Proceedings of the 3^rd World Congress
on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CSEE'18)

Prof. M. Hesham El Naggar
University of Western Ontario, Canada
ICGRE Keynote

Prof. El Naggar is a Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering at Western University, Canada. He is Associate Editor of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal. He published 400 technical papers/book chapters on foundations, soil-structure interaction and geotechnical earthquake engineering; and consulted on major projects worldwide. He received numerous awards including: Stermac, Meyerhof, Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium Speaker, Western Faculty Scholar, Outstanding Teaching, and Research Excellence Awards. He is an elected Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada and the American Society for Civil Engineers. He also received the 2015 Ontario Professional Engineers Medal for Engineering Research & Development.

Topic of Keynote:
Geo-Structural Nonlinear Analysis of Piles for Performance Based Design

Prof. Hany El Naggar
Dalhousie University, Canada
ICGRE Keynote / Congress Chair

A/Prof. Hany El Naggar is an Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Dalhousie University with more than 20 years of experience in civil construction, geotechnical and structural engineering and research in Canada and overseas. He has participated in several geotechnical and structural investigations, and is experienced in analysis and design of foundations and soil-structure interaction of buried infrastructure. Prof. El Naggar and his research team has investigated the soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects around buried infrastructure; explored innovative use of tire derived aggregate (TDA) as a buffer zone to create stress arching and reduce demand on rigid culverts, proposed an earth pressure reduction system using geogrid reinforced platform bridging system to reduce stresses on buried utilities, and developed innovative “cellular” precast concrete pipe system. Also, he studied the effect of new structures on pre-existing tunnels considering their current deteriorated condition under static and seismic loading conditions. Moreover, he has developed a simplified technique to account for the group Effect in pile dynamics; and closed form solutions for the moments and thrusts in jointed and un-jointed composite tunnel lining systems, designed several foundation systems ranging from machine foundations subjected to dynamic loads to raft foundations for underground structure, as well as several tunnels and underground structures in Canada, Europe, Middle East, and the United States. The findings from Prof. El Naggar’s research have been reported in more than 90 technical publications covering both experimental and numerical work in the fields of soil-structure interaction, buried infrastructure and concrete pipes.

Prof. El Naggar is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Outstanding Teaching Award from the Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University. In addition, he received the 2005-2006 Outstanding Teaching Award from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Western. Prof. El Naggar won the 2006 L. G. Soderman Award, the 2005 R.M. Quigley Award, and the 2004 Milos Novak Memorial Award. Prof. El Naggar is the current chair of the Buried Structures Committee of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (CSCE); also, he is the ex-chair the of the New Brunswick chapter of the Canadian Geotechnical Society; he is also member of the technical committee on buried structures of the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code (CHBDC). In addition, he is the current editor in chief of the International Journal of Civil Infrastructure. He is a member of several professional associations including the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia; the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO); the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE), the Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS); the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE); and the Engineers Syndicate, Egypt.

Topic of Keynote:
Performance of Soil Metal Arch Structures

Prof. Anas Ghadouani
University of Western Ontario, Canada
ICGRE Keynote

Anas Ghadouani is passionate about all aspects of water engineering and management. With more than 20 years of experience, which took has taken him over the world while researching water in a wide and diverse range of environments, Anas has developed a unique integrated and solution focused approach for the study of water issues. Anas has demonstrated strong leadership in teaching and learning as well as research nationally and internationally. He has won multiple awards and is an active contributor to public discourse about water related issues, via mainstream and social media. Anas provides expert advice to numerous organisations in Australia and around the world, and he also serves on the editorial board of the journals Hydrology and Earth System Sciences and Frontiers. Anas is currently a Professor and Programme Chair of Environmental Engineering at The University of Western Australia.

Topic of Keynote:
Water for the Twenty First Century, Can Small Solutions Help Tackle One of the Biggest Problems Facing Humanity?

Prof. Timothy J. McCarthy
University of Wollongong, Australia
ICSENM Keynote

Professor Tim McCarthy was appointed to the Chair of Structural Steel and Design in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Wollongong in December 2004. Prior to that he was Lecturer then Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester in UK (1985‐2004). In addition to his research into sustainable construction Tim is passionate about engineering education.

Tim is the Director of the Engineering and Mathematics Education Research Group at UOW. He is the Principal investigator on a major research project into the use of cold formed steel in mid-rise residential buildings at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre.

In 2011, Tim was co-leader when Team UOW and gained entry into the Solar Decathlon China 2013 competition. Team UOW were the first team from Australia to gain entry into a Solar Decathlon, and took a unique approach to the competition by being the first to demonstrate how to retrofit an existing home. The final of the competition was held in Datong, China in August 2013, and Team UOW was successful in winning first place! In doing so they also achieved the highest ever overall score in any Solar Decathlon competition.

Tim is leading another Solar Decathlon challenge. This time Team UOW is heading to Dubai in late 2018 with a new net zero energy house. The new house, dubbed Desert Rose, aims to be both energy efficient and dementia friendly – a home suitable for ageing occupants as they enter life’s twilight years. The aim is to develop architecture and home automation technology that ubiquitously but unobtrusively supports wellbeing and independent living while looking after the planet. We are, once again, the only team from Australia to have gained entry to the Solar Decathlon Middle East 2018 competition. We will design, build and transport our Desert Rose house to Dubai to compete against 21 other teams from across the globe.

Topic of Keynote:
Advocating for Net-Zero Energy Sustainable Houses through the International Solar Decathlon Competition

Prof. Brigitte Helmreich
Technical University of Munich, Germany
ICESDP Keynote

Brigitte Helmreich received her PhD from Technische Universität München (TUM) in Chemistry in 1992. In 2010, she was awarded her Postdoctoral lecture qualification (“Habilitation” and Teaching Certificate for the field Urban Water Systems Engineering. Between 2012 and 2013 she served as Interim Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering at TUM. In 2014, she has been appointed as Associate Professor at TUM. Her research interests are wastewater treatment engineering; state-of-the-art characterization of natural and effluent organic matter and emerging trace organic chemicals (pharmaceutical residues, household chemicals) in natural and engineered systems; monitoring of organic and inorganic pollutants in roof and road runoff; design of runoff treatment systems; water reuse; rainwater harvesting; advanced oxidation processes; energetic considerations in wastewater treatment systems.

Topic of Keynote:
New Approaches in Urban Water Systems Engineering

Prof. János Juhász
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
ICTE Keynote

János Juhász was born in Budapest in 1964. He is an associate professor at the Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He also works as a forensic expert in the field of road safety. He deals with analysis of road accidents involving personal injuries for the Police and the Prosecution.

Following the university courses, he received a scholarship from the French Government and he worked as a young researcher in the microscopic simulation of road traffic at the INRETS in Paris between 1992 and 1996. Then he became assistant professor, lecturer at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Between 2000 and 2004 he was invited professor at the INSA de Lyon, where he lectured applied informatics to the students of EURINSA.

He studies the pedestrian’s and driver’s behaviour and their interactions. He received PhD degree in transportation sciences in 2007.

Between 2008 and 2010 he worked at the Institute for Transport Sciences Non Profit Ltd. as a senior researcher.

He is a management committee member of the COST Action TU1407, in this project he studies the motorcyclist accidents.

His main research field is the road safety, particularly the driver behaviour and the safety of the vulnerable road users and the impact of the penetration of autonomous vehicles on road safety.

Topic of Keynote:
The Impact of the Autonomous Vehicles’ Penetration on the Road Accidents Involving Vulnerable Road Users