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Ammonia, recognized as a promising clean energy source, plays a significant role in advancing sustainable development. This paper detailly investigates the multifaceted aspects of ammonia, encompassing its background, synthesis methods, storage, transportation, and diverse applications. A comparative analysis is presented, contrasting the conventional Haber process of ammonia synthesis with innovative methods utilizing clean energy. The green ammonia synthesis process, currently gaining prominence, is highlighted for its potential to significantly reduce carbon emissions. The efficacy of various catalysts in green ammonia synthesis is also examined, revealing the superiority of low-displacement catalysts. Furthermore, the paper explores ammonia's extensive applications in the energy sector, from its role in fuel cells, which can be supplied directly or post-catalytic decomposition, to its utility as engine fuel, either in pure form or in combination with other fuels. The study also underscores ammonia's potential as an auxiliary hydrogen carrier, enhancing the safety and efficiency of hydrogen storage and transportation. By offering insights into ammonia's synthesis processes and its multifarious applications, this research contributes to the discourse on new energy paradigms, emphasizing the benefits of transitioning from traditional energy sources to cleaner, more efficient alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A lot of electrical and mechanical energy is wasted in the public toilets of government and private institutes, universities, and offices, in which exhaust fans run continuously during the daytime, throughout the year in India. Not only, a huge cost is involved just to exhaust foul air, but also, put on adverse effects on the environment. This event creates an undue burden on ecology and the economy. This study uncovers a solution to this research gap in the paper "Solar-assisted eco-innovation induces eco-ventilation." The system is an eco-friendly technology in which the eco-innovation system of heliostats focuses solar radiation on a hollow hot air bulb, creating a pressure difference to ensure air exchange, remove foul air, and enhance ventilation. Instead of depending on an electrical or mechanical exhaust system, this eco-innovation can be a business model that saves working costs as well as the environment, ensuring economical and ecological sustainability and also contributing to the development process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concepts of Sustainability and Sustainable Development are increasingly becoming part of the common discourse in society. The need for mobility of people and goods, among other factors, is an inherent part of economic growth and development of society. There exists the need to balance the economic requirements of mobility, with the environmental demands of sustainability. This review paper examines the existing literature on sustainability, in the context of its three pillars, across different journals and industry reports. Further, this study performed a bibliometric analysis on the concept of sustainable mobility and the emerging role of EVs. Methodology. Systematic literature review was conducted by sourcing research articles from peer-reviewed journals and industry reports. NVIVO software was used to identify, analyze and shortlist relevant articles. The selected articles were classified under two different themes for further review. Findings. The findings of this review highlight the difference in interpretations of sustainability and sustainable mobility among existing theoretical and empirical studies, and the need to have common approaches, theories and measurements. The adoption of sustainable behavior and sustainable mobility is a result of personal behavior, moderated by policy influences. Balancing the needs of economic growth with environmental and social sustainability creates tensions between these pillars. Innovation and emerging technological initiatives like Circular Economy for recycling and repurposing EVs, will help mitigate the challenges faced in sustainable mobility initiatives. Implications. Conscious sustainable behavior is the need of the hour, and the desired way forward for society. Peer pressure to adopt sustainable mobility practices, along with user convenience will result in sustainable intention and behavior. Managers can tap opportunities in designing bundled sustainable mobility products and services, that are affordable and meet customer expectations. A commonly acceptable, empirically proven and scalable model of defining or measuring sustainability is required from the theoretical perspective. Originality. The study focuses on the aspects of sustainable mobility in relation to the three dimensions of sustainability, which makes it unique. A model to study the dimensions of sustainable mobility and their relative impact on sustainability has been proposed. Emerging literature on life-cycle sustainability of EVs like Circular Economy and technology have been studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainability has been a significant concern in development and construction upon the rising environmental issues around the globe. As such, efforts have been made to come up with sustainable construction via the invention of sustainable housing. The sustainable concept is extended to housing as demand for sustainability development for energy saving. However, high prices of houses have been denoted as an issue in the housing industry. As conventional development is already associated with high costs and high prices, houses with sustainable features are offered and sold at even higher prices. This worsens affordability, which is already a problem in Malaysia. This paper explores sustainable affordable housing via a combination review of issues and challenges. This investigation sets to accomplish two objectives. Firstly, it includes studying issues concerning sustainable affordable housing. The second objective covers a detailed identifying the challenges of implementing sustainable affordable housing and gaps of this area of study around the globe. This paper structurally investigates the literature from valid databases and eminent journals from 2004 to 2018 in matters related to issues and challenges sustainable affordable housing. As very limited work has been carried out in the areas of issues and challenges of implementing sustainable affordable housing, this paper fills this knowledge gap in the context of a structured review. The findings of the research are critically discussed in light of the literature. In conclusion, the commitment of an organization or construction industry and the government will lead to actions that will accelerate the move towards sustainable development of the housing sector, especially affordable housing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is aimed to review the strategic position for sustainability of the Bulgarian transport system and the related opportunities for sustainable organizational development. Organizational sustainability is a critical concern for the Bulgarian transport sector, which can be determined as unbalanced given the high relative shares of the work performed and energy consumption by the road transport. The efforts of several governments to design and implement competitive strategies and practices, and leverage management vision and leadership follow the European direction of sustainable development, aiming to lead to a positive cumulative effect on a globalscale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the energy road map for a solar PV project in SRM IST NCR Campus so that the increasing energy demand of the institution is shifted from the grid provided energy to renewable energy source to-be installed in the campus. Since the dependency on conventional power source is very high in the institution and the demands increase as new laboratories workshops and departments are set up it is only time that the institution partakes its responsibility of reducing its carbon footprint, reducing the effect of global warming in the already existing huge industrial area around it making Ghaziabad the second most polluted city in the world, enhance and set an example for sustainable technology development in the area. To achieve this, RETScreen Expert programming is utilized to determine the technical, financial, and natural maintainability of introducing a solar-powered photovoltaic system around there. Several monetary boundaries and climate information from NASA were used for the appraisal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building sustainability assessment (BSA) is perceived as one of the major pillars of sustainable development, its adoption is increasing and many governments are embracing them. However, in order to meet the requirements of these processes, complicated tasks which consume considerable amounts of resources are involved. On the other hand, BIM has been acknowledged as a key solution to industry issues and a leading driver for innovation. However, the utilization of BIM to support BSA is still at a premature stage compared to other BIM applications. This paper aims to review relevant literature to determine the research trends within the field and identify the possible reasons behind the slow and reluctant development of this synergy. A three-step systematic literature review approach is adopted. First, literature was surveyed to identify all published Green-BIM studies within the past ten years. Second, identified publications are filtered according to pre-defined criteria to select the most-relevant. The last step involves the analysis of the filtered articles and the categorisation of the findings. The review has indicated a significant research tendency towards the area of Green BIM. However, it was apparent that BIM has yet to be properly aligned with BSA practices. A range of challenges facing the BIM-based BSA process has been identified and classified into three-major classes: BIM-related, BSA-related and Organisation-related [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainable development has become a big issue in almost all research fields. In water resources system management, if the system is able to satisfy the changing water demand without any system shortage, then sustainability is achieved. In fact, water resources system management is operated under complete uncertainty, with no real possibility to look into the future to predict natural condition, policy, or demand. Due to the increasing problem of scarce water resources, this encourages researchers and experts to manage water resources much more effectively, ensuring all important challenges are resolve and to maintain water resources to guarantee to meet the demand under any condition. This paper discusses the evolution of sustainable development and reviews issues regarding concept, definition, and approach to sustainable development for both research and its application to water resources system management, especially pertaining to water demand fulfillment. The paper describes state of the art simulation and optimization techniques in water resources system management, reviews the growth of simulation and optimization techniques in an effort to establish a sustainable system, frames the progress of such techniques applied to water resources system, and identifies the needs for further development to face the future challenges. This study reviews published articles from 2000 to 2017 in more than 50 peer-reviewed journals, regarding the application of simulation and optimization techniques in water resources system management in relation to sustainable water demand fulfillment by system management. The study showed that water management requires both researchers and practitioners to optimize the limited water availability in fulfillment of the increasing demand for water. Simulation and optimization are promising solutions, and as they are powered by the advancement of computer technology, they have become central to the evolution of these techniques in their application to the sustainable development of water resources system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Facility managers can have a major influence on the sustainability agenda through operational and strategic management functions during the post construction phase. Sustainable practices in facility management can bring substantial benefits such as reducing energy consumption and waste, while increasing productivity, financial return and corporate standing in the community. Facility manager should be empowered with the necessary knowledge and capabilities at the forefront in facing sustainability challenge. Despite the potential, facility management practices have yet to embed sustainability ideas holistically. The lack of capabilities and skills and the existing knowledge gaps are believed to be among the barriers. Capabilities are vital to foster the competency of an organisation. To support sustainable practices, facility managers need to be empowered with the necessary knowledge, capabilities and skills. This paper aims to develop a guidelines for strategic capabilities to support sustainability in facility management practice. Starting with a total of 10 critical strategic capabilities factors identified from previous questionnaire survey, the authors conducted an interview with 7 experts in facility management to assess the perceived importance of these factors. The findings reveal a set of guidelines for the enhancement of strategic capabilities among facility managers by providing what can be done to acquire these factors and how it can support the application of sustainability in their practice. The findings of this paper are expected to form the basis of a mechanism framework developed to equip facility managers with the right knowledge, to continue education and training and to develop new mind-sets to enhance the implementation of sustainability measures in FM practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Economic sustainability is an integral aspect of sustainability, meaning that humans utilise, protect and conserve human- and material-based services in order to create renewable long-term assets by an optimal utilisation, recycle and recovery. Building investments and running costs are fiscal metrics utilised in economic sustainability indices. Capital costs are accumulated expenditures when the process starts. Capital expenditures rely largely on the type and process of treating waste water. Usually, these costs involve planning, construction, equipment and facilities, electrification, induction, training, start-up, substitute components, cost of reservations, etc. This paper explores some of the instruments for calculating economic sustainability. That include exposure analysis (SA), particulate matter analysis (PCA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Economic sustainability is an integral aspect of sustainability, meaning that humans utilise, protect and conserve human- and material-based services in order to create renewable long-term assets by an optimal utilisation, recycle and recovery. Building investments and running costs are fiscal metrics utilised in economic sustainability indices. Capital costs are accumulated expenditures when the process starts. Capital expenditures rely largely on the type and process of treating waste water. Usually, these costs involve planning, construction, equipment and facilities, electrification, induction, training, start-up, substitute components, cost of reservations, etc. This paper explores some of the instruments for calculating economic sustainability. That include exposure analysis (SA), particulate matter analysis (PCA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alkali activated aluminosilicates present a promising way for future advances in materials engineering towards environmental sustainability. In this paper, the mechanical, thermal and hygric properties of aluminosilicates designed using waste brick powder from insulation blocks are investigate. The applied waste material is alkali activated by the mixture of sodium hydroxide and sodium silicate with the silicate modulus ranging from 0.8 to 0.4. The obtained results reveal a significant influence of increased silicate modulus on the properties of analyzed aluminosilicates. The more dense and compact material structure observed for higher silicate moduli leads to an improvement of mechanical properties of designed material. The thermal and hygric properties are found to be influenced by the occurrence of cracks in the material structure. The experimental results indicate a good potential of alkali aluminosilicates for design of new building materials in terms of sustainable development principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]