Browsing by Author "Kucukvar, Murat"
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BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) TOWARDS FOSTERING CIRCULAR AND SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION (CIRCULAR BIM)
(06-2 , Master Thesis)The aim of this thesis is to study the circular economy (CE) model in construction, sustainability, and the utilization of building information modeling (BIM) to support decision making on building component circularity ... -
Carbon Footprint Analysis of Dairy Food Waste: Farm-To-Fork Life Cycle Based Assessment along Dairy Value Chain
(2021 , Master Thesis)Reducing the agricultural industry's carbon footprint is a severe challenge, as around a third of the produced food is wasted along the supply chain globally. Despite attempts to reduce carbon emissions from the agri-food ... -
Carbon footprint of construction industry: A global review and supply chain analysis
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper conducts a global review and a macro-level supply chain analysis focusing on carbon footprint of construction industry worldwide for the period between 2009 and 2020 using the Scopus database. A total of 1833 ... -
Circular economy application for a Green Stadium construction towards sustainable FIFA world cup Qatar 2022™
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)The construction industry is responsible for a significant amount of raw material consumption and environmental footprints. Therefore, sustainable construction became a hot topic, which strives to reduce material consumption, ... -
COVID-19: Supply Chain Disruption and Food Security – Re-Think
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DATA VISUALIZATION FOR SUPPORTING INFORMED DECISION MAKING FOR SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE FUEL BUS TECHNOLOGIES
(06-2 , Master Thesis)Compared to other transportation approaches, public transportation produces the most greenhouse gas emissions. There is a pressing need to comply with national guidelines outlined in Qatar's National Development Strategy ... -
Developing an Interactive Data Visualization Platform to Present the Adaption of Electrical Vehicles in Washington, California and New York
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Poster)This paper is an overview of using data visualization tools to provide a better insight into a large amount of data and represent the data in a visualized form. The used data is related to Electric Vehicles (EV) usage in ... -
Eco-efficiency of electric vehicles in the United States: A life cycle assessment based principal component analysis
( Elsevier , 2019 , Article)This research presents an integrated sustainability assessment framework applied to electric vehicle technologies in the United States of America. Two methods; principal component analysis and life cycle assessment are ... -
Effective Strategy Planning of Qatar Labour Market Data-Driven System Development Approach
(2020 , Master Thesis)The state of Qatar has kept its labour market as one of a critical success factors in Qatar Nation Vision 2030, which is consisting of four pillars, labour market sustainability and development is coming under the human ... -
Environmental efficiency of electric vehicles in Europe: a well-to-wheel life cycle assessment-based data envelopment analysis
(2021 , Master Thesis)The environmental problems have raised the world demand toward a rapid change in the policy-making to achieve environmental sustainability. Nowadays, the world and especially the European countries have focused the studies ... -
Expert Weighting Based Dynamic Eco-efficiency Assessment of World Consumption
(2020 , Master Thesis)Optimizing the consumption of natural resources and ensuring the availability of resources for both current and future generations has been the target for sustainability research. This paper aims to assess the ... -
How circular design can contribute to social sustainability and legacy of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™? The case of innovative shipping container stadium
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)The circular economy proposes a paradigm shift from the ‘take-make-waste’ type of economic system and aims to foster innovation, resource efficiency, and waste prevention. Mega sporting events can be considered great ... -
How Qatar’s Food System Has Impacted By Blockade? A Global Trade and Supply Chain Analysis
(2020 , Master Thesis)Due to the fact that most of the food in Qatar are imported from different countries around the world, and given the so-called GCC crisis in 2017, there is a strong need to focus on sustainability impacts of the embargo ... -
How sustainable is electric mobility? A comprehensive sustainability assessment approach for the case of Qatar
( Elsevier , 2019 , Article)Electric mobility is a trending topic around the world, and many countries are supporting electric vehicle technologies to reduce environmental impacts from transportation such as greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution ... -
HYBRID LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS SUPPLY CHAIN
(06-2 , Dissertation)Integrating sustainability into the distribution network process is a significant problem for any industry hoping to prosper or survive in today's fast-paced environment. Since gas is one of the world's most important fuel ... -
Life Cycle Air emissions and Human Health Impacts of LNG Transportation
(2020 , Master Thesis)The aim of this thesis is to study the life cycle air emissions and human health impacts of the LNG transportation, by calculating the emissions from the vessels for one trip between Qatar and destination country and ... -
Life cycle sustainability assessment of autonomous heavy-duty trucks
( Wiley , 2020 , Article)Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are emerging technologies expected to bring important environmental, social, and economic improvements in transportation systems. Given their implications in terms of air quality and ... -
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Recycled Aggregates for New Construction: The Case for Qatar
(2020 , Professional Masters Project)The purpose of this project is analyze the use of recycled waste material management for the purpose of circular economy concept, in addition to adopting the concept of life cycle assessment in order to use it for ... -
Life cycle sustainability assessment of sport utility vehicles: The case for Qatar
( Springer Verlag , 2020 , Article)Electric vehicle technologies are attractive alternatives to traditional vehicles towards achieving sustainable transportation. The adoption of these technologies has a great potential in reducing road transportation ... -
LINKING SUSTAINABILITY, RESILIENCE, AND LIVABILITY WITH SMART CITY DEVELOPMENT: BUILDING A NOVEL HYBRID DECISION SUPPORT MODEL FOR COMPOSITE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
(06-2 , Dissertation)Smartening development in cities have reinvented hopes to melt down predicaments in early 2000s'. At the embryonic stage, it is vital for cities of today to gain a more consistent understanding on how resilience, livability, ...
