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Progress on green infrastructure for urban cooling: Evaluating techniques, design strategies, and benefits
Journal Article Year: 2024 DOI:10.1016/j.uclim.2024.102077
Authors: Amjad Azmeer, Furqan Tahir, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
  • Climate Change
  • Cooling potential
  • ENVI-met
  • Green infrastructure
  • Urban heat island
  • WRF
Robustness, redundancy, inclusivity, and integration of built environment systems: resilience quantification from stakeholders’ perspectives
Journal Article Year: 2024 DOI:10.3389/fbuil.2024.1343334
Authors: Mohammed M Al-Humaiqani, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
  • Climate Change
  • Urban built environment
  • resilience qualities
  • redundancy
  • robustness
  • inclusivity
  • integration
  • capacity
Environmental impacts and the future prospects of waste utilization in the concrete production
Conference Year: 2024 DOI:10.1016/j.matpr.2024.05.150
Authors: Furqan Tahir, Sabrina Alzahrani, Yousef Noori, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
  • Carbon Emissions
  • Cement
  • Concrete
  • Environmental impacts
  • Recycled aggregates
  • Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW)
  • Life cycle assessment
The GCC's path to a sustainable future: Navigating the barriers to the adoption of energy efficiency measures in the built environment
Journal Article Year: 2024 DOI:10.1016/j.ecmx.2024.100636
Authors: Muhammad Imran Khan, Yusuf Bicer, M. Asif, Tareq Al-Ansari, Mushtaq Khan, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
  • Building Energy Efficiency (BEE)
  • Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
  • Barrier
Evaluating the influence of functional unit on life cycle assessment (LCA) reliability of concrete
Conference Year: 2024 DOI:10.1016/j.matpr.2024.04.079
Authors: Glenda Terán-Cuadrado, Sami Sbahieh, Furqan Tahir, Anissa Nurdiawati, Mohammed A Almarshoud, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
  • Buildings
  • Concrete
  • Functional unit
  • Embodied carbon emissions
  • LEED
  • Life cycle assessment (LCA)
Runoff uncertainty associated with global climate model chosen in regional climate modeling
Conference Year: 2024 DOI:10.5194/piahs-385-333-2024
Authors: Salah Basem Ajjur, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
  • Floods
  • modeling uncertainty
  • climate models
  • RCMs
  • Qatar
Augmented human thermal discomfort in urban centers of the Arabian Peninsula
Journal Article Year: 2024 DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-54766-7
Authors: Safi Ullah, Abdullah Aldossary, Waheed Ullah, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
  • universal thermal climate index (UTCI)
  • ERA5-HEAT
  • Thermal Discomfort
  • Urban centers
  • Arabian Peninsula (AP)
Sustainable Consumption and Education for Sustainability in Higher Education
Journal Article Year: 2022 DOI:10.3390/su14127255
Authors: Shaikha R Al-Nuaimi, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
  • education for sustainable development
  • sustainable consumption (SC)
  • higher education
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice towards sustainability aspects among higher education students in Qatar
Journal Article Year: 2022 DOI:10.3390/su142013149
Authors: Shaikha R Al-Nuaimi, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
  • education for sustainable development
  • higher education institute
  • Qatar education system
Recommendations and strategies to mitigate environmental implications of artificial island developments in the Gulf
Journal Article Year: 2022 DOI:10.3390/su14095027
  • artificial island development
  • environmental implications
  • land reclamation
  • marine ecology
  • mitigation strategies
  • sustainable development