
J. Berglund-Brown, and J. Ochsendorf. “Designing structures from reused steel: A cost-effective carbon mitigation strategy,” Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia, Volume 2023, International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS).
D. Fang, J. Berglund-Brown, D. Iwakuni, and C. Mueller. “Carbon and Craft: Lessons from the Deconstruction, Relocation, and Reuse of a Traditional Japanese House’s Timber Structure.” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2600 (19): 192002.
J. Berglund-Brown, F. Kedir, A. Riabova, and D. Hall. “Assessing Circular Information Flow in Industrialized Construction: A Framework for Evaluating Data for Circular Construction.” IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1078, no. 1 (September 1, 2022): 012005.
Policy memos and white papers
Berglund-Brown, J. “Enabling Steel Reuse within the U.S. Construction Sector.” Policy Memorandum for the Department of Energy and Committee on Clean Steel, United States of America. April 2023.
Berglund-Brown, J. “Strategies for Managing Vacant Building Stock and Blighted Buildings in Birmingham.” Policy Memorandum for the City of Birmingham, Alabama and New Division of Sustainability and Resilience. May 2023.
Berglund-Brown, J., Srinivas, S., Pyke, C. “Relationships between the Arc Transportation Score and Location-based Accessibility Metrics.” An Arc Research White Paper. September 2020. https://arcskoru.com/sites/default/files/Arc%20Transport%20Score%201_%20Relationships_R2.pdf
Berglund-Brown, J. “Local impacts, global standards: the need for place-based considerations in transportation scoring.” Web article. October 2020.