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Call for Papers Smart, Sustainable
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First International Conference of
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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
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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
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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
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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
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the design, planning, construction,
and management of the built
environment to share research, best
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Planning<br class="" style=""
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• Mixed-use Urban
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• Urban Sprawl and Density
Optimization.<br class="" style=""
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• Rehabilitation of Damaged
Sites.<br class="" style=""
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• Public Transportation.<br
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• Mitigation of Heat Island
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• Building Codes and
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• Spatial Planning and
Infrastructure Development.<br
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Aspects of Sustainability<br
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Management<br class="" style=""
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• Construction management
and organization<br class=""
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• E-business in construction<br
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• Construction Innovation
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Development<br class="" style=""
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• Design Management and
Integration<br class="" style=""
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• Design and Management of
Critical Infrastructure.<br class=""
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Energy/Water Efficiency<br class=""
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• Commissioning of Building
Energy Systems.<br class="" style=""
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• Refrigerant Management.<br
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• Building Integrated
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• On-site Renewable Energy.<br
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• Monitoring Energy
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• Water Efficiency in
Buildings and Landscape Ecology<br
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• Building Materials
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Human Comfort and Health Issues<br
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• Livable Cities<br class=""
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• Thermal Comfort.<br
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• Indoor/Outdoor Air
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• Passive Design Strategies.<br
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• Natural and Mechanical
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Assessment Methodologies<br class=""
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• Post Occupancy Evaluation.<br
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• Environmental Impact
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• Life Cycle Assessment.<br
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• Ranking Systems.<br
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Economics of Sustainability<br
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• Business Case for
Sustainable Design.<br class=""
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• Greenwashing in the
Construction Industry.<br class=""
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• Incentives as a driver of
Sustainability.<br class="" style=""
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• Affordability and
Sustainability.<br class="" style=""
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Information Technology<br class=""
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• Intelligent and Responsive
Buildings<br class="" style=""
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• Smart and Sustainable
Built Environment <br class=""
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• Building Information
Modeling
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