Books
Major, M.D. (2018). The Syntax of City Space: American Urban Grids. London/New York: Routledge.
Refereed Journal Papers
Furlan, R., A. Petruccioli, M.D. Major, S. Zaina, S. Zaina, M. Al Saeed, D. Saleh. (2018). “The urban regeneration of west-bay, the business district of Doha (State of Qatar): A transit-oriented development enhancing livability,” Journal of Urban Management, Open Access, 16 November 2018, ISSN: 2226-5856.
Ibrahim, H. (2018). “Design and Performance Analysis of a Regenerative Evaporative Cooler for Cooling of Buildings in Arid Climates,” Building and Environment, Vol. 142, PP. 1-10, Elsevier, June 2018, Published July 2018, ISSN: 03601323.
Fadli, F; Kutty, N et al. (2018), Extending Indoor Open Street Mapping Environments to Navigable 3D CityGML Building Models: Emergency Response Assessment. ISPRS Annals/Archives, Delft, Dec 2018.
Boguslawski, P., Mahdjoubi, L., Fadli, F. and Zverovich, V (2018) Dynamic approach for determining evacuees’ distribution and optimal routing in hazardous environments. Automation in Construction, Oct 2018, Pp. 110-126, V42.-Elsevier.
Itani, M., Ghaddar, N., Ghali, K., Ouahrani, D., Khater, B., (2018). Significance of PCM Arrangement in Cooling Vest for Enhancing Comfort at Varied Working Periods and Climates: Modeling and Experimentation. Applied Thermal Engineering, 145, 772-790.
Al Touma, A., Ouahrani, D. (2018). The Selection of Brise Soleil Shading Optical Properties for Energy Conservation and Glare Removal: A Case Study in Qatar, Journal of Building Engineering, 20, 510-519.
Al Touma, A., Ouahrani, D. (2018). Performance assessment of evaporatively-cooled window driven by solar chimney in hot and humid climates, Solar Energy, 169, 187-195.
Al Touma, A., Ouahrani, D. (2018). Quantifying savings in spaces energy demands and CO2 emissions by shading and lighting controls in the Arabian Gulf, Journal of Building Engineering, 18, 429-437.
Itani, M., Ghaddar, N., Ouahrani, D., Ghali, K., & Khater, B. (2018). An Optimal Two-Bout Strategy with Phase Change Material Cooling Vests to Improve Comfort in Hot Environment. Journal of Thermal Biology, 72, 10-25.
Ouahrani, D., Al Touma, A., (2018). Selection of slat separation-to-width ratio of brise-soleil shading considering energy savings, CO2emissions and visual comfort – a case study in Qatar, Energy and Buildings, 165, 440-450.
Conference Proceedings
Abdullah Al Mamun, Abdelrahman Khaled Abouzeid, Hussein Mohamed Al-Yafay, Shahbaz Hussain, Ahmad A.M. (2018) Sustainable Transportation in Qatar. International Conference on Innovations in Engineering, Technology and Sciences (ICIETS). 20th & 21st September 2018.
Fadli, F. et al. (2018). Extending indoor open street mapping environments to navigable 3D citygml building models: Emergency response assessment, ISPRS TC IV Mid-Term Symposium on 3D Spatial Information Science - The Engine of Change; Delft; Netherlands; 1 October 2018 through 5 October 2018; Code 140766.
Fadli, F. et al. (2018). Extending indoor open street mapping environments to navigable 3D citygml building models: Emergency response assessment, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives 2018 -NA.
Al Touma, A., Ouahrani, D. (2018). Improved Human Thermal Comfort with Indoor PCM-Enhanced Tiles in Living Spaces in the Arabian Gulf, E3S Web of Conferences, Volume 57 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20185704001.
Itani, M., Ghaddar, N., Ghali, K., Khater, B., Ouahrani, D., & Chakroun, W. (2018). PCM Cooling Vests of Different Melting Temperatures in a Two-Bout Strategy to Enhance Comfort and Sensation: An Experimental Study. Presented at the 2018 ASHRAE Annual Conference, Houston, Texas.
Kassem, M., Ouahrani, D. (2018) Identifying and Analyzing BIM Specialist Roles using a Competency-based Approach, Proceedings of the Creative Construction Conference (2018), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Conference Presentations
Fadli, F. et al. (2018). Interactive Explorations of Architectural-Structural Considerations on Computational Platform; Qatar Sustainability Awards 2018, Doha.
Fadli, F., Zaina, S., Kutty, N., Bahrami, P., Guest, J., and Moen, C., (2018). Tall Buildings; towards an Architectural-Structural Topology Optimization; ARC’18, Doha, Qatar.
Fadli, F. (2018) “Architectural Topology Optimization” or the Next Generation Building [NGB] Design Approach: Green Architecture Techniques and Impact on Urban Livability; Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Fadli, F., Bahrami, P., Zaina, S., and Shaat, A. (2018). Tall Buildings Topology Optimization; From Computation to Fabrication; Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Major, M.D., Al-Nabet, S.F. (2018) “Buildings Don’t Bounce: The Design Paradox of Urban Resilience,” Congress for New Urbanism 26, 16-19 May 2018, Savannah, Georgia USA, https://www.cnu.org/new-urban-research/papers.
Major, M.D., Fadli, F., Tannous, H.O., Mirincheva, V. (2018). The Spatial Logic of Doha: Using Space Syntax to Enhance Safety in Designing for Vehicular and Pedestrian Networks at the Macro- and Micro-scale of the Urban Environment. International Traffic Safety Conference 2018, 26 November 2018, Doha, Qatar.
Major, M.D. (2018). “Buildings Don’t Bounce: The Design Paradox of Urban Resilience,” Green Engineering Conference, Qatar Society of Engineers, Katara Cultural Village, Doha, Qatar, 23 April 2018.