Amal Bakchan

Assistant Professor

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Affiliations

  • Department of Construction Science

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Education

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering

The University of Texas at Austin, 2021

M.Sc. in Engineering Management

American University of Beirut, 2010

B.E. in Computer Engineering

Beirut Arab University, 2008

Scholarly Interests

Water and wastewater infrastructure systems

  • Socio-technical infrastructure systems management in extreme environments (e.g., disasters, development crises)
  • Responsible management entities (RMEs) of decentralized wastewater systems in rural communities
  • Regionalization solutions for decentralized systems and sustainable O&M
  • Optimization of Construction of decentralized systems in rural communities
  • Workforce development and retention
  • Utility management and governance
  • Integrated modeling using mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative analyses)
  • Stakeholder perceptions and community-driven approaches
  • Circular Water Economy

Construction waste (CW) system

  • Estimation of CW generation using empirical approaches and BIM-based automation
  • Sustainable CW management through reduction, reuse, and recycling approaches
  • Circular construction economy