2nd World Congress and Exhibition on Construction and Steel Structure September 22-24, 2016 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

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. 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

Halil Sezen is a Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus, Ohio U.S.A. He received his B.S. degree from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1993. He received his Master’s degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute.

Halil Sezen’s research focuses on computational simulation and experimental testing of structures under extreme loads including earthquakes. He has been investigating collapse performance of reinforced concrete and steel buildings through field experiments and numerical simulations.

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. Dr. Yu' research interests include 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, 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

Dr Walid Tizani is an associate professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham. He is the Head of the Centre for Structural Engineering and Informatics. His main research areas are the application of novel informatics in the areas of structural engineering and construction and the performance of steel connections. In the area of the use of informatics, his experience includes building information modelling, process and product modelling, process re-engineering, integrated and multi-aspect design and construction (nD modelling), and virtual prototyping. He used and developed techniques and algorithms using visualisation and VR, object-oriented and knowledge-based technologies. He researched in the area of construction-led design, economic-led design, information modelling for the sustainability appraisal of buildings and collaborative and integrated approach to design and construction. In the area of structural steelwork connections, he devised moment-resisting blind-bolting technologies to concrete-filled columns. He researches in the area of the performance of connections using model and component-based approaches.

structural design,steel structures, building information modelling, , integrated and multi-aspect design and construction (nD modelling)

Mauro Nicoletti has a degree in civil engineering. He graduated in April, 2006 at Università degli Study of Udin with a dissertation on “Push Over Analysis in Masonry Buildings”.In July, 2006 he qualified as engineer. He has entered the Order of Engineer of Venice Province since June 23, 2006. He is registered with number 3862. From 2006 to 2008 he attended a specialization course “Master F.lli Pesenti” at Politecnico in Milan where he deepened his knowledge in reinforced concrete structures through research and planning activity with Professor Antonio Migliacci. He has been President of Commitee for Building Permission in Torre di Mosto Town Council since May, 2007. He has worked at the Faculty of Civil Architecture at Politecnico in Milan, and he has collaborated with Professor Antonio Migliacci in his laboratory of “Theory and Planning of Buildings and Structures” since June, 2007. From 2007 he is Adjunct Professor Politecnico di Milano – course of design structure. On September 23, 2007 at Park of Sculpture in San Dona’ di Piave – Venice he organized the meeting “Towers, Skyscrapers and Tall Buildings: Town stands upright”

M.Manikandan is the Sr. Structural Engineer at Gulf Consult-Kuwait with responsibility for Designing and Construction Consultation of the tall buildings, Colleges, Shopping Complexes, Multi story Car Parks, Hospitals, Bridges and Deep Underground structures by considering the Structural requirements and adequate construct able systems to complete the projects within allocated budget and time schedule. Prior to joining Gulf Consult-Kuwait, he has worked as Structural Engineer at several companies, including RECAFCO-Kuwait, SAEED HADI ALDOOSARY EST-Saudi Arabia, Where he has completed many Precast Structures and treatment plant including the deep underground structures with heavy equipment. Notable he is in the construction industry since past 15 years and has completed many land mark projects in Kuwait as well in Saudi. He is pursuing PhD in Risk Management in International Construction Projects as an External Part time researcher with Vels University Chennai-India and expected completion on end of 2015 and He has been received Civil Engineering Degree from Kamraj University Madurai-India on April, 2000 following that he has received MBA in Project Management from Sikkim Manipal University-India in 2012.

Mostafa Fahmi Hassanein has completed his Ph.D at the age of 31 years from Tanta University, Egypt. He is currently an "Associate Professor of Structural Engineering" at the Department of Structural Engineering at the same University. He has published 27 papers in international journals, at which all were published by Elsevier (Engineering Structures, Thin-Walled Structures and Journal of Constructional Steel Research), except one which was published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Structures and Buildings. He has published 6 international journal papers where he is the sole author. In 17 international journal papers, he was the first author of the research teams that included international collaborations. In the remaining 4 international journal papers, he was working as a co-author with a research team. His research works show his ability to collaborate with researchers from different disciplines and countries. He has worked with Nuno Silvestre (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) in the lateral-distortional buckling of steel beams and the results were published in two international papers. Then, he has collaborated with Qing Quan (Stephen) Liang (Victoria University, Australia) in three international papers to examine the axial compressive behaviour of thee different composite columns all with outer stainless steel tubes. Recently, he has investigated the double-skin composite columns by the collaboration of Leroy Gardner (Imperial Collage, UK). Other collaboration is currently under preparation with a research team from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. All of these scholars had different backgrounds. He has served as a reviewer for different reputed journals (i.e. the Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Thin-Walled Structures, The Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, Engineering Structures, Computers and Concrete, An international Journal, Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering, Steel and Composite Structures, An International Journal and the Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, all published by Elsevier and other reputed publishers) and conferences (ARMA 2014) and proposal research grants (National Science Centre, Poland). He has also invited to the 8th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC), Graz, Austria, 2012 as an "Invited Speaker". Recently, he has awarded the "State's Incentive Award in the Engineering Sciences" in 2015 from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt. He has passed several training courses given by the National Center for Faculty and Leadership Development (NCFLD) "International Board of Certified Trainers (IBCT) Middle East & North African Division" such as: Research Ethics, Time and Meeting Management, University Administration, The Credit Hour Systems, Effective Presentation Skills, Conference Organisation Program, Students' Evaluation, just as examples. Also, he has participated in a doctoral steel course in Sweden, as a scholarship from Lulea University of technology. In addition, he has attended, as a grant, a workshop in Egypt entitled "Building early career researcher's capacity to investigate, evaluate and disseminated the impact of technology on learning and teaching in schools, colleges and universities" from 9-13 February 2015. More recently, he has participated in the DAAD Alumni Conference titled "Towards a Knowledge Society? Strategies and Challenges for the 21st Century" on the 9th and 10th of October 2015 in Alexandria, Egypt as a grant from The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

His research is focused on the analysis and design of steel and composite structures. His current research in these areas aims at improving the Design Codes and Standards that are currently used worldwide (e.g. EC3, EC4, AISC, AASHTO and AS 4100), to design more effective structures with minimised initial material costs and life-cycle costs.