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Research under Sustainable Planning And Smart Cities focuses on the planning, design, analysis, and construction management of infrastructure systems crucial to the economic viability of UAE.
Research projects covers construction planning and intelligent management of buildings, transportation networks, and public works, such as roads, bridges, and airport. Urban planning ensures that infrastructure projects consider aspects of resilience and sustainability. Leveraging the wealth of local civil engineering and construction activities, and the transportation sector ensures relevance and immediate use of research results.
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PROJECTS AND GRANTS
Rethinking Suburbs: Morphological and Network Analysis Review
The research aims to provide an insight into the neighborhood design, efficiency, and sustainable development strategies of Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
The key objectives of the research are:
- Investigating the changes in the physical form and structure of neighborhoods over time.
- Assessing the design of neighborhood street networks for their efficiency and impact on urban connectivity, both locally and city-wide.
- Exploring how neighborhoods can be designed to encourage walking as a practical mode of transportation
PI: Dr. Khaled Alawadi
Funding: Internal Funding
Rethinking Urban Sustainability in the GCC: Translating Plans into Practices
This research aims to enhance KU’s contribution to the region as a key partner in developing sustainable urban strategies for the nation’s future development.
The key objectives of the research are to:
- Assist public agencies in the GCC region in understanding the urban form of neighborhoods landscapes progress over time.
- Document the transformation of urban form in the GCC region.
- Explore which urban forms of neighborhoods have more sustainable forms, thus encouraged in future planning.
- Provide a critical study on which urban forms and policies should be revisited, which ones to further adopt in the future, and which ones to reassess and drop.
PI: Dr. Khaled Alawadi
Funding: Internal Funding
AI Modeling of Roadway Network Service Life
- The foundation of this research is to study the history of an existing network to train a model using machine learning. The network history is connected geo temporally to include the following:
- Roadway structural design
- Material production and placement quality
- Environmental conditions through out the service life
- Loading conditions through out the service life
- The first objective of this research is to developed a governing framework to conduct a comprehensive data-driven pavement management system with high level of accuracy.
- The second objective is to prepare a performance-based specification for quality management of mix production and construction.
PIs: Ahmed Faheem
Funding: External
Developing Mix Design Protocol for Incorporating Recycled Pavements in Low Energy
- This research investigated the effect of using high concentration of recycled materials in asphalt pavement while using low energy additives.
- The study proved that the mix design can be tailed to achieve targeted performance by controlling RAP and binder grade.
- This study was able to increase the dosage of recycled materials without compromising the performance.
PI:Ahmed Faheem
Funding: External
Systemic Approach for Using Multi-Recycled Pavement Materials
- In this study, the synergy of multiple recycled materials to develop a sustainable pavement material to replace the current dependence on natural raw resources.
- A blend of food waste extracted bio-oil, industrial waste, and construction waste is used to replace petroleum-based asphalt binder and natural aggregate.
- LCA conducted supports the laboratory findings.
PI:Ahmed Faheem
Funding: External
