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Smart Interactive Buildings [SIBs]: The use of Ambient Intelligent Systems [AMIS] to enable Smart Interactive Settlements [SISs]
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Qatar Univesrity Press
, 2021 , Conference Paper)
The 21st Century is witnessing the dawn of Industry [I4.0], or the fourth Industrial Revolution. With burgeoning technological inventions linked to smart interactive cities and intelligent buildings, where humans-machines-spaces ...
3D capture techniques for BIM enabled LCM
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Springer New York LLC
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
As a special kind of Product Life cyle Management (PLM), Building Life cycle Management (BLM) is a centric activity for facility owners and managers. This fact motivates the adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) ...
Bio-Facades; An Innovative Design Solution Towards Sustainable Architecture in Hot Arid Zones
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
The Arabian Gulf is a semi-enclosed sea with very high evaporation and low discharge rates resulting in extreme saline and thermal conditions. Additionally the system is characterized by a weak hydrodynamic flushing resulting ...
Life Cycle Assessment of Tall Buildings in Qatar, A focus on Construction Materials Use and Techniques
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Buildings represent one of the most significant sources of negative impacts to the natural ecosystems on which Qatar's inhabitants health and environmental quality depend. The market has identified Qatar as one of the ...
Medinas: From Vernacular to Smart Sustainable Cities and Buildings
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Qatar Univesrity Press
, 2021 , Conference Paper)
Cities are the most prominent agile and resilient complex systems that evolved over time and space. Many of them survived for centuries, some for more than two millennia, like the Medinas of the MENA region, and they are ...
Multimodal Transport For Smart Mobility in Emerging Cities: Case of Doha
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
A mobility focused smart city ensures an urban place that is shaped with latest innovations accentuating the overall well-being of its citizens. One of the significant aspects for assessing the Smart Mobility in an emerging ...
An Analytical Review of Attempts to Mitigate Visual Pollution in Urban Settings
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Visual pollution is the main issue rising in urban settings these days. The residents of the built environment or the surrounding communities are negatively impacted by this sort of pollution. Visual pollution reduces ...
The Challenges and Future Aspirations of Implementing Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS) in the Urban Facilities of Mega Sport Events [MSEs] in Qatar
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Sports facilities are built for a specific function and purpose. Once the demand for such purpose no longer exists, it is important to know how both the buildings and the city will adapt to the existence of such megastructures ...
Conceptual Framework for Planning Urban Roadside Vegetation to Enhance Air Quality for Roadside Users
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Vegetation is known for enhancing air quality. However, vegetation on urban roads can either increase or decrease exposure to air pollutants. The health of pedestrians and cyclists is particularly of great concern since ...
Towards Sustainable Public Open Spaces for Promoting Human Comfort, Health and Well-Being: The Case of Oxygen Park in Doha, Qatar
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Qatar Univesrity Press
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Public Open Spaces (POS) are an important and necessary component of the urban city
design. Well-designed and well-functioning public open spaces provide a variety of
social, economic, environmental, physical and psychological ...