[EN] Universities play an important role among public institutions because they initiate huge purchasing and contracting activities and contribute to sustainable development through education, research, and day-to-day ...

[EN] Green Public Procurement (GPP) is defined as a process of contracting products, services, and works with the least possible damage to the environment during their life cycle. In order to improve the knowledge about ...

[EN] Research on current practices and the state of green public procurement enables the identification of areas that can be improved, as well as opportunities to improve the tendering procedures from an environmental point ...

[EN] This paper presents an innovative and comprehensive methodology considering yearly demand variability and environmental factors in the design of pumping stations serving closed distribution systems. While a single ...

[EN] Pumping stations costs including, capital and operational costs are some of the highest costs in urban water distribution system. A proper pumping station design could be defined as the solution with the minimum life ...