• Leadership and collaboration in project management education: A case study 

      MAZZETTO, SILVIA ( 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. ...
    • Proposed cooling wall system: A lesson from nature 

      Ferwati, M. Salim; Ghani, Saud ( ISEC Press , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      The study commences with a comparative analysis between desert adapted cactus plants and traditional mud houses. Primary comparative results yielded three main similarities: 1) Effective utilization of self-shading surfaces; ...
    • Strength, shrinkage, and permeability performance of seawater concrete 

      Younis, Adel; Ebead, Usama; Suraneni, Prannoy; Nanni, Antonio ( ISEC Press , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Given the increasing global concern of freshwater scarcity, the use of seawater in concrete mixtures appears to be a way forward towards achieving sustainable concrete, especially in the case of non-reinforced concrete ...
    • Strengthening of RC beams using near surface embedded-FRCM 

      Ebead, Usama A; El-Sherif, Hossameldin ( ISEC Press , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Fibre reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) systems are mostly externally bonded (EB) for the strengthening of reinforced concrete (RC) and masonry structures. In this paper, the relatively new concept of near-surface ...