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Mosisa Teferi Timotewos, Matthias Barjenbruch and Beshah M. Behailu
Due to the country?s expanding population, inadequate urban water management practices, limited community knowledge of water management, and urbanization, urban water management in Ethiopia is of great importance to the administration of the country. Thi...
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Bernhard Jonathan Sattler, John Friesen, Andrea Tundis and Peter F. Pelz
Current challenges, such as climate change or military conflicts, show the great importance of urban supply infrastructures. In this context, an open question is how different scenarios and crises can be studied in silico to assess the interaction betwee...
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Ashok K. Sharma, Peter Sanciolo, Amir Behroozi, Dimuth Navaratna and Shobha Muthukumaran
Integrated urban water management approaches (IUWM) are implemented to address challenges from increases in water demand as a result of population growth and the impact of climate change. IUWM aims to utilize all water resources (stormwater, wastewater, ...
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Ling-Tim Wong, Chun-San Chan, Kwok-Wai Mui and Dadi Zhang
Previous studies have demonstrated the energy- and water-saving potentials of showering facilities in residential buildings. However, the prospect of public showering places where multiple showerheads usually worked together according to their opening ho...
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Cheng Lin and Yunting Lin
Recently, metaheuristic algorithms have been recognized as applicable techniques for solving various computational complexities in energy problems. In this work, a powerful metaheuristic technique called the water cycle algorithm (WCA) is assessed for an...
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Evangelos Bellos, Panagiotis Lykas and Christos Tzivanidis
The exploitation of renewable energy sources in the building sector is a challenging aspect of achieving sustainability. The incorporation of a proper storage unit is a vital issue for managing properly renewable electricity production and so to avoid th...
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Delphine Isimbi and Jihyun Park
In this paper, the characteristics of the Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies (EDGE) green building certification system in terms of the scope of certification, and environmental and social strategies focused on 6024 units in the 17 EDGE-certif...
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Md. Rezaul Karim, B. M. Sadman Sakib, Sk. Sadman Sakib and Monzur Alam Imteaz
Despite numerous studies on residential rainwater tank, studies on commercial rainwater tank are scarce. Corporate authorities pay little heed on this sustainable feature. With the aim of encouraging corporate authorities, this study presents the feasibi...
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Seyyed Danial Nazemi, Mohsen A. Jafari and Esmat Zaidan
The impact of load growth on electricity peak demand is becoming a vital concern for utilities. To prevent the need to build new power plants or upgrade transmission lines, power companies are trying to design new demand response programs. These programs...
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Keyu Bao, Rushikesh Padsala, Daniela Thrän and Bastian Schröter
Humans? activities in urban areas put a strain on local water resources. This paper introduces a method to accurately simulate the stress urban water demand in Germany puts on local resources on a single-building level, and scalable to regional levels wi...
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