Sustainable Approaches to Environmental Design, Materials Science, and Engineering Technologies, Vol.1

1. Architectural Design, Urban Planning and Infrastructure. - Design and Evaluation of Lightened Solid Objects Through Topology Optimization and Application of Functionally Graded Voronoi Structures. - Towards a Healthy City. The Urban Image of Post-Traumatic Cities: Impact on Brain Mechanics and Inhabitants' Wellbeing. - Creating Healing Spaces: A Biophilic Framework for Designing the Physical Interior Environment of Healthcare Facilities. - Building Better Lives for Refugees: A Call for Sustainable Urban Camps. (comparative study on Al Azraq and Kutupalong refugee camps. - Nudge at the service of design for a better world: Perspectives and Challenges. - Feature Engineering for Short Term Residential Load Forecasting Using RNN-based Neural Networks. - Composition and its Contribution to the Visual Perception of the Building. - The role of green office spaces in promoting employees' cognitive functioning. - Estimation of a Household Trip-Based Generation Model for the State of Michigan. - Dockless Bike-sharing System Perceptions Across Gender in Dayton Using Unstructured Textual Data Mining Techniques. 2. Sustainable Development Goals and Practices - Assessing Main Social Sustainability Indicators in The Designs of The Three Recent Trendy 'Sustainable Cities' in UAE. - Placemaking, spatial behavior, and community interactions: Lessons on social housing and sustainability. The case of Al Ain City, UAE. - Aquaculture Sludge Treatment: Leveraging Aspergillus Niger For Protease Production Through Solid State Fermentation. - Revitalizing Waste: Sustainable Forest Biomass for Advanced Water Remediation Resources. - Impact of Organic Composition on Anaerobic Digestion: A Mini Review. - Experimental Testing of Camel Manure as a Potential Feedstock for Aerobic Composting. - Heat activation persulfate in the presence of frequency-based ultrasonic for oxidation of a bio-recalcitrant contaminant "Rhodamine B". - CO2 emissions saving potential of the novel technology for pipe production waste recycling without remelting: a case study. - Water Resource Management in Vulnerable Coastal Regions. 3. Sustainable Methodologies of Material Sciences - New Trends in Sustainable Concrete Industry Using Aggregate Replacement. - Carbonation Resistance of Concrete with Alkali-activated Fly ash and Slag Binders: A Focused Review. - Utilizing Construction and Demolition Waste as Recycled Aggregates in Sustainable Building Practices. - Flexural and Splitting Tensile Strengths of Sustainable Concrete with Natural and Recycled Air-cooled Blast Furnace Slag Aggregates. - Using Plastic PET Bottles in Concrete as Reinforcing Fibres. - UPGRADING EARTHEN MATERIALS USING LOW-TECH NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS. - Synergistic Enhancements in Additive Manufactured PolyLactic Acid Orthopedic Cortical Screws: Nano Coating Strategies and Comparative Performance Analysis. - Investigating the Effect of adding Cyanoacrylate Adhesive on Dovetail and Screw Joints in PLA- FDM 3D prints. - Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer in Circular Tubes Fitted with Twisted Tape and Rings Insert. 4. Renewable Energy, Environmental Integration and Impacts - Net Zero Emissions Buildings, Shifting the focus from energy efficient to whole life carbon emission: A review study. - Thermal Performance Enhancement of Roughened Solar Air Heater for Space Heating and Drying Agro Product. - Optimal Storage Design of Distributed Power Flow System Considering Incremental Power Load. - Optimizing the Performance of Low Concentrator Photovoltaic Cells using Response Surface Methodology. - Localization of Photovoltaic Module Defects based on Infrared images. - Irrigation water in the arid environment: current trends and future perspectives. - Evapotranspiration Model & Crop Water Requirements: Implications for Agricultural Sustainability. - Sustainable Agriculture Systems Transformed: The Role of Drones in Enhancing Precision, Safety and Efficiency.- Enhancing Hand Gesture Control Using 3DCNN-LSTM Approach.