For a complete list of publications, check Google Scholar.
CRUZ RIOS, F. (2026). Resilience in Building Life Cycle Assessment: A Critical Review and Framework for Time-Integrated Functionality. Journal of Industrial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44498-026-00152-7
Rajbhandari, M., CRUZ RIOS, F., Singh, K., Montalto, F., Payab, A. H., & Carneiro Marques, A. (2026). Understanding the impacts of decentralized circular water strategies for combined sewer overflow and urban flooding. Urban Climate, 67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2026.102887
CRUZ RIOS, F., El Asmar, M., Grau, D., & Parrish, K. (2026). Institutional Failures and Missed Opportunities: Insights from Engineering Administrators on Native Faculty Hiring. Frontiers in Higher Education 2026, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1677398
Keles, C., CRUZ RIOS, F., Hoque, S. (2025). Digital Technologies and Circular Economy in the Construction Sector: A Review of Lifecycle Applications, Integrations, Potential, and Limitations. Buildings, 15(4), 553. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15040553
Marzani, G., Tondelli, S., Kuma, Y., CRUZ RIOS, F., Hu, Rongbo, Bock, T. (2025). Embedding Circular Economy in the Construction Sector Policy Framework: Experiences from EU, US, and Japan for Better Future Cities. Smart Cities, 8(2), 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities8020048
Temizel-Sekeyran, S., CRUZ RIOS, F., Geremicca, F., & Bilec, M. (2023). Circular Design and Embodied Carbon in Living Buildings: The Missing Potential. Journal of Architectural Engineering, 29(3), 04023013-1. https://doi.org/10.1061/JAEIED.AEENG-1445
CRUZ RIOS, F., Al Sultan, S., Chong, W.K., and Parrish, K. (2023). Empowering Owner-Operators of Small and Medium Commercial Buildings to Identify Energy Retrofit Opportunities. Energies, 16(17), 6191. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16176191
CRUZ RIOS, F., Panic, S., Grau, D., Khanna, V., & Bilec, M. (2022). Exploring circular economies in the built environment from a complex systems perspective: A systematic review and conceptual model at the city scale. Sustainable Cities and Society, 103411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103411
Babbitt, C., Athaf, S., Graedel, T., CRUZ RIOS, F., & Bilec, M. (2021). The role of design in circular economy solutions for critical materials. One Earth (Cell Press), 4(3), 353–362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.02.014
CRUZ RIOS, F., Grau, D., & Bilec, M. (2021). Barriers and Enablers to Circular Building Design in the U.S.: An Empirical Study. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 147(10), 04021117. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0002109
Grau, D., CRUZ RIOS, F., and Sherman, R. (2021). Project Validation: A Set-Based and Concurrent Design Approach to Inform Owner’s Authorization Decision on Complex Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 147(10), 04021132. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0002152
Berry, B., Farber, B., Chakraborty, S., Haedicke, M., Lowden, S., CRUZ RIOS, F., Bilec, M., & Isenhour, C. (2021). Just by Design? Exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in U.S. circular economy discourse. Local Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1994535
CRUZ RIOS, F., Naganathan, H., Tello, L., Adams, S., Cook-Davis, A., El Asmar, M., Grau, D., & Parrish, K. (2020). Catalysts and Barriers Faced by Native American Engineering Undergraduate Students in Arizona. Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 147(2). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EI.2643-9115.0000033
CRUZ RIOS, F., Grau, D., & Chong, W. K. (2019). Reusing exterior wall framing systems: A cradle-to-cradle comparative life cycle assessment. Waste Management, 94, 120–135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2019.05.040
CRUZ RIOS, F., Chong, W. K., & Grau, D. (2017). The need for detailed gender-specific occupational safety analysis. Journal of Safety Research, 62, 53–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2017.06.002
CRUZ RIOS, F., Naganathan, H., Chong, O., Lee, S., & Alves, A. (2017). Analyzing the Impact of Outside Temperature on Energy Consumption and Production Patterns in High-Performance Research Buildings in Arizona. Journal of Architectural Engineering, 23(3), C4017002. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)AE.1943-5568.0000242
Conference Presentations
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Cruz Rios, F. (2026, June 16–18). From exposure to mastery: A curricular roadmap for integrating sustainability and climate resilience in engineering education at Drexel University [Oral presentation]. 33rd International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technologies (ISSST), Rochester, NY, United States.
Kigula, L., Kirabo, P., Rajbhandari, M., Singh, K., Carneiro Marques, A., Montalto, F., Payab, A. H., & Cruz Rios, F. (2026, June 16–18). Integrating circular water strategies with urban flood modeling and life cycle assessment to support climate-resilient combined sewer systems [Oral presentation]. 33rd International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technologies (ISSST), Rochester, NY, United States.
Bahmanyar, M., & Cruz Rios, F. (2026, June 16–18). Circularity metrics in practice: Data limitations and design implications for façade systems [Oral presentation]. 33rd International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technologies (ISSST), Rochester, NY, United States.
Keles, C., & Cruz Rios, F. (2026, June 16–18). Scalable building-level façade material composition and WWR mapping using Google Street View and dual-paradigm computer vision [Oral presentation]. 33rd International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technologies (ISSST), Rochester, NY, United States.
Keles, C., Shen, Y., Feng, L. & Cruz Rios, F. (2026, June 28 – July 3). Supervised and Zero-Shot Façade Material and WWR Mapping for Urban Building Stocks using street view imagery [Poster presentation]. Orienting Toward Century-Scale Sustainability, Gordon Research Conference, Newry, Maine, United States.
Keles. C. & Cruz Rios, F. (2024) Framework for Post-Demolition Material Flow Analysis in Urban Residential Buildings. Presentation, ASCE Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) conference, April 13-16. Kansas City, Missouri.
Cruz Rios, F., Berry, B., Isenhour, C. Haedicke, M., & Bilec. M. (2024). Just by Design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse. Presentation, International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), June 18-20, 2024. Baltimore, Maryland.
Keles, C., Hoque, S., & Cruz Rios, F. (2024). How can digital technologies enable circular economy in the construction industry? A review of lifecycle applications, integrations, potential, and limitations. Presentation, International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), June 18-20, 2024. Baltimore, Maryland.
Keles, C., Hoque, S., & Cruz Rios, F. (2024). Digital Circular Environment: State-Of-Art Approaches for Enabling Digital Circularity in the Building Environment – An Emerging Framework. Presentation, 2024 Industrial Ecology (Gordon Research Conference), May 25-30, 2024. Vaud, Switzerland.
Cruz Rios, F. (2021). Enabling the Circular Economy in the Built Environment: The Role of Policymakers. Presentation, Congressional Briefing Series: Reduce and Reuse – How to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Building Materials, Plastics, and Food, organized by the Environmental and Energy Studies Institute (EESI), December 8, 2021 (held virtual).
Cruz Rios, F., Grau, D., & Bilec, M.M. (2021). Barriers and Enablers to Circular Building Design in the U.S.: An Empirical Study. Presentation, International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), June 21-24, 2021 (held virtual).
Cruz Rios, F., & Bilec, M.M. (2021). Circular Urban Systems: Circular Economy in the Built Environment from a Systems Perspective. Poster, International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), June 21-24, 2021 (held virtual).
Cruz Rios, F. (2021). From the trenches: Convergence research in practice as told by a postdoc. Part of the “Convergence in Action” panel organized by Gemma Jiang, Linda Molnar, Fernanda Cruz Rios, and Melissa Bilec. 12th Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference, June 7-11, 2021 (held virtual).
Cruz Rios, F., Berry, B., Isenhour, C., Zappitelli, J., Khanna, V., & Bilec, M.M. (2021). Why bother? Environmental and social implications of using durable building products. Presentation, Product Lifetime and the Environment (PLATE) Conference, May 26-28, 2021 (held virtual).
Cruz Rios, F., Bilec, M.M., Gardner, H., Khanna, V., Theis, T. (2021). Circular Design and Embodied Carbon in Living Buildings: A Case Study. Presentation, ASCE Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) Conference, April 7-9, 2021 (held virtual).
Bilec, M.M., & Cruz Rios, F., (2020). Converging on Circular Economy Solutions for the Built Environment. Keynote presented by Dr. Melissa Bilec at the International Congress on Sustainability Science & Engineering, August 3-5, 2020, Denver, Colorado (held virtual).
Cruz Rios, F., & Grau, D. (2020). Design for Disassembly: An analysis of the practice (or lack thereof) in the United States. Presentation, Construction Research Congress 2020, organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers, March 8 – 10, 2020, Tempe, Arizona.
Cruz Rios, F., El Asmar, M., Grau, D., & Parrish, K. (2020). Hiring Native American Faculty in Engineering and Construction: Challenges from an Institutional Perspective. Presentation, Construction Research Congress 2020, organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers, March 8 – 10, 2020, Tempe, Arizona.