World Congress and Exhibition on Construction and Steel Structure November 16-18, 2015 Dubai, UAE

Ayman Batisha holds a PhD degree in Civil Engineering from Cairo University (Egypt, 2001). He has been practicing, consulting, training, and researching in Sustainability for over twenty-four years. He was a faculty at Cairo University. He is a certified Environmental Consultant “Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)”. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Practice, Progress,and Proficiency in Sustainability Book Series. He is the founding General Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Sustainability.He is an advisory board member in the Sustainable Development and Sustainability Institute of East Africa (SDSIEA). He is a member in Egyptian National Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, SCOPE, established by the International Council for Science (ICSU).

Sustainability,Environment, Climate Change, Water Knowledge and Civil Engineering

Mahmoud Shatnawi is a director of MATCON Laboratory. He is also the technical accessors of Emirates National Accreditation. Previously he was the business development manager of Arab Center for Engineering Study, in the year of 2012. From 2007 to 2011, he worked as a resident manager in Gulf Laboratory. Before that, for one year, he was in the position of Regional Manager in Lonestar Technical & Industrial Services. He also worked as a technical manager in Qatar Emirates Laboratory. For three years he worked as a head of Material Department in Lotus For Soil Testing And Construction Material Testing . Along with these, he is the member of Jordanian Engineering Association, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and also Saudi Engineering Council.

JOHN ERMOPOULOS is author of many publications in international Journals and Conferences with a lot of references, and author of about fifteen technical books. He participated in many international Conferences, Seminars, Projects, Workshops and Scientific meetings.He is the visiting professor in University of Colorado at Denver, USA, and Steel Construction Institute, Ascot, UK. He was invited lecturer in many countries (USA, UK, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Cyprus, Poland, Norway etc). He received DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA in “Ljuben Karavelov-VSU” Civil Engineering High School, SOFIA. He is the member in various scientific Committees and Societies and also reviewer for scientific papers in many international Journals.

Stability of Structures, Analysis and Behaviour of Tapered Members, Semi-rigid Beam-to-Column Connections and Column Bases under cyclic loading etc.

Konstantinos Tsavdaridis is the Director of the research group focuses on steel and steel-concrete composite structures at the University of Leeds. He holds a MEng from City University London and an MSc (DIC) from Imperial College, London. His research expertise is in structural product development that embraces resilience and sustainability; particularly the development of innovative structural systems and members, and testing large-full scale structures. He has published more than 60 scientific articles, journal publications, technical reports and international conference papers. He is a member of ASCE, Professional Chartered Civil Engineer and registered at the European Federation of National Engineering Associations.

Steel / Steel-Concrete Composite (SCC) / Cold-Formed Steel / Aluminium Structural Members,Steel and Steel-Concrete Composite Beam-to-Column and Baseplate Connections, Structural Stability, Finite Element Modelling, Integrated Analysis and Design,Numerical Optimization of Steel and Steel-Concrete Composite Structures

S.F. Stiemer has worked for more than thirty years highly successful in research and development in the engineering field covering aeronautical, civil, and production engineering. His academic achievements were recognized internationally by becoming Fulbright Fellow in Berkeley, USA, and A.v.Humboldt Scholar in Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Stiemer was one of the early users of the C programming language, following up with many applications of own developments: stiffness matrix programs, educational multimedia projects, data acquisition and reduction of experimental testing of dynamic characteristics of buildings and bridges. He can be looked upon as a modern researcher emphasizing interdisciplinary issues of mostly practical value.

Adaptive structures (such as large telescopes and telescope enclosures), seismic retrofitting and rehabilitation of bridges, qualitative and semi-quantitative reasoning techniques, invention for wood composite structures, and entertainment ride safety systems, base isolation of structures and equipment

Dr. Venkatesh Kodur, Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, is a Professor and Director of the Centre on Structural Fire Engineering and Diagnostics at Michigan State University.His research contributions has lead to the development of fundamental understanding on the fire behavior of material and structural systems and also resulted in numerous design approaches and innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing fire-resistance of structural systems. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences, and has given numerous invited key-note presentations.Prof. Kodur is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a professional engineer, Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of Structural Engineering Institute, Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of American Concrete Institute, Associate Editor of Journal of Structural Engineering, Chairman of ACI Fire Protection Committee, Chairman of ASCE-29 (Fire) Standards Committee and a member of UK-EPSRC College of Reviewers. He has won many awards including AISC Faculty Fellowship Award, MSU Distinguished Faculty Award, NRCC (Government of Canada) Outstanding Achievement Award and NATO Award for collaborative research.Dr. Kodur was part of the FEMA/ASCE Building Performance Assessment Team that studied the collapse of WTC buildings as a result of September 11 incidents.

Evaluation of fire resistance of structural systems through large scale fire experiments and numerical modeling and Characterization of materials under high temperature

Dr. Zuheir Barsoum is an associate professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology where he is directing a research group on steel structures. He is chairman within the International Institute of Welding (IIW). He has published more than 90 papers in reputed journals and international conferences and received awards for his research. He has been involved in, beside university curriculum development and teaching, in developing international vocational training program in welding and design. He is a frequently engaged consultant within the industry as an expert within structural integrity. He is currently a visiting associate professor at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi.

lightweight metals, joining and welding techniques, structural integrity, FEA and computational weld mechanics

Dr. Amr Sweedan is the Chairman of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the UAE University. Before joining the UAE University in 2005, Dr. Sweedan held the position of a Senior Engineer at the head office of Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc. (RWDI), Consulting Engineers and Scientists, in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Sweedan earned his Ph.D. in Structural Dynamics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada (P.Eng.). In addition, he is a member of several professional societies including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE). Dr. Sweedan’s areas of research interest include: Modeling and Testing of Solid, Cellular and Castellated Steel Elements; Strengthening of Steel Structures using FRP; Response of High-rise Buildings to Seismic and Wind Loading; and Stability and Behavior of Shell Structures under Hydrostatic and Hydrodynamic Pressures.

Modeling and Testing of Solid, Cellular and Castellated Steel Elements; Strengthening of Steel Structures using FRP

Professor Brian Uy is the Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) at The University of New South Wales. Brian has co-authored over 600 publications including 160 journal articles and has delivered over 250 conference papers in 35 countries, including over 50 keynote/invited lectures in 15 countries. He has been involved in research in steel and composite structures for over 20 years and is the Chairman of the Standards Australia Committee BD32 on Composite Structures and he is a member of BD90 on Bridge Structures which are developing standards on Steel and Composite Structures for buildings and bridges respectively. He has been the Chairman of the Australia Regional Group of the Institution of Structural Engineers since 2012. Brian is the Chief Editor (Asia-Pacific) for Steel and Composite Structures and he also currently serves on the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Task Committee 5 on Composite Construction.

Steel-Concrete Composite Structures,Steel Structures, Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering

Dr. Osama Mohamed has more than 22 years of combined professional and academic experience in the area of structural engineering. He is the founding chair of the Civil Engineering Department at Abu Dhabi University. He is also the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at Abu Dhabi University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. Dr. Osama is a member of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). His primary research interests include stability of steel structures and progressive collapse resistant design of building structures. In addition, he published articles on earthquake resistant design of steel and concrete structures. Dr. Osama received several awards for excellent service and teaching at Abu Dhabi University. Dr. Osama was faculty member at the University of Hartford, USA, prior to joining Abu Dhabi University.

Earthquake resistant design of steel and concrete structures,stability of steel structures,progressive collapse resistant design of building structures

Hamidi Abdul Aziz is a professor in the School of Civil Engineering of Universiti Sains Malaysia. Professor Aziz received his PhD degree in civil engineering from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland in 1992. To date, he has published over 200 refereed articles in professional journals and proceedings. Dr Aziz continues to serve as a peer reviewer for more than 30 international journals. Professor Aziz currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the IJSRES. He also serves as the managing editor of the IJEWM and the IJEE. Aside from these, he is a member of the editorial board of 10 other international journals in the environmental discipline. Professor Aziz served as a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Science (CEES) in King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

bioremediation of crude oil in contaminated coastal sediments,Heavy metals removal from water,Solid waste management-waste characterization, quantification and recycling, landfill technology.

Dr. Zhanping You, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University, earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in USA.He was awarded a prestigious fellowship from American Society of Civil Engineers to participate the ExCEEd Teaching Workshop at the United States Military Academy.He has published over 130 peer reviewed papers and dozens of other papers. His research projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), Federal Highway Administration, Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), and Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Professor You has serves as an associate editor for the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering since 2008. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, Malaysian Construction Research Journal (MCRJ) and a few other journals.He was a lead editor of four ASCE Special Publication books.He was a lead guest editor for a special issue of Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. He won the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Faculty Fellowship when he was in Texas.

transportation materials, pavement design, asphalt pavement engineering

Dr. Syed M. Ahmed is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Construction Management at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina USA. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Construction Management,College of Engineering & Computing, Florida International University (FIU) and an affiliated faculty of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at FIU. Dr. Ahmed received his Ph.D. in 1993 and his MSCE in 1989 from Georgia Institute of Technology majoring in Construction Engineering & Management, with a minor in Industrial Engineering and Management Science. He also holds an undergraduate degree of BSCE from University of Engineering & Technology in Pakistan (1984).He has over 25 years of international experience in teaching, research and consulting in Pakistan, Hong Kong, USA, Mexico,and Jamaica.He has generated substantial external support and revenue from various funding agencies including United States Agency for International Development (USAID), US Department of Defense, and Florida Department of Education and through his international conferences. He is the author of four books and has also published extensively (over 150 publications) in international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr. Ahmed is currently on the editorial board of more than 6 international journals and serves as the Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering & Management and the Associate Editor of the Built Environment Project & Asset Management (BEPAM) Journal.

construction scheduling, quality and risk management, project controls, construction safety, construction procurement, and construction education and information technology

Prof. Khalifa Al-Jabri obtained his PhD in structural fire engineering from Sheffield University, UK in 2000. He is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He published more than 110 papers in international Journals and Conferences. His main research interests are Behaviour of structures in fire, use of waste materials in Civil Engineering applications and Seismic Hazard Assessment. He is peer reviewer in more than 30 journals and he is member in the editorial board of several journals such as Structural Fire Engineering Journal.

Behaviour of structures at elevated temperature in particular steel joints ,Structural Dynamics,High performance structures and materials

Dr. Cheng Yu, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, is a faculty member of the Construction Engineering Technology program at University of North Texas. He earned both his Ph.D., and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and received his B.E. in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 1998. His current projects are focused on developing high-performance light steel structural systems for low- and mid-rise buildings. Dr. Yu serves on several technical committees in American Society of Civil Engineers, American Iron and Steel Institute, and Structural Stability Research Council. He is a recipient of 2010 Faculty Early Career Development Award from National Science Foundation.

structural behaviors of light framed steel buildings subjected to multi-hazards, structural design of cold-formed steel structures, earthquake engineering and structural control, innovative construction materials and structures, and Building Information Modeling

Professor Lin-Hai Han is head of Department, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.He has published 4 books, more than 100 refereed journal papers (including 80 international journal papers), and 60 refereed international conference papers.He is one of the outstanding Young Researchers awarded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is widely consulted by the industry and government authorities on a wide range of structural engineering projects.He has played an important role in drafting several designing codes on steel-concrete composite structures in China. Prof. Han holds roles on the Editorial Board for the Elsevier Journal of Constructional Steel Research, the Techno-Press Steel and Composite Structures, the Hong Kong Institute of Steel Construction (HKISC) International Journal of Advanced Steel Construction, the Multi-Science Publishing Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, and four national journals in civil engineering in China.

steel-concrete composite and mixed structures under different loadings, such as static, dynamic and fire

Dr. Raja Rizwan Hussain, Associate Professor at CoE-CRT, Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, KSA.He is the editor of several ISI-indexed international journals. He has also served as guest editor for several international ISI-indexed journals.Dr. Hussain has authored more than 150 research publications including ISI-indexed journal papers, international conference proceedings, edited books, editorials, expos, invention shows and exhibitions, technical reports etc. He is also an inventor of 5 US & WO international patents.He has secured more than 15 national and international research grants worth millions of US Dollars. He is an active member of more than 20 international societies, organizations, councils & committees.Dr. Hussain has received more than 60 medals, awards, prizes and distinctions throughout his research, academic and professional career.

Steel Reinforced Concrete Technology - Materials & Structures, especially Corrosion

Yassin AL-Kour is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer in K&A Lebanon. He is the member of Professional Societies Order of Syrian Engineers (OSE),Member of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), Syrian Soil of Mechanics Society (SSMS) and also Syrian Society of US Graduates (SSUSG).He has 25 years of experience in the geotechnical engineering domain.

deep and shallow foundations design, earthworks design, sand dunes mitigation, materials, slope stability, site investigations, preparation and follow-up on geotechnical investigation programmes, interpretation of investigation results.

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968.He is the author and coauthor of over 460 publications. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow sixteen societies including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Royal Aeronautical Society, Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).). He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations for his research contributions.

Computational Science and Engineering - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Materials Science and Manufacturing, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), and Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization,Nanotechnology and computational modeling of top-down Nanofabrication,clean and renewable energy,wind energy, solar thermal energy, chemical looping combustion for carbon capture, geological sequestration of CO2, and fuel cell and battery modeling

Dr.Nicola Pugno is the Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Trento (Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering).He is also the Founder of the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics “Giuseppe Maria Pugno” at Politecnico and the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired & Graphene Nanomechanics at the University of Trento.Dr. Pugno,is a member of the scientific and technical committe of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). He has recived several awards like, ERC Starting (Consolidator) Grant 2011 BISHNAM on “Bio-inspired hierarchical super nanomaterials”;ERC Proof of Concept 2013-1 REPLICA2 on “Large-area replication of biological anti-adhesive nanosurfaces”; ERC Proof of Concept 2013-2 KNOTOUGH on “Super-tough knotted fibres”. He is also associated with several journals. Dr. Pugno is the editor in chief of Frontiers in Materials - Mechanics of Materials, Bio-Inspired Materials, Academic Editor of PLoS ONE and Editorial Board Member in Biological Physics of Scientific Report. In addition, he is the Editorial Board member for 44 Int. Journals.

Fábio Duarte is urban planner, having worked as the head-consultant for the transportation and urban mobility plan of Curitiba, Brazil, among other projects. Professor of urban management at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, in Curitiba, Dr. Duarte has been visiting professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Yokohama National University in Japan, and visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S. Currently, Dr. Duarte is research associate at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and consultant for the World Bank.In 2005 he received the Faculty Enrichment Award from the Government of Canada.

Urban Management,sustainable urban mobility