Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Sustainable Built Environment: An Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Roadmap for a Sustainable Built Environment: A Science-Based Multidisciplinary Research

      • Oral Büyüköztürk

      Pages 3-14

   3. Kuwait-MIT Collaborative Signature Project: Sustainability of Kuwait’s Built Environment

      • Hasan A. Kamal

      Pages 15-23

3. Sustainable Construction Materials

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Challenges and Opportunities for Concrete in the Digital Era

      • Henri Van Damme

      Pages 27-56

   3. Sustainability of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymers in Construction

      • Urs Meier

      Pages 57-75

   4. On the Behaviour of Recycled Aggregate Concrete Incorporating Slag

      • Moetaz El-Hawary, Anwar Al-Yaqout, Khallad Nouh

      Pages 77-91

   5. Ecological Cementitious Material Based on Combination Between Natural Pozzolan and Polymer Admixture

      • Mohammed Hussein Khudhair, Abdulsamad Mohammed Alhousali, Bouchra El Hilal, Rachid Hsissou, Mohamed Berradi, Ahmed Mohammed Al-Anweh et al.

      Pages 93-107

   6. Modeling the Rutting Behavior of Asphalt Mixtures Obtained by Accelerated Testing Device

      • Taha A. Ahmed, Mohammad H. Yassin

      Pages 109-121

   7. Design and Manufacturing a Miniature Reynolds Apparatus for Testing Nanofluids

      • Ahmad Sedaghat, Hayder Salem, Seyed Amir Abbas Oloomi, Leila Borvayeh, Masoud Rashidi, Abbas Amini et al.

      Pages 123-144

   8. Effect of Aluminosilicate Nanoparticles on Cement Blends Containing Volcanic Ash and Metakaolin

      • Rehab Masmoudi, Ali Bumajdad, Kunal Kupwade-Patil

      Pages 145-155

   9. Compressed Earth Blocks: A Sustainable Construction Alternative

      • Ahmad S. Saad, Fahad M. Al-Enezi, Hamad A. Al-Sayab, Zuhair H. Al-Zayed, Fares H. Awwad, Sarah N. Al-Muhanna

      Pages 157-168

   10. Historic Heritage Protection as Part of Sustainable Growth

       • Jadwiga W. Lukaszewicz, Jerzy P. Lukaszewicz

       Pages 169-184

   11. Archaeological Science in the Arabian Gulf: A Study of Bronze Age Pottery from Kuwait Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF)

       • Hasan J. Ashkanani

       Pages 185-210

4. Structural Monitoring, Assessment, and Engineering

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Sustainable Design of Earthquake-Resistant Buildings Through Case Studies

      • Sassan Mohasseb, Niloufar Ghazanfari, Mona Alizadeh

      Pages 213-252

   3. Experimental Verification of Inelastic Energy Demand Spectrum Using SDOF Steel Specimens on Shaking Table

      • Hümeyra Börekçi, Cem Yalçın, Ercan Yüksel

      Pages 253-259

   4. Image-Based Dynamic Response Measurement of a Full-Scale, Multistory Structure Tested on a Shake Table

      • Ferit Yardımcı, Cem Yalçın, Ercan Yüksel

      Pages 261-267

   5. Determination of Input Energy Profile in Structures Through Seismic Interferometry

      • Burak Horoz, Cem Yalçın, Ercan Yüksel

      Pages 269-277

This volume brings together outstanding contributions to the Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, held at the Marina Hotel Kuwait, near Kuwait City. The Proceedings collects 29 papers on a range of engineering and materials challenges, and best practices, addressing development of new sustainable building materials, performance improvement of structures and tall buildings, developing monitoring and analysis techniques and frameworks for existing infrastructure under environmental effects, development of long-term sustainability plans for building stock, and development of energy efficient buildings in the gulf region. The Conference was organized by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, and Kuwait University.

• Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment
• new sustainable building materials
• performance improvement of structures
• performance improvement of tall buildings
• monitoring and analysis techniques for existing infrastructure
• long-term sustainability of building stock
• energy efficient buildings
• conference proceedings
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Department of Chemistry, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait

  Ali Bumajdad

• Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait City, Kuwait

  Walid Bouhamra

• Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait City, Kuwait

  Osamah A. Alsayegh

• Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait Municipal Council, Kuwait City, Kuwait

  Hasan A. Kamal

• Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, Kuwait City, Kuwait

  Salem Falah Alhajraf

Prof. Oral Buyukozturk is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Prof. Walid Bouhamra is a professor of chemical engineering at Kuwait University; Prof. Ali Bumajdad is a professor of chemistry at Kuwait University; Dr. Osamah A. Alsayegh is executive director at the Energy and Building Research Center, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research; and Dr. Hasan Kamal is a research scientist with the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.

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