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Strengthening of RC beams using near surface embedded-FRCM
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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 ...
Emergency Response in Complex Buildings: Automated Selection of Safest and Balanced Routes
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Blackwell Publishing Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
The extreme importance of emergency response in complex buildings during natural and human-induced disasters has been widely acknowledged. In particular, there is a need for efficient algorithms for finding safest evacuation ...
Street re-design for the adoption of autonomous vehicles: case of the city of Doha, Qatar
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Emerald Publishing
, 2023 , Article)
Purpose: There is lack of knowledge about how the existing streets need to be redesigned and the infrastructural changes that need to be made to adopt autonomous vehicles. The purpose of this study is to investigate the ...
Technical review of green roofs in hot arid region: Case of Qatar
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2021 , Article)
Greening the city and its buildings is not a new notion, in fact it is an old-traditional system that is re-discovered to improve damaged impact on the urban environment in a smart-sustainable way. Greening has its roots ...
The Museum of Islamic Art: Form, perception, and environment
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Common Ground Research Networks
, 2013 , Article)
Islamic Arab societies have a distinctive but culturally common system of beliefs, attitudes, and values that over time have formed traditional expression. These traditions have been articulated through art, architecture, ...
A treatment wetland park assessment model for evaluating urban ecosystem stability using analytical hierarchy process (AHP)
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Dorma Journals
, 2019 , Article)
The increased impervious and built-up urban areas threat ecosystem stability through major environmental problems, such as surface runoff, flooding, and wildlife habitat resource depletion. Hence, urban ecologists and ...
'Excavating' pruitt-igoe using space syntax
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Cambridge University Press
, 2021 , Article Review)
Pruitt-Igoe, in St Louis, Missouri, United States, was one of the most notorious social housing projects of the twentieth century. Charles Jencks argued opening his book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, ‘Modern ...
Natural ventilation by windcatcher (Badgir): A review on the impacts of geometry, microclimate and macroclimate
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article Review)
The significant energy use and increasing requirement for good indoor environment quality in the built environment have led to a renewed interest in natural ventilation strategies such as windcatchers. Windcatcher is a ...
The design and applications of an innovative irrigation system for biofacades in hot arid climates
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2022 , Article)
Assessment of water requirements through physical sustainable means is essential to ensuring water security, which is at high risk in desert climates such as Doha, Qatar. The water requirements of biofacade systems are met ...
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 ...