PROGRAM
Days: Monday, April 28th Tuesday, April 29th Wednesday, April 30th
Monday, April 28th
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09:00-09:30 Session OS: Opening Session
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Prof. Pantelis Sklias, Rector of the Neapolis University Pafos
Location: Akamas B
09:30-10:30 Session KS1: Keynote Session1
Chair:
Ed Smeets (Edmadi BV, Netherlands)
Location: Akamas B
09:30 | Infrastructure in Flux: Building a Resilient and Circular Water Future |
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
Foyer of Conference Center
10:30-11:00 Session PS: Poster Session
Location: Foyer
Enhancing Water Management through Performance Monitoring: A Case Study of Yarmouk Water Company (abstract) PRESENTER: Mohammad Al-Shloul |
Water Resources Management in Jordan valley Authority (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session LESAM S1: Integrated Asset Management (1)
Chair:
Rita Brito (LNEC, Portugal)
Location: Akamas B
11:00 | Integrated Asset Management – An Effective Way of Increasing Service Reliability and Overall Business Performance for Service Providers (abstract) PRESENTER: Petros Kolovopoulos |
11:20 | Improving the resilience of water supply systems through asset and system level assessments (abstract) |
11:40 | Main Aspects of the New Methodology for Evaluating the Assets of “Sofiyska Voda” Ad, Part of Veolia Bulgaria (abstract) PRESENTER: Vasil Trenev |
12:00 | Advancing Sewer Asset Management with Data-Driven Solutions (abstract) PRESENTER: Lukas Guericke |
12:20 | How can Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM) support EU water operators in implementing the Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive? (abstract) PRESENTER: Rita Ugarelli |
12:40 | Exploring strategic asset management of water infrastructure through grounded theory of sensemaking – a Swedish case study (abstract) PRESENTER: Martin Bjarke |
11:00-13:00 Session WESF S1: Water Economics PartA
Chair:
Matthias Freiburghaus (SVGW, Switzerland)
Location: Akamas C
11:00 | 10 Years of Reform in the Romanian Water and Wastewater Sector (abstract) PRESENTER: Teodor Popa |
11:20 | Saving water, one drop at a time: exploring the determinants of consumer behavior and intentions (abstract) PRESENTER: Paulo Ramisio |
11:40 | Determinants of Water Affordability in Portugal (abstract) PRESENTER: Micaela Antunes |
12:00 | Circular economy and sewage sludge management: Assessment the biomethane production under an economic, environmental and social point of view (abstract) PRESENTER: Francesc Hernandez-Sancho |
12:20 | Exploratory analysis of willingness-to-pay determinants for water quality and continuity (abstract) PRESENTER: Rita Martins |
12:40 | Economic regulation in the water and wastewater sector in Romania (abstract) PRESENTER: Iulia Titoiu |
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Session LESAM S2: Integrated Asset Management (2) / Asset Management of Blue-Green-Infrastructure
Chair:
Zeyad Shawagfeh (GIZ Jordan, Jordan)
Location: Akamas B
14:00 | Evaluating the Impact of Real Time Control of Pressure on Leakage Reduction in a Real Water Distribution Network (abstract) PRESENTER: Camillo Bosco |
14:20 | Hydraulic Analysis of 3400 mm. Transmission Tunnel Maintenance: A Case Study of MWA, Thailand (abstract) PRESENTER: Nichakul Chunsawang |
14:40 | Interactions between urban water services and natural areas for asset management and resilience assessment (abstract) PRESENTER: Rita Brito |
15:00 | Assessment the impact of water ecosystems renaturalization: A quantitative analysis of the benefits generated (abstract) PRESENTER: Lledo Castellet Viciano |
15:20 | Leveraging synergies between asset management of stormwater systems and natural areas to increase resilience to climate change (abstract) PRESENTER: Rita Brito |
15:40 | Towards targeted maintenance of green infrastructure: proxy data paves the way (abstract) PRESENTER: Mahdi Bahrami |
14:00-16:00 Session WESF S2: Water Governance, Regulation and Institutional Frameworks
Chair:
Jörg Rehberg (BDEW German Association of Energy and Water Industries, Germany)
Location: Akamas C
14:00 | CSRD Sustainability Reporting in the Water Sector / Subtitle: Join Us to Explore the Path to Sustainability in the German Water Sector (abstract) |
14:20 | An Adaptative Regulation Model in a Heterogeneous Context (abstract) PRESENTER: Joao Cabrita |
14:40 | Benchmarking: an essential tool for utilities and stakeholders to improve water services (abstract) PRESENTER: Peter Dane |
15:00 | Overview of the Utilities Performance Monitoring Unit in Jordan's water sector (abstract) |
15:20 | Equity in water payments in Portugal over two decades (abstract) PRESENTER: Carlota Quintal |
15:40 | Intermediation for Water Management-Technology Transfer in Rural Industries: An Institutional Perspective from a Developing Country (abstract) PRESENTER: Eleni Anastasopoulou |
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Session LESAM S3: What can we learn from other infrastructures?
Chair:
Petros Kolovopoulos (Hydro-Comp Enterprises Ltd, Greece)
Location: Akamas B
16:30 | Ancient Hydraulic Engineering and Urban Development: Insights from the Roman Aqueduct of Gortyna in Crete (abstract) PRESENTER: Iosif Kapellakis |
16:50 | An AHP Asset Management Modelling Framework for International Tourist Airports: Integrating Water and Infrastructure Sustainability (abstract) PRESENTER: Dimitrios Dimitriou |
17:10 | Evaluation of Asset Management Performance for Ports: The Case of Corfu Port in the Mediterranean (abstract) PRESENTER: Dimitrios Dimitriou |
16:30-18:30 Session WESF S3: Water Statistics & Data Collection Methods
Chair:
Lígia Pinto (iBMS, University of Minho, Portugal)
Location: Akamas C
16:30 | Advanced Data Collection Solution for Addressing Water Scarcity: Miyauna’s Role in Sustainable Management (abstract) |
16:50 | Quantifying Model Uncertainty in Water Demand Time Series (abstract) PRESENTER: Bernhard Jonathan Sattler |
17:10 | Lessons from Economic Sustainability of Urban Water Services in Portugal (abstract) |
17:30 | Exploration of hidden aspects of water crisis in social media opinion-based data (abstract) PRESENTER: Konstantinos Tsagarakis |
17:50 | Diagnosis of residential water consumption in different tariff structures (abstract) PRESENTER: Andreza Kalbusch |
19:30-22:30Gala Dinner
Tuesday, April 29th
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09:00-10:00 Session KS2: Keynote Session2-Round Table 2
Chairs:
Iosif Kapellakis (Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus)
Lígia Pinto (iBMS, University of Minho, Portugal)
Herve Vicente (Northumbrian Water Group, UK)
Lígia Pinto (iBMS, University of Minho, Portugal)
Herve Vicente (Northumbrian Water Group, UK)
Location: Akamas B
09:00 | Water Management Evolution: Balancing Economics, Innovation and Community Needs towards a Sustainable Future (abstract) |
10:00-10:30 Session EP: Elevator Pitch
Chair:
Maria Bakatsaki (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Location: Akamas B
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Session LESAM S4: Data and AI in Asset Management
Chair:
Adrian Uhlenbroch (STEIN Infrastructure Management GmbH, Germany)
Location: Akamas B
11:00 | Integrating Physical Inspections and AI-Enhanced Data Analysis for Improved Asset Management and Strategic Decision-Making: A Case Study of ETRA SpA Water Utility in Northern Italy (abstract) PRESENTER: Pierre Bonardet |
11:20 | Analysis of the impact of AI on sewer assessment results towards an AI-data-resilient sewer assessment (abstract) PRESENTER: Adrian Uhlenbroch |
11:40 | Reducing Asset Maintenance Burden with GIS: Value-Based Approach to Hydrant Layout Optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Gints Dakša |
12:00 | Infrastructure Inspection using Unmanned Surface Vessel (abstract) PRESENTER: Takayuki Sawai |
12:20 | Artificial Intelligence Models for Prioritizing Active Leak Detection Activities - The Case of a Water Utility in Southeast Asia (abstract) PRESENTER: Andre Marques Arsenio |
12:40 | Strategic planning towards a water-smart society: Insights from B-WaterSmart and the Bodø case study (abstract) PRESENTER: Camillo Bosco |
11:00-13:00 Session WESF S4: Water Economics PartB
Chair:
Lledo Castellet Viciano (University of Valencia, Spain)
Location: Akamas C
11:00 | Economic Impact of Water Reuse Projects on Sustainable Development Goals (abstract) PRESENTER: Lledo Castellet-Viciano |
11:20 | 20 years of WASH Project Financing in Latin America and the Caribbean (abstract) PRESENTER: Inês Freire Machete |
11:40 | Saving water in households: a literature review on behavioural interventions in recent years. (abstract) PRESENTER: Lígia Pinto |
12:00 | Consumers perspectives on the value of water and water services (abstract) PRESENTER: Lígia Pinto |
12:20 | The influence of national water infrastructure on the happiness index: Economic and Social Analysis, case of Morocco (abstract) PRESENTER: Ayman Banouar |
12:40 | Is the Moldavian Water Sector Sustainable? (abstract) PRESENTER: Augustin Boer |
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:40 Session LESAM S5: Changes in global context and trends
Chair:
Didier Sinapah (VEOLIA, France)
Location: Akamas B
14:00 | Transforming Asset Management Strategy with Multicriteria approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Cláudia Costa |
14:20 | Success Story for Managing Strategic Assets in Arid Regions, Disi Jordan (abstract) |
14:40 | Vulnerability of Walloon drinking water consumers to droughts and willingness to pay to mitigate their consequences (abstract) PRESENTER: Bénédicte Rulleau |
15:00 | Wastewater Management in desert climate: Qatar Example (abstract) PRESENTER: Aisha Al-Kubaisi |
15:20 | Water demand forecasting based on changes in social conditions (abstract) PRESENTER: Sena Hasegawa |
14:00-18:00 Session RTEOAL: Roundtable of Limassol District Local Government Organisation
Location: Akamas C
14:00-16:00 Session WESF S5: Water Resources Management
Chair:
Adam Saffian (AIR Selangor Malaysia, Malaysia)
Location: Akamas C
14:00 | Resistomap Water Biosecurity Platform: A Solution for Managing Antimicrobial Resistance and Pathogen Pollution (abstract) PRESENTER: Windi Muziasari |
14:20 | Analysis of the water use in the concrete production sector of eastern Limassol area (abstract) PRESENTER: Ioannis Tsountas |
14:40 | Spatial variation in willingness-to-pay for wastewater system modifications: The Mille-Îles River as a case study (abstract) PRESENTER: Maxence Collado |
15:00 | Developing Three SOPs to Improve Wellfield Management in Jordan (abstract) |
15:20 | Tackling the PFAS Challenge in the Water Sector (abstract) |
15:40 | The Cost of Water and Wastewater Inefficiencies (abstract) PRESENTER: Joao Cabrita |
Wednesday, April 30th
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09:00-10:00 Session KS3: Keynote Session3-Round Table 3
Chairs:
Teodor Popa (Compania Apa Brasov, Romania)
Oliver Nachevski (Engineers without Border Macedonia, Macedonia)
Rita Brito (LNEC, Portugal)
Oliver Nachevski (Engineers without Border Macedonia, Macedonia)
Rita Brito (LNEC, Portugal)
Location: Akamas B
09:00 | A growing field: Urban drainage asset management – from grey to green (abstract) |
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-13:30 Session LESAM S6: Best Practice in Asset Management
Chair:
Takayuki Sawai (NJS Co., Ltd., Japan)
Location: Akamas B
11:30 | Best Practices in Wastewater Asset Management: The Case of Qatar (abstract) PRESENTER: Talal Al-Sulaiti |
11:50 | Asset Management of Industrial Water Treatment Processes: Enhancing Resilience and Adaptability with Mobile Solutions (abstract) PRESENTER: Antonin Mommay |
12:10 | Why are water networks insufficiently rehabilitated on a systematic basis? Evidence from the Portuguese experience (abstract) |
12:30 | The Technical Sustainable Management (TSM) system (abstract) PRESENTER: Hind Al Shdaifat |
12:50 | Development and Application of the Asset Management System(K-AMS) to Determine the Optimal Time to Replace Old Water Supply Facilities (abstract) PRESENTER: Hyeongki Lee |
13:10 | Retrospective Analysis and Insights from Asset Management Studies on Water Networks in SUEZ Water France (abstract) PRESENTER: Mehdi Ahmadi |
11:30-13:30 Session LESAM S7: Sewers Asset Management
Chair:
Nicolas Caradot (Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin, Germany)
Location: Akamas C
11:30 | Inspection strategies as a sewer management plan for a German city (abstract) PRESENTER: Nathalie Rodriguez |
11:50 | Sewerage Report Analysis for Report-Based Failure Prediction in Pipes (abstract) PRESENTER: Barak Fishbain |
12:10 | Risk-based prioritization of inspection and rehabilitation of large sewers (abstract) PRESENTER: Catarina Jorge |
12:30 | Acoustic signals for anomaly and structural features detection in sewer pipes (abstract) PRESENTER: Suneeta Kakati |
12:50 | Modelling Pipe Deterioration or Defect Evolution? (abstract) PRESENTER: Lukas Guericke |
13:10 | Inflows into wastewater systems and the water-energy-greenhouse gases emissions nexus: opportunities and challenges for asset management (abstract) PRESENTER: Catarina Jorge |
11:30-13:30 Session WESF S6: Water Utility Management
Chair:
Thomas Herkner (Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e.V.(BDEW), Germany)
Location: Akamas C
11:30 | Analysis of the energy profile of Limassol District Local Government Organisation and steps towards a more sustainable future (abstract) PRESENTER: Gregoris Panayiotou |
11:50 | Risk Management integrated in Asset Management through ISO 55001 implementation (abstract) |
12:10 | Aqaba Water Company as a Utility of Future (abstract) |
12:30 | GIS-Based Solutions for Water Utilities Online (abstract) |
12:50 | Impact of Quality Management Systems on Customer Service Performance: Evidence from Portuguese Retail Water Utilities (abstract) PRESENTER: Ana Filipa Novais |
13:10 | Valuing water supply infrastructure: A comparative study using augmented Real-Options vs discounted cash Flow methods. Case of Casablanca desalination plant. (abstract) PRESENTER: Mustapha Hajji |
13:30-14:30Lunch Break
14:30-15:30 Session LESAM S8: Case studies and success stories
Chair:
Rita Ugarelli (SINTEF, Norway)
Location: Akamas B
14:30 | Improving the Asset Management of Urban Water Systems: A Framework for Condition Assessment of Vertical Assets in Portuguese Water Utilities (abstract) PRESENTER: Alice Ganhão |
14:50 | A framework aiming to optimize water utility’s investment planning (abstract) |
15:10 | Prioritization of network renovation projects - case study (abstract) |
14:30-15:30 Session WESF S7: Water Supply and Tariff
Chair:
Francesc Hernandez-Sancho (University of Valencia, Spain)
Location: Akamas C
15:30-16:30 Session CS: Awarding Ceremony and Closing Session
Chair:
Helena Alegre (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC), Portugal)
Location: Akamas B