Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment

This volume brings together outstanding contributions to the Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, held at the Marina Hotel Kuwait, near Kuwait City. The Proceedings collects 29 papers on a range of engineering and materials challenges, and best practices, addressing development of new sustainable building materials, performance improvement of structures and tall buildings, developing monitoring and analysis techniques and frameworks for existing infrastructure under environmental effects, development of long-term sustainability plans for building stock, and development of energy efficient buildings in the gulf region. The Conference was organized by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, and Kuwait University.

Prof. Oral Buyukozturk is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Prof. Walid Bouhamra is a professor of chemical engineering at Kuwait University; Prof. Ali Bumajdad is a professor of chemistry at Kuwait University; Dr. Osamah A. Alsayegh is executive director at the Energy and Building Research Center, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research; and Dr. Hasan Kamal is a research scientist with the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.