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Measuring construction materials price fluctuation risk
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Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Construction projects costs are believed to be highly susceptible to a combination of internal and external factors. One of these factors is the prices of construction materials and the risk of their fluctuation. This paper ...
Multi-Criteria Decision Making Models for Water Pipelines
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2016 , Article)
The deterioration of water pipelines leads to impaired water quality, increased breakage rate, and reduced hydraulic capacity. The planning of maintenance programs for water pipelines is essential to minimize health and ...
Developing a framework for calculating LCA normalization factors for the State of Qatar
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Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for assessing the environmental impact of materials, systems and processes used in building construction. With its ability to clarify the ambiguities of the ...
Modeling of the sustainability goal and objective setting process in the predesign phase of green institutional building projects
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2014 , Article)
The process of constructing a sustainable green building presents a number of challenges compared with regular buildings. Additional work and documentation is needed in every stage of the project life cycle for the sustainable ...
Estimating Turning Movements at Signalized Intersections Using Artificial Neural Networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
, 2018 , Article)
Intersection turning movements' counts are critical input data for traffic studies, analysis, and forecasting. These types of counts are often used to analyze operational performance of signalized intersections under ...
Optimizing resource utilization during the recovery of civil infrastructure systems
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2010 , Article)
Postdisaster recovery efforts of damaged civil infrastructure systems need to be optimized in order to alleviate the adverse impacts of natural disasters on local societies and economies. This paper presents an innovative ...
Analysis of Pedestrian Crossing Speeds at Signalized Intersections in Qatar
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
, 2018 , Article)
Crossing speeds at signalized crossings are crucial and necessary for design purposes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the pedestrian crossing speeds at signalized intersections in Qatar. The crossing speeds ...
Effect of vehicle safety recalls on the perception towards other vehicles from the same country of origin
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Periodical Offices of Chang- an University
, 2019 , Article)
A vehicle safety recall significantly impacts the demand for these specific manufacturer vehicles. The effect of this recall on the other manufacturers from the same country of origin (COO) that are not involved in the ...
Seismic Assessment of Existing Lowrise and Midrise Reinforced Concrete Buildings Using the 2014 Qatar Construction Specification
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American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE)
, 2018 , Article)
Qatar is considered to have predominantly low seismic activity despite being close to some of the most active seismic zones in the world, including the Zagros thrust belt. However, the strong earthquakes that have recently ...
Probabilistic Viscoelastic Continuum Damage Analysis of Fatigue Life of Warm-Mix Asphalt
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2019 , Article)
Fatigue damage is one of the major distress modes that have a critical impact on the performance and serviceability of asphalt pavements. High variability in testing results poses a challenge for predicting the fatigue ...