Educational programmes on ecosystems 

The Graduation Project course of the Architectural Engineering program focuses on student projects that aim to promote conservation and sustainable utilization of land. The assessment of this course involves evaluating and optimizing student design ideas to select the most sustainable and practical idea for land conservation and preservation. Each student then proceeds to detail their selected design idea. In addition, there are two research projects related to sustainability and energy analysis/environmental design:

For Sustainability:

The research project titled "Sustainable Building Components for Innovative Environmentally Friendly Construction: Graphene-based Concrete in Construction" involves collaboration with London South Bank University (LSBU) and industry partners through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Almanarateen Company. The authors from ASU are Dr. Wael Abdelhameed, Dr. Mohamed Salama, Dr. Faiza Zitouni, and Mr. Yusuf Buzaboon, while the authors from LSBU are Prof. Udeaja Emmanuel Chika, Dr. Suela Kellici, and Dr. Lucy Ogbenjuwa.

A paper from this research project titled "Decarbonisation of Concrete Using Graphene-based Materials in the Cementitious Mix Design" is currently under evaluation. The conference link for this paper can be found here:  https://bse.bh/en/conferences/2379/

For Energy Analysis and Environmental Design:

The research project titled "Reducing Energy Consumption through Resources and Materials: A case study of residential projects' design in Bahrain" is authored by Dr. Wael Abdelhameed. It involves collaboration with Eskan Bank on their housing projects.

A paper from this research project titled "Economic Environmental Approach in Energy Consumption of Houses" is also under evaluation. The conference link for this paper can be found here: https://bse.bh/en/conferences/2379/

These research projects and papers contribute to supporting land ecosystems through the education of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15.

The Graduation Project course of Civil Engineering program consists of students’ ‎projects related to:‎

Ecosystem improvement and preservation.‎

The students learn and apply how to improve the quality and preserve the resources for human health ‎and welfare, as well as ‎the marine life:

From students’ projects:

1.      Assessment of urban flood risk potential and design ‎of storm water system ‎

2.      Flood inundation modelling of natural channels ‎for different probabilities of occurrence  ‎

3.      Design of water supply system for an urban area  ‎

4.      Design of sewage water network for an urban ‎area. ‎

5.      Design of rainwater harvesting system.

6.      Grey water treatment system in the household ‎and design of storm water system.  ‎

In Addition to the following research activities:

1-     Sustainability and Environmental Design papers:

• Hdeib, R., Aouad, M. 2023. Rainwater harvesting systems: An urban flood risk mitigation measure in arid areas, Water Science and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wse.2023.04.004

• Hdeib R., Abdallah C., Colin F., Brocca L., Moussa R., 2018. Constraining coupled hydrological-hydraulic flood model by past storm events and post-event measurements in data-sparse regions. Journal of Hydrology, October 2018, Volume 565, pages:160-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.08.008

• Hdeib R., Moussa R., Colin F., Abdallah C., 2020. A new cost-performance grid to compare different flood modelling approaches. Hydrological Sciences Journal, Feb. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2021.1873346

• Abdelhameed, Wael, and Housein, Esam. Reducing Energy Demand Between Actual ‎and Digital: A study case of BIM analysis of ‎a ‎housing unit. In IDoBE International Conference. Keyworth Centre, London South Bank University, UK, 22-24 November 2021. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=VYhpN2cAAAAJ&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=VYhpN2cAAAAJ:hMod-77fHWUC

• Al Kuheji, Mohammed, and Abdelhameed, Wael, Acoustic Simulation in School Architectural Design, 8th International Conference on Modelling Simulation and Applied Optimization, ICMSAO 2019, Bahrain, IEEE, IET, 14-17 April 2019. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8880455

• Abdelhameed, Wael, Industrial Revolution Effect on the Architectural Design, International Conference on the 4th Industrial Revolution‎, Bahrain, IEEE, 19-21 February 2019. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8894774

• Abdelhameed, Wael. Is BIM Too Detailed for Conceptual Designing? A Case Study. In Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference, pp. 686-701. Springer, Cham, 2021. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-89912-7_53

2-     Sustainability and Environmental factors on Urban and Neighbourhood levels

• Abdelhameed, Wael. Socioeconomic Concept in Neighbourhood Planning: A case study. In International Conference in Emerging Technologies for Sustainability and Intelligent Systems, ICETSIS Conference, Applied Science University ASU, Bahrain. IEEE, June 22-23, 2022. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9888882

• Abdelhameed, Wael A. VR in Heritage Documentation: Using Microsimulation Modelling. In Intelligent Computing, pp. 1115-1123. Springer, Cham, 2021.‎ doi: ‎10.1007/978-3-030-80126-7_78‎ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-80126-7_78