Dr Rodney Stewart

Dr Rodney Stewart is a Project Leader for the South-east Queensland (SEQ) Residential End Use Study.  His research expertise includes water demand management, smart water metering technologies, rainwater tank performance, water infrastructure planning, urban water end use consumption and water-energy and nexus issues.

Current Research Interests
Water conservation policy
Remote smart water metering and monitoring of residential household end uses

Performance of internally plumbed rainwater tank supplied end uses and energy intensity
Verifying sustainable diversified water supply systems
End use water consumption flow patterns and pattern matching
Leakage detection, analysis and rectification practices and policies
Performance of dual reticulated recycled water distribution systems

Future research interests
Hot water end uses and energy intensity of modern heating systems
Automated end use analysis
Water consumption time of use tariffs
Real time peak demand analysis