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There are many factors that impact and influence the success of an urban space. Numerous physical and social environment components and location of the given space in the city are all key components that play part. This study however, mainly focuses on one physical environmental aspect known as the thermal environment. Thermal environments are components of physical environments that dictate the human thermal comfort. The control of this comfort is conducted through exchange of energy b...

"Future proofing cities is one of the most researched and pressing topic of this century due to climate change. This research is focused on Urban Heat Island, one of the many issues faced by the mega city of Karachi, due to climate change. Although Karachi has been faced with this concern for years, however, it was emphasized and highlighted during the recent heat waves of 2015 and 2016. The primary methodology used was simulation using ENVI-Met software to access how the temperatures can be ...

Building façade contributes to a major share of energy expenditure in residential as well as commercial buildings. There is a need to look for alternate options of façade design, in order to replace the glazing option contributing to greenhouse gases and global warming. This dissertation investigates the use of horizontal louvers in increasing the energy efficiency of an office cabin in Dubai, facing south direction. The base case is simulated for further comparative simulations. Fixed and ...

The recent growth in the aviation industry has led to the highest necessity for the development in designing the airports. Statistics are available for a few airports, but there is no comprehensive base of information on how airport terminal buildings operate or the conditions their user experience. The major aim of this research is to design a framework for analyzing the performance, cost and flexibility in terminal design of airports; to do so the main studies has been done exploring fact...

Benefits Management field was first introduced in the late 20th Century to emerge as one of the most growing fields of interest in research and practice. The concept of Benefits Realization Management has become an integral part of project, program and portfolio management. The rationale of the concept is to align an organization strategy with its operations and projects execution. The role of Benefits Realization Management practices in projects life cycle varies from pre-initiation to post-...

The dissertation study was conducted to arrive at in-depth understanding of the concept of innovation in general and innovation labs specifically, the different challenges that face innovation labs and the factors that lead to successful delivery of innovations. The dissertation aims at improving the level of performance of the newly set innovation labs in the United Arab Emirates. This can be achieved through the understanding of the key elements that enable innovation labs to successfully d...

Agile project practices and methods have gained more popularity and broadly used due to various benefits. The agile project management sound alternative to the traditional project management and its methods characterised as being flexible and the project is done in iterative approach where deliverables or outcomes are expected at the end of each sprint. It is reported that agile project practices have both negative and positive impact on the project team productivity. The main purpose of...

Understanding gender inequality is the first step of addressing the evident issue that resides within our society, workplace, and world. In this study, we are looking at gender inequality in the UAE’s construction sector, and taking it a step further by looking at underlying factors that aid to gender inequality in the design of construction projects in the UAE. In this research we are using mixed method methodology using grounded theory for our research. The approach of this study begins wi...

This thesis is about the impact of the risk management on the legal challenges of the fast-track construction projects. The focus of the study is to identify the risk factors from different stake holders (client, consultant, contractor and sub-contractor) involves in the execution of the projects and could impact on the legal challenges of the fast track project in Dubai and to develop the operative risk management framework to resolve the risk factors and their impact on the factors of legal...

Corporate governance has emerged during the last two decades as one of the main concerns in higher education sector. Researchers and practitioners perceive that maintaining best practice of corporate governance should result in a better institutional performance and subsequently bring back shareholders values benefits over a long term. Though the term “Corporate Governance” has been widely researched in public and private enterprises, little attention has been given to examine governance prac...

Projects always having a limited time period and each of them are versatile in concept. With due regards especially construction sector facing a difficulties facing many problems but one of the major is rework. This all is due to limitless requirements and unforeseen circumstances. Therefore this project management dissertation is about digging deep causes of project reworks as well as its mitigation ways consisting of literature review which ends up with conceptual model and developed 5 hypo...

Social media administrations, for example, Facebook and Twitter and online networking facilitating sites, for example, Flickr and YouTube have turned out to be progressively famous in later a long time. One key variable to their allure worldwide is that these destinations and administrations permit individuals to express and impart their insights, likes, and hates, unreservedly and straightforwardly. The assessments posted extent from reprimanding government officials to talking about top not...

The number of smartphone users in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has increased by 25% in the last four years (Statista.Com 2018c). Government entities in the UAE aim to provide their services through various digital channels, including smartphones among others. This offering will allow customers to use their preferred digital channels and cover the largest customers’ segment. As life is accelerated and people are seeking a quick and efficient way to consume services, government entities becom...

Since the beginning of the digital age, the amount of information has increased significantly, and the relationships among the different types of information have become more sophisticated. The fact that the number of diverse users is growing urges researchers to benefit from this information and develop techniques that analyse customers’ experiences to meet their needs. As far as e-government is concerned, the number of structured and unstructured webpages of electronic services has increase...

With the trend towards globalisation, multinational corporations continue to seek global diversity. As such it is imperative to better understand the importance and impact of organisational variables such as leadership and culture on organisational performance and productivity. Globalisation and transferability of human capital across the globe has stimulated an increasing need to develop global managers who understand the implications of cross-cultural work environments and are able to effec...

Increased human populations, rapid economic developments, and climate change have driven many countries in the Middle East to suffer acute water shortages. Additionally, they have caused a decline in the supply and quality of water and led to an increase in the cost of its production. In the last three decades, the United Arab Emirates has experienced rapid urbanization due to steady economic growth. Expansion of the economy is accompanied by a sharp rise in population, which has put pressure...

The main of the study used to identify the influence of training program outcome on the total quality management of the nuclear power plant in the UAE. Several sub-variables were identified to ease the process of reaching the research objective. For the purposes of this objective, a quantitative methodology was used. A five-point Likert Scale questionnaire was developed and distributed to the employees of Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC). The sample selection was done purposively wi...

The study began with the objective to understand the influence that the cost incurred has on the critical success factors of the SMRs. SMRs are a promising technology in the nuclear sector which can provide clean energy while being safer than the large reactors. Thus, to realize the study’s objectives, the primary independent variable (Cost Incurred) and the primary dependent variable (Success Factors) were categorized into four sub-variables each. Cost incurred was measured via the four sub-...

It has been concluded by several studies that EOT claims are among the most disputed issues in the construction industry due to lack, misunderstanding, or wrong application of relevant contract provisions. In the case of escalation to litigation path, the UAE CTC will be the framework upon which the ruling will be based. This will also be another potential area of further dispute as the concept and mechanism of EOT claim evaluation is not clearly identified in the CTC and thus it will be depe...