Devi Bühler

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Research Associate
Project leader

www.zhaw.ch/iunr/oekotechnologie

Expertise and research interests

- Circular economy in the building and housing sector
- Zero Emission Buildings
- Integrated building design
- Greywater treatment and reuse
- Biological wastewater treatment
- Decentralised water management
- International development cooperation
- User behaviour and socio-economic aspects of ecological engineering

Educational background

Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in Bioscience Engineering: Environmental Sciences and Technology (since 2020, Ghent University)
Master of Science ZFH in Natural Resource Science (2018, ZHAW)
Bachelor of Science ZFH in Environmental Engineering (2013, ZHAW)

Membership of networks

• Swiss Young Academy
• COST Action CA17133, Implementing nature based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city
• IEES International Ecological Engineering Society
• Swiss Association for Building Biology
• Swiss Water Partnership

Projects

• Wasser-Kreisläufe schliessen bei Haussanierung / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Evaluations-Methoden zum Monitoring der Qualität von häuslichem Recycling- bzw. Grauwasser / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Open Mind and Closed Cycles / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Casa Circolo - Direktrecycling von Grauwasser am Beispiel KREIS-Haus / Project leader / Project completed
• Leben im KREIS-Haus / Project leader / Project completed
• Ecological Engineering Living Lab / Project leader / Project completed
• LaundReCycle South Africa / Project leader / Project completed
• Local Water Loop / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Bühler, Devi; Antenen, Nadine; Frei, Matthias; Koller, Christoph; Rousseau, Diederik P. L.; Schönborn, Andreas; Junge, Ranka,

  2021.

  Towards water and energy self-sufficiency : a closed-loop, solar-driven, low-tech laundry pilot facility (LaundReCycle) for the reuse of laundry wastewater.

  Circular Economy and Sustainability.

  1(3), pp. 1037-1051.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-021-00077-2

• Dale, Glenn; Dotro, Gabriela; Srivastava, Puneet; Austin, David; Hutchinson, Stacy; Head, Peter; Goonetilleke, Ashanta; Stefanakis, Alexandros; Junge, Ranka; Fernandez, José A.; Weyer, Vanessa; Truter, Wayne; Bühler, Devi; Bennett, John; Liu, Hongbo; Li, Zifu; Du, Jianqiang; Schneider, Petra; Hack, Jochen; Schönborn, Andreas,

  2021.

  Education in ecological engineering : a need whose time has come.

  Circular Economy and Sustainability.

  1(1), pp. 333-373.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-021-00067-4

• Langergraber, Guenter; Pucher, Bernhard; Simperler, Lena; Kisser, Johannes; Katsou, Evina; Bühler, Devi; Mateo, Mari Carmen Garcia; Atanasova, Nataša,

  2020.

  Implementing nature-based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city.

  Blue-Green Systems.

  2(1), pp. 173-185.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.933

• Katsou, Evina; Nika, Chrysanthi-Elisabeth; Bühler, Devi; Marić, Bruno; Megyesi, Boldizsár; Mino, Eric; Babí Almenar, Javier; Bas, Bilge; Bećirović, Dženan; Bokal, Sabina; Đolić, Maja; Elginöz, Nilay; Kalnis, Gregoris; Mateo, Mari-Carmen Garcia; Milousi, Maria; Mousavi, Alireza; Rinčić, Iva; Rizzo, Agatino; Rodriguez-Roda, Ignasi; Rugani, Benedetto; Šalaševičienė, Alvija; Sari, Ramazan; Stanchev, Peyo; Topuz, Emel; Atanasova, Natasa,

  2020.

  Transformation tools enabling the implementation of nature-based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city.

  Blue-Green Systems.

  2(1), pp. 186-211.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.929

• Bühler, Devi; Junge, Ranka,

  2016.

  Global trends and current status of commercial urban rooftop farming.

  Sustainability.

  8(11), pp. 1108.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su8111108

• Bühler, Devi; Schamoni, Wilfriede Renate,

  2023.

  Energieeffizientes Bauen und Sanieren.

  Augsburg:

  WEKA MEDIA GmbH & Co.

  ISBN 978-3-8111-5115-4.

• Bühler, Devi; Schuetze, Thorsten; Junge, Ranka,

  2015.

  Towards development of a label for zero emission buildings : a tool to evaluate potential zero emission buildings [paper].

  In:

  Rosen, Marc A., ed.,

  Special Issue "Towards Sustainability: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Sustainability Forum (2014)".

  The 4th World Sustainability Forum, Electronic Conference at sciforum.net/conference/wsf-4, 1-30 November 2014.

  MDPI.

  pp. 5071-5093.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su7055071

• Bühler, Devi; Junge, Ranka; Schütze, Thorsten,

  2014.

  Towards development of a label for zero emission buildings : a tool to evaluate potential zero emission buildings [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 4th world sustainability forum.

  The 4th World Sustainability Forum, Electronic Conference at sciforum.net/conference/wsf-4, 1-30 November 2014.

  MDPI.

  Sciforum Electronic Conference Series ; 4.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/wsf-4-a001

• Bühler, Devi; Barmettler, Regina,

  2023.

  LaundReCycle : a water- and energy self-sufficient laundromat.

  Wädenswil:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28581

• Bühler, Devi; Lüthi, Laila; Jenny, Annette,

  2023.

  KREIS-Haus : Schlussbericht Projektphase 2021 - 2022.

  Wädenswil:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27805

• Bühler, Devi,

  2023.

  Grossmarkt Grossstadt.

  Modulør.

  16(1), pp. 34-39.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27263

• Bühler, Devi,

  2022.

  Ecological Engineering Living Lab.

  TRANSFER Special.

  2022(2), pp. 9.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25948

• Bühler, Devi,

  2022.

  Ökotechnologie Living Lab.

  TRANSFER Spezial.

  2022(2), pp. 9.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25947

• Bühler, Devi,

  2022.

  Baubranche : wieso die Klimasünderin umdenken muss.

  higgs.

  Available from: https://www.higgs.ch/baubranche-wieso-die-klimasuenderin-umdenken-muss/50357/

• Bühler, Devi,

  2022.

  Design challenge - Sight Unseen: Depicting Climate Change in the Light of Human Rights.

  Swiss Young Academy.

  Available from: https://swissyoungacademy.ch/en/laufende-projekte/projekt-1/design-challenge/

• Bühler, Devi; Schönborn, Andreas,

  2021.

  Das KREIS-Haus : die grosse Kreislaufvision im Miniformat.

  Transfer.

  2021(2), pp. 12.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24755

• Bühler, Devi,

  2020.

  Urban Mining und Urban Farming im Haus der Zukunft.

  Baubiologie.

  Available from: https://www.baubio.ch/artikel-beitrage/urban-mining-und-urban-farming-im-haus-der-zukunft

• Bühler, Devi; Antenen, Nadine,

  2020.

  Waschen für die Wissenschaft.

  IUNR Magazin.

  2020(1), pp. 14-15.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-19919

• Bühler, Devi; Junge, Ranka,

  2018.

  Ein Technologiekonzept für multi-funktionale Fassaden.

  Wädenswil:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27655

• Bühler, Devi; Antenen, Nadine; Frei, Matthias; Koller, Christoph; Junge, Ranka,

  2020.

  Towards water and energy self-sufficiency : a closed-loop, low-tech laundry pilot facility (LaundReCycle) for the reuse of laundry wastewater.

  In:

  Closed Cycles and the Circular Society : The Power of Ecological Engineering, Online, 2-4 September 2020.

  Available from: https://closedcycles2020.ch

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