Kemi Adeyeye

University of Bath | UB · Department Architecture and Civil Engineering

The sustainable development goals define four priority areas for water security and gender equity: minimising the time and distance burden on women and girls for fetching water, addressing sexual harassment, gender-based violence and psychosocial stress due to unsafe water and sanitation facilities, reducing water marginality so that women can be a...

Millions are living in shelters around the world, often for decades. Architects are rarely trained in shelter design and as a result speculative designs are frequently impractical or insensitive to occupants. In addition, aid agency staff can lack engineering or architectural knowledge, so need support during shelter procurement. Evidence gathered...

This study explores the use of smart home performance monitoring systems to deliver reliable and consistent building performance data. Accurate data is essential for the continuous improvement of building regulations and housing quality so that citizens can better cope with volatile energy prices, weather extremes and climate change. While previous...

The objective of the study is to explore and assess the potential of Nature based Solutions (NbS) to mitigate the peak discharge rate in Banas River catchment, India. Dynamic modelling using the HEC-HMS modelling system to simulate the peak discharge rate of runoff was conducted. A systematic literature review was conducted to assess how NbS could...

Smart technologies are useful for performance monitoring i.e. to gather real-life evidence to address the design-performance gap, reduce emissions, optimise energy use, address energy inequalities, empower and engage citizens. Smart home performance monitoring therefore has wider connotations of societal utility. However, current technology adoptio...

The decarbonization of UK homes is an essential aspect of the government's net zero ambitions. However, two challenges need to be addressed: (1) the design-performance gap of new homes, (2) the lagging performance of existing homes. Both require an effective environment that promotes a data-driven building performance monitoring (BPM) approach for...

Smart home technologies provide a ready opportunity to address the housing design or retrofit-performance gap and to improve the building regulations. It is currently used to manage comfort, security, and resource efficiency but, adoption remains piecemeal, and disparate. This study aims to explore how householder perceptions of housing quality, an...

Urbanization today is a global process that "shrinks" and "densifies" urban areas, whilst significantly and chaotically expanding cities. As a result, many problems arise, including the reduction or destruction of green spaces. This study proposes the systematization of urban landscapes at the global, macro, local, and micro levels to improve the s...

Micro hydropower (MHP) provides a viable renewable energy solution from which indi- viduals, organisations and communities can also derive social value and benefits. Desk studies and literature reviews show limited studies that (a) quantify the social impact of MHPs in water networks and (b), establish evaluation methods for such analysis. To date,...

Circular economy (CE) for water aims to maximise value derived from water, processes, and practices. As a result, the recovery of wastewater and renewable water resources is used to offset the exploitation and impact of abstracting new water resources. New regulations such as the new circular economy action plan by the European Commission are emerg...

In an increasingly uncertain world, water is constant and central to most things: the economy, energy, transport, agriculture, health, leisure, well-being, social and cultural life. The 7th Water Efficiency (WATEF) Conference 2022 was, for the first time, held outside Europe in the Caribbean, at the Faculty of Engineering, The University of the Wes...

Debate about participatory design (PD) has focussed considerably upon process. Factors such as facilitation skills and commitment to a participatory ethos have been highlighted as factors mediating stakeholder engagement. Discussion has been driven overwhelmingly by experience of PD in the global North with citizens who enjoy full rights. This arti...

Nowadays, in the management of water distribution networks (WDNs), particular attention is paid to digital transition and the improvement of the energy efficiency of these systems. New technologies have been developed in the recent years and their implementation can be crucial to achieve a sustainable level of water networks, namely, in water and e...

Debate about participatory design (PD) has focussed considerably upon process. Factors such as facilitation skills and commitment to a participatory ethos have been highlighted as factors mediating stakeholder engagement. Discussion has been driven overwhelmingly by experience of PD in the global North with citizens who enjoy full rights. This arti...

Free convective heat transfer in the closed gap between concentric semi-hemispheres is quantified by means of a numerical approach based on the volume control method using the SIMPLE algorithm. The average Nusselt number is determined for several configurations obtained by varying the cavity’s aspect ratio between 0.15 and 1.5, while the Rayleigh n...

This paper employed a socio-technical approach to assess the feasibility of solar PV installations by independent Group Water Schemes in Ireland, examining the complex relationship between water and energy demands in conjunction with stakeholder perspectives in these communities. The temporal resolution of energy data and the unique characteristics...

Thermal state of a conical antenna used for big data transfer was determined in this work. Its cooling is provided through porous media saturated with water-based copper nanofluid (NF) whose volume fraction varies in the 0% (pure water) [Formula: see text] range. Otherwise, the ratio between the thermal conductivity of the highly porous material an...

Most renewable energy (RE) studies focus on technology readiness, environmental benefits and/or cost savings. The market permeation, viability and adoption of RE technologies such as micro hydropower (MHP), however, require the alignment of other interrelated factors, such as the socio-technical, institutional and political dimensions. This is part...

The growing displacement crisis leaves many housed in simple shelters, which are bespoke to each setting, often sited in harsh climates and normally unconditioned. Measurements have shown that the thermal environment within the shelters can be life-threatening. Hence aid agencies are interested in improving these conditions. Unfortunately, given th...

Space syntax has been widely used in studies with historical components to developing a common analytical language for the comparative study of urban morphology across time and space by visual diagrams. This paper uses space syntax to analyse the inner and outer city parts of the daily life of residents in the capital cities of two dynasties, Tang...

Studies have shown micro-hydropower (MHP) opportunities for energy recovery and CO2 reductions in the water sector. This paper conducts a large-scale assessment of this potential using a dataset amassed across six EU countries (Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Spain, and Portugal) for the drinking water, irrigation, and wastewater sector...

Shelters provided by humanitarian agencies or self-built are often of lightweight design, offering little resistance to wind loading. This implies the need to offer anchoring support, often in situations where mass cannot be supplied as the primary resistance mechanism. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that most humanitarian agencies will be able to u...

Shelters provided by humanitarian agencies or self-built are often of lightweight design, offering little resistance to wind loading. This implies the need to offer anchoring support, often in situations where mass cannot be supplied as the primary resistance mechanism. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that most humanitarian agencies will be able to u...

This is is a tool called ShelTherm, it can help you predict the summer and winter temperatures inside a shelter anywhere in the world. It will also help you identify what design changes might lead to better indoor conditions.

Assessment tools such as BREEAM and LEED are widely used to assess tangible and physical indicators of building performance at the micro to mesoscale. However, the built environment represents both intangible and tangible set of indicators that should be understood within its context. Therefore, this project proposes a prototype Eco-cultural design...

Current and future smart cities are moving towards the zero-net energy use concept. To this end, the built environment should also be designed for efficient energy use and play a significant role in the production of such energy. At present, this is achieved by focusing on energy demand in buildings and to the renewable trade-off related to smart p...

Environmental hydraulics research includes the different domains of hydrodynamics, such as the investigation and implementation of the physical and experimental applications, and research into the quantity, quality, modelling and simulation of the attributes associated with flowing water. This topic is studied both from a technical and environmenta...

Energy and climate change are thoroughly linked since fossil energy generation highly affects the environment, and climate change influences the renewable energy generation capacity. Hence, this study gives a new contribution to the energy generation in water infrastructures by means of an inline pumped-storage hydro (IPSH) solution. The selection...

Water supply in an increasing number of rural and peri-urban communities can be described as marginal i.e. subject to failure, becoming unaffordable or increasingly difficult to access. A range of common factors contribute to water marginalisation or access bias. Firstly, communities may be poorly served by formal water infrastructure by being on t...

Vernacular architecture serves as inspiration and learning material to create more impactful and meaningful contemporary building solutions. However, most research in this area focuses on the technical aspects of sustainability. There remains a gap in the sociocultural aspects of both contemporary and vernacular architecture. A coherent understandi...

The optimal and sustainable management of water distribution systems still represent an arduous task. In many instances, especially in aging water net-works, pressure management is imperative for reducing breakages and leakages. Therefore, optimal District Metered Areas represent an effective solution to decreasing the overall energy input without...

Shelters for the displaced can suffer from socio-cultural incompatibility and significant levels of occupant dissatisfaction. Participatory design (PD) is known to help reduce such issues. This is the first study to investigate the effectiveness of different PD methods at engaging and capturing users’ needs for shelter design in refugee camps. It a...

This experimental work shows that the natural convective heat transfer in the active enclosure of a conventional Trombe wall assembly is enhanced by the interposition of transparent and vertical partitions. Quantification of the average Nusselt number corresponding to both versions with and without partitions was carried out by means of a 1/5 scale...

Studies show that user behaviours have not necessarily changed, despite the prevalence of water-efficient products in the market. One reason is because the technical emphasis for delivering the water use efficiency of products has focused on reducing the flow rate. Therefore, this study was undertaken to examine the physical parameters that define...

Water distribution systems (WDSs) today are expected to continuously provide clean water while meeting users demand, and pressure requirements. To accomplish these targets is not an easy task due to extreme weather events, operative accidents and intentional attacks; as well as the progressive deterioration of the WDS assets. Therefore, water utili...

The sustainability of the built environment requires the integration of social, policy, institutional, technical/engineering, environmental, financial approaches. Studies have shown that there is no single magic wand for ensuring that the footprint and use of buildings have the least physical and environmental impact. This chapter’s focus includes...

This chapter introduces the main themes in the book, contextualising them in terms of current issues of sustainability, in terms of infrastructure, buildings, businesses and behaviours. The role of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is discussed; they are integral to the achievement of sustainable water engineering principles...

Solutions towards sustainable water engineering and management issues have been the focus of most chapters in this book, underpinned by established and innovative knowledge, plus insights of good practices in the natural and built environments. Acknowledging that water engineering is not straightforward, the chapters in this book have demonstrated...

The need to conserve and preserve historical buildings and environments is prevalent in architectural discourse. On the other hand, changes in human habits, preferences, use as well as the contemporary approach to spatial planning and developments places new demands on the built environment. There is therefore the need for a new approach to the arc...

Extenics refers to an auxiliary method used to find strategies for complex and contradictory problems. It has been applied in many fields such as architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning, and has also been gradually applied to the renewal and transformation of traditional villages. This paper explains the basic theories of the extens...

Good drainage contributes to the delivery of sustainable, innovative and resilient buildings, and is essential for our health and wellbeing. However, designers and architects can often leave drainage to be implemented by specialists in isolation of other design considerations, resulting in costly changes, rework and repairs, operational discomfort...

The Circular Economy (CE) is a well-established sustainability framework within the industry and business contexts, with strong advocates such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. It is designed to be restorative and regenerative, and through a continuous cycle aims to keep products, components, and materials at their highest utility and value at all...

This paper presents a novel methodology to automatically split a water distribution system (WDS) into self-adapting district metered areas (DMAs) of different size. Complex networks theory is used to propose a novel multiscale network layout made by landmark and key nodes for the water supply plus the hyper-links representing the connection between...

An Analysis of the Embodied Energy and Embodied Carbon of Refugee Shelters Worldwide. The delivery of health, food, and shelter to the 68.5 million people displaced worldwide represents a significant challenge. Camps can house hundreds of thousands of people, and the provision of shelter on such a scale uses considerable amounts of energy and const...

This paper aims to critically review recent research on the integration of sustainability, vernacularism, and regionalism. It has become necessary to better understand regional architecture and the integration of complex and sensitive aspects of both the natural environment and human-cultural context as situated within the built environment. This s...

Six months after non-household (nHH) wholesale/retail separation ('market opening') came into force (1 st April 2017), have any improvements been made in service innovation for customers in the water sector in England? This paper will offer an answer to this question based on recent work facilitated by the Watef Service Innovation Technical Committ...

The water user embodies different physical, social and psychological factors, which in turn inform their water behaviours and the extent to which they engage with solutions aimed at water efficiency. Therefore, products designed to be resource efficient, such as the showerhead, needs to consider the affordances of user interactions and experience i...

Water efficient products such as showerheads provide a useful means to manage and deliver water use efficiency. They are now prevalent in the market, however there remains gaps in the understanding of these products in terms of user interaction and use and the extent of how these affects user perception, and experience. These unknowns still exist s...

The EU funded Interreg project REDAWN is presented, setting a new operational framework for efficiently foster micro-hydropower in water distribution.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to investigate the flood impact on a detached dwelling based on physical attributes related to the positioning, form and orientation of the house, and second, to investigate the effectiveness of property-level protection (PLP) to mitigate the direct structural damage of the house and the degree...

The overall goal of the present study was to evaluate and compare the existence of genotoxic damage in Rattus norvegicus captured in sites with different levels of chemical mixtures along the Matanza-Riachuelo river basin (MRRB). For this, thirty-six wild rats (R. norvegicus) were captured from six different sites in the MRRB. Capture sites were ch...

Recovering heat from waste water discharged from showers to preheat the incoming cold water has been promoted as a cost-effective, energy-efficient, and low-carbon design option which has been included in the UK’s Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) for demonstrating compliance with the Building Regulation for dwellings. Incentivized by its carbon...

A cubical electronic component held in a hemispherical cavity is cooled through a saturated ZnO-H2O nanofluid porous medium. According to the intended application, the base of the cavity could be either horizontal with dome facing upwards or vertical. The power generated by the device during its operation leads to high Rayleigh number ranging betwe...

The population of people living in temporary settlements after disasters is in the millions and the average stay in these settlements exceeds a decade. Available temporary shelters solutions follow either a top down or bottom up system. This paper sets out to analyse the benefits and deficiencies of both systems, highlighting their limitations. The...

There has been an increase in the propensity for natural disasters with significant consequences such as loss of homes, life, welfare and livelihood. The period of recovery for those affected can vary significantly depending on context; physical, political and economic. The architectural approach for providing shelter also varies especially when co...

Despite significant progress for the adoption of BIM in AEC, currently its adoption for FM has been sparse, scarce, and extraneous. There are few cases in the world where robust adoption has taken place that are able to demonstrate success and are willing to disseminate the positive impact of BIM FM on sustainability, operational efficiency, and co...

This study examines the thermal behavior of a hemispherical electronic component subjected to a natural nanofluidic convective flow. During its operation, this active dome generates a high power, leading to Rayleigh number values reaching 4.56×109 . It is contained in a hemispherical enclosure and the space between the dome and the cupola is filled...

Environmental change and natural events can impact on multiple dimensions of human life; economic, social, political, physical (built) and natural (ecosystems) environments. Water distribution networks cover both the built and natural realms and are as such inherently vulnerable to accidental or deliberate physical, natural, chemical, or biological...

Flooding is increasingly global challenge due to climate change and urban development practices. It can also be devastating to those affected. In the United Kingdom, it is projected that the number of people at high risk of flooding could rise from 1.5 to 3.5 million by 2080. Currently 400,000 homes and 75,000 businesses in England have an annual c...

Purpose To determine and consolidate the multi-scale components that informs anticipatory action for resilience; propose a conceptual framework for the collaborative and holistic design, delivery and management of resilience at both the macro and micro scale; test the efficacy of the framework to deliver sustainable (sustained) resilience. Design...

The junction temperature of the quad flat no-lead with 16 and 32 leads (QFN16 and QFN32) electronic packages subjected to free convection is highly affected by their encapsulating resin's thermal conductivity. This study considers a variation of this conductivity between −80% and +100% of the average value measured on an industrial prototype by mea...

The performance and reliability of electronic components and assemblies strongly depend on their thermal state. The knowledge of the temperature distribution throughout the assembly is therefore an essential element to ensure their correct operation. This is the main objective of this work that examines the case of a conventional assembly equipped...

There has been a rapid urbanization in china at the expense of agricultural and rural development. Consequently, before 2010 the traditional villages were dying off at the speed of 100 per day. To save the precious culture heritage and avoid the unbalanced development in urban and rural areas, the better approach is to make such villages more livea...

Water is essential for human life and activity. Bunn states: we live on a blue planet and, although much of the water is in the oceans, it can be argued that there is abundant freshwater to sustain human society: some 93,000 km 3 is in lakes and rivers alone and much more is stored in groundwater or as ice. However, freshwater is not distributed un...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the details of the air mass flow and aerodynamical phenomena across a channel containing a large vertical axis wind turbine. The considered model reproduces as closely as possible the real assembly of the Sistan-type wind-mill whose top is open. The technical results of this work could be used for th...

The Demystifying the Shower Experience research project is a comprehensive multi-stage study aimed at understanding the multi-dimensional aspects of the shower, including; showering products, habits, behaviour and perceptions. The objective was to determine: if a functionality mismatch occurs between the design and desired functionality of the prod...

Flooding incidences are increasingly prevalent due to climate change, weather variability, building and land use practices. One of the regions to experience recent wide-spread flooding is located in the South West region in England. This region remains prone to flooding since the significant flooding of the Somerset levels during the 2014 storms. B...

Aims: Changes in water law and policy, in the UK and further afield, are promoting social and service innovation, as well as technical innovation in the water sector. In particular, the separation of wholesale and retail water and sewerage services for English and Welsh commercial water systems customers is leading to a focus on service innovation....

Both historic and recent natural events continue to reveal weaknesses in the capacity and capability of buildings to respond and cope with natural events such as flooding. The subject of this paper is both topical and significant because the prevailing approach continues to overlook this fundamental factor for resilience, in favour of larger scale...

A manufactured aeration and nanofiltration MBR greywater system was tested during continuous operation at the University of Reading, to demonstrate reliability in delivery of high-quality treated greywater. Its treatment performance was evaluated against British Standard criteria [BSI (Greywater Systems—Part 1 Code of Practice: BS8525-1:2010. BS Pr...

Aims: The aim of the project on which this paper is based is broadly to demystify the performance criteria that inform the user’s expectation of ‘a good shower’ experience. The objectives are to begin to define and empirically quantity the conditions and range of acceptability of water efficient shower-heads using physical and socio-psychological f...

Many areas in the UK show considerable water stress. The South East of England is one of these areas, and the current roll out of water meters provides the opportunity to measure water consumption in many properties. Where residents are not paying for their actual water usage, other means to promote water conservation behaviour becomes necessary. P...