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Megaprojects to Improve Public Transport from the User’ Perspective
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Globalisation and our fast-paced world have opened up new horizons all over the world. Population growth, rising energy prices and their declining nature are creating problems for transport. Road congestion, drastic increases ...
Performance Criteria Priorities in Green Buildings: A Proof-of-Concept Study
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Green Buildings (GBs) are becoming increasingly popular as an alternative to resource-intensive traditional buildings. Like any other construction project, GB projects are subject to project management-related criteria, ...
Cultural Heritage Tourism as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration: Case of the Doha Historic Center in Qatar
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Heritage and tourism have become during the last two decades dynamic areas of development in the world. The idea of heritage is crucial to the critical decision-making process as to how irreplaceable resources are to be ...
Potential Implementation of Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) in Pavement Construction in the State of Qatar
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Warm-mix asphalt (WMA) technology has been used in many countries around the world, in lieu of Hot Mixed Asphalt (HMA), due to its ability to allow significant reduction in the temperatures at which asphalt mixes are ...
A Strategic Design Approach for Implementing Rainwater Management System Using an Integration of GIS and BIM Tool
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
An increase in urbanization and uncontrolled development has resulted in a water stress situation, which necessitates the exploration of alternate water sources. Rainwater has proven to be a prominent alternate water source ...
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Civil Infrastructure and Construction (CIC 2023)
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Book)
This book contains the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Civil Infrastructure and Construction (CIC 2023), held at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar, from February 5th to 8th, 2023. Organized by Qatar ...
Frugal innovation as a source of sustainable entrepreneurship to tackle social and environmental challenges
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
Sustainable entrepreneurs have increasingly faced challenges in achieving triple-bottom-line objectives. The study portrays frugal innovation as a source to foster sustainable entrepreneurship to move the debate beyond ...
Digitalization and usage of QR-code System in Documents Management
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Multiple official documents from various departments have contributed to the rising number of printed pages in construction projects. The dominant explanation for this trend is that printed pages have a direct relationship ...
Developing Assessment Framework for Strategic Transportation Projects in Qatar
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Qatar Univesrity Press
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
This paper presents Transportation Assessment Framework and process for selecting,
defining, and naming assessment criteria to be used in transport appraisal. The approach
is based on a review of national and international ...
Sustainability in Construction: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle for a Greener Qatar
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Qatar Univesrity Press
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, an innovative Engineering Sustainability Policy (ESP) and a new Sustainable
Engineering Index (SEI) is proposed on the basis of testing results obtained within the
context of the DN16 project in the State ...