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Emerging Brine Management Approaches for Sustainable Desalination in the GCC Countries
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
The major technologies employed in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) based commercial desalination facilities are classified into two categories: the membrane-based (mostly reverse osmosis (RO)) and thermal-based (primarily ...
Mitigating Legal Risks in Construction Project Contracts: The Importance and the Applicability of Force Majeure Clauses
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Contracts in the construction industry are structured in a manner that splits the risks between different contracting parties; hence risk allocations within the contract affect the price and operation. As most Construction ...
Efficient Turbidity Removal Using a New Gel Filtration Process
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
The removal of turbidity is a prime objective in the treatment of seawater, especially in the production of potable water. The water turbidity exists because of the colloidal particles or large-weight molecules that remain ...
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 ...
Built Environment Attributes and Walking Patterns: A Case Study of Abu Dhabi Downtown
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Walkability is crucial in sustainable urban design. Our understanding on the walkability in cities in hot and arid climate needs to be improved due to shortage of our knowledge and previous studies about this. Thus, this ...
Revisiting the Building Design Attributes and Indoor Radon: A Survey of 36 Homes in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Radon is an odorless radioactive gas that exists in the soil underneath buildings in areas that is rich in Radium and Uranium. It seeps from the soil and accumulates in the indoor environment. In 2009, radon gas has been ...
Practical Implementation of Campus Facility Management Performance Measurement in Qatar
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Effective facility management is crucial to overall firm performance and is becoming a core competency for organizations seeking to gain a competitive advantage and attain their goals. Recent research on facility management ...
A Side-by-Side Comparison of Shaft Excavation locally in Qatar
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
The city of Doha has grown and expanded rapidly in the last 20 years, but this growth has strained the city's infrastructure, including its aging sewerage system and treatment facilities. The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) ...
Review on Decarbonizing the Building Sector in Oil and Gas Countries: The Case of Qatar
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Climate change is a serious international issue, and nations must move to carbon reduction to mitigate
this problem. Therefore, Qatar is building strategies, towards energy transitions and decarbonization.
Whereas, energy ...
UV Induced Photodegradation of Direct Green dye by Tb-doped La10Si6O27 Catalyst
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Due to the expansion of industry, the world's population growth has led to increased air and water contamination. Because they are poisonous and non-biodegradable, organic dyes are a significant source of this contamination. ...