Smart and Sustainable Built Environment: Volume 8 Issue 2

Subject:

Table of contents - Special Issue: Sustainable planning, urban design and architecture in the Middle East and North Africa region

Overview: the opportunity of BIM in railway

Mounir Bensalah, Abdelmajid Elouadi, Hassan Mharzi

The authors will give an overview of the railway market, with a focus on Morocco, before seeing the challenges to face, before listing some benefits of rail links in terms of…

8980

Mathematical optimisation of location and design of windows by considering energy performance, lighting and privacy of buildings

Ahmed Hammad, Ali Akbarnezhad, Hanna Grzybowska, Peng Wu, Xiangyu Wang

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is known for its extreme weather conditions during Summer. A major determinant of the sustainability of the design of a building is…

1797

The social imperative in sustainable urban development: The case of Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates

Kasim Randeree, Nadeem Ahmed

The purpose of this paper is to examine social sustainability effectiveness of eco-cities through the case of Masdar City’s strategy for urban sustainability in Abu Dhabi, United…

9342

A quasi-experimental method for testing rural design support within a DRM framework

Michaël Willem Maria Smits

The purpose of this paper is to describe the quasi-experiment setting to test the formulated design support (developed in the author’s PhD research) within a design research…

1680
Cover of Smart and Sustainable Built Environment

ISSN:

2046-6099

Online date, start – end:

2012

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Farzad Pour Rahimian