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Light Rail Transit (LRT) and Transit Villages in Qatar: A Planning-Strategy to Revitalize the Built Environment of Doha
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Henry Stewart Publications
, 2017 , Article)
For the past several decades, the car has been the most popular method for travelling within cities, small towns and rural areas. This has caused increasing traffic congestion, which in turn has become a drain to the economy ...
Experimental study on effective placement of PCM packets in cooling vest to improve performance in warm environment
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
Global warming has increased the risk of heat stress of outdoor workers and one measure against heat stress is wearing passive personal cooling clothing. Passive body cooling systems, including phase change material (PCM) ...
Hierarchy based information requirements for sustainable operations of buildings in Qatar
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Information flows in construction projects are generally focused on the needs of the design and construction phases. This creates disruption of workflows across the project stages and in particular with the information ...
Structural topology optimization considering complexity
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
As topology optimization is a free-form approach to optimizing structural layout, it has a tendency to design structures that are topologically complex. In large-scale structures, this complexity drives construction costs ...
Improving comfort and productivity of workers at moderate activity and hot environment by means of a PCM cooling vest
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American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, ASHRAE
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
The effect of using a phase change material (PCM) cooling vest by a worker performing moderate activity in a hot environment is studied through the use of a validated integrated fabric-PCM and bio-heat model. The integrated ...
Leadership and collaboration in project management education: A case study
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ISEC Press
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
This paper discusses about the importance of practical experience and multidisciplinary collaboration in project management success and the apparent lack of emphasis placed on this within the context of university education. ...
Experimental study on using PCMs of different melting temperatures in one cooling vest to reduce its weight and improve comfort
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
This study aims at evaluating experimentally phase change material (PCM) cooling vest performance when incorporating two types of PCM with different melting temperatures with varied PCM placement on the lower, upper, front ...
The legacies of Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics: an evaluation of the Adler Olympic Park
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
The study investigates the legacies of the 2014 Winter Olympics, and, in particular, it focuses on the evaluation of the new public open spaces created after their stage and their sustainability outcomes. Indeed, Sochi was ...
Mega-events and urban planning: Doha as a case study
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
Hosting mega-events can not only catalyse urban development, but also lead to an improvement of local planning systems and building planning capacity. Events can create knowledge transfer from one city to another, and be ...
Study on adaptive thermal comfort in Japanese offices under various operation modes
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
This research focuses on determining thermal comfort and analysing adaptive opportunities in Japanese office buildings under various operation modes including free running (FR) mode. There are very limited studies on office ...