INCREaSE 2025: Proceedings of the 4th INternational CongRess on Engineering and Sustainability in the XXI cEntury (Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology)

This book includes the proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Engineering and Sustainability in the XXI Century, INCREaSE 2025.INCREaSE is a congress with the aim to bring together valuable and novel scientific contributions that address the critical issues of renewable energy, sustainable building, sustainable manufacturing, sustainable food production, and other sustainability science and engineering topics that have an impact in this diverse and fast-changing research area, both in academia and industry. This 4th edition of INCREaSE was held during July 1-4, 2025, in Faro, Portugal, organized by the Institute of Engineering and hosted by the University of Algarve. The areas to be covered are:Big data and data analytics applied to sustainability. Climate change and mitigation, carbon reduction. Combined heat and power and district heating systems. Control and optimization of renewable energy systems. Energy and environmental assessment in buildings and cities. Food loss and