[Bldg-rate] CALL FOR PAPERS - CIBMENA 2014 conference

[ahmad okeil]

Dear bldg-rate members, 


Please feel free to
 circulate this call for papers within your networks and consider 
participating in the conference. I would also be happy to have volunteers 
to join the international scientific committee which will review 
submitted papers.

Best regards
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Ahmad Okeil, PhD
Professor of Architecture and Design
College of
Engineering
Abu Dhabi University
P. O. Box 59911
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Office:   +971-2-5015739
email: ahmad.okeil at adu.ac.ae


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Call for Papers   Smart, Sustainable and Healthy Cities

First International Conference of The CIB Middle East and North Africa Research Network (CIB-MENA 2014)

Hosted by: Abu Dhabi University, UAE 14-16 December 2014 
URL: http://www.adu.ac.ae/CIBMENA/
Email: cib-mena2014 at adu.ac.ae




The CIB Middle East and North
Africa
 Research Network CIB-MENA is organizing  its first international 
conference “Smart, Sustainable and Healthy Cities”, which will be held 
in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from 14 to 16 December 2014.   We 
would like to invite you to submit your abstract/paper in the 
forthcoming conference.   This conference will provide an excellent 
opportunity for everyone involved in the design, planning, construction,
 and management of the built environment to share research, best 
practices, experiences, technologies, and policies applicable, and 
offering solutions to the challenges of cities in the 21st century. More
 information in the call for papers below.


Theme
Cities
 in the Middle East and North Africa, like cities in other parts of the 
world, are experiencing an unprecedented wave of urbanization.  This 
urbanization is forecast to
continue and intensify in 
the next decades.  Many old cities are mushrooming to incomprehensible 
sizes and are forecast to approach or exceed 40 million people in the 
coming decade.  In other cases instant cities have emerged and developed
 from wilderness to full urban status within a single generation.

This
 rapid development poses a great challenge for all those involved in the
 design, planning, construction, and management of the built environment
 in order to provide sustainable, livable, equitable, and viable cities 
for all people. These challenges are so diverse and range from 
retrofitting existing building stock and infrastructure to the design 
and construction of new developments. They are also so diverse that they
 requires innovative interventions at different levels starting from 
urban and infra-structure planning on one end of the scale to interior 
design and material science on the other end
of the 
scale with many other levels in-between including architecture, civil 
engineering, urban design, and landscape architecture.  The challenges 
are also so diverse that sustaining cities will not be possible without 
interdisciplinary efforts. Decision makers will need to involve 
multidisciplinary teams of planners, architects, engineers,
environmentalists,
 scientists and economists to sustain the growth of these centers that 
are shaped by global factors, and aspire to retain local identities.  
This conference will provide an excellent opportunity for everyone 
involved in the design, planning, construction, and management of the 
built environment to share research, best practices, experiences, 
technologies, and policies applicable, and offering solutions to the 
challenges of cities in the 21st century.


Topics of Interest:



The conference encourages submission of papers on topics including but not limited to the following:
 
Planning
•         Mixed-use Urban Development.
•         Urban Sprawl and Density Optimization.
•         Rehabilitation of Damaged Sites.
•         Public Transportation.
•        
 Low Energy Transportation.
•         Mitigation of Heat Island Effect.
•         City Climate.
•         Building Codes and Regulations.
•         Spatial Planning and Infrastructure Development.
•         Urban Resilience.
•         Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Sustainability

Management
•         Construction management and organization
•         Lean Construction.
•         Construction Procurement
•         Construction Business Management
•         E-business in construction
•         International Construction
•         Construction Innovation and Management
•         Health and Safety
•         Construction Education 
•        
 Construction Industry Development
•         Design Management and Integration
•         Design and Management of Critical Infrastructure.
•         Facility Management

Energy/Water Efficiency
•         Commissioning of Building Energy Systems.
•         Optimization of Energy Performance.
•         Refrigerant Management.
•         Building Integrated Renewable
 Energy.
•         On-site Renewable Energy.
•         Offsite Renewable Energy.
•         Monitoring Energy Consumption of Building.
•         Water Efficiency in Buildings and Landscape Ecology
•         Habitat Protection and Restoration.


Waste Management
•         Stormwater Management.
•         Wastewater Management.
•         Waste Management
•         Construction Waste Management.
•         Water, Air, Soil, Light Pollution Reduction.
•         Construction Activity Pollution Prevention.

Building Materials and Components
•         Rehabilitation, Reuse, Remanufacturing and Recycling in the Construction Industry.
•         Embodied Energy of Building Materials.
•         Building Materials Stewardship and Environmental Certification.

Human Comfort and Health Issues
•         Livable Cities
•         Thermal Comfort.
•         Visual Comfort.
•         Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality.
•         Passive Design Strategies.
•         Natural and Mechanical Ventilation.

Assessment Methodologies
•         Post Occupancy Evaluation.
•         Environmental Impact Assessment.
•         Life Cycle Assessment.
•         Ranking Systems.

Economics of Sustainability
•         Business Case for Sustainable Design.
•         Greenwashing in the Construction Industry.
•         Incentives as a driver of Sustainability.
•         Affordability and Sustainability.

Information Technology
•         Intelligent and Responsive Buildings
•         Smart and Sustainable Built Environment 
•         Building Information Modeling  
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