Jay Arehart

Education 

• PhD in Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder (2021)
• BS in Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder (2016)
• MS in Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder (2017)

Honors and Distinctions

• CEAE Early Career Achievement Award, 2025
• AREN Faculty Appreciation Award, 2023

Affiliations

• ASCE Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)
• ASCE Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI)

Interests

• Life cycle assessment of buildings
• Embodied carbon measurement and reduction
• Industrial ecology
• Building stock analysis
• Engineering education and service learning

Latest Publications

• Chilton, K., Arehart, J., & Hinkle, H. (2025). Evaluating Fast-Growing Fibers for Building Decarbonization with Dynamic LCA. Sustainability, 17(2), 401. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17020401
• Jay Arehart. (2025). Prestandard for Assessing the Embodied Carbon of Structural Systems for Buildings. ASCE. https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784486399
• Göswein, V., Arehart, J., Carcassi, O., Lokko, M.-L., Silvestre, J., Tsiavos, A., Pittau, F., Pomponi, F., Ben-Alon, L., Zea Escamilla, E., & Habert, G. (2026). Towards net-zero with fast-growing biobased construction materials. Sustainable & Green Materials, 2(1), 2599796. https://doi.org/10.1080/29965292.2025.2599796JH Arehart, F Pomponi, B D'Amico, WV Srubar III., 2022. Structural material demand and associated embodied carbon emissions of the United States building stock: 2020–2100.  Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 186, 106583.
• Arehart, Jay H., Hart, J., Pomponi, F., D’Amico, B., 2021. Carbon sequestration and storage in the built environment. Sustainable Production and Consumption 27, 1047–1063.
• Kate Chilton, Jay Arehart, Hal Hinkle Evaluating Fast-Growing Fibers for Building Decarbonization with Dynamic LCA