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Design and Construction of Smart Cities

Toward Sustainable Community

  • Provides emphasis on important design and construction aspects of Smart Cities
  • Showcases the benefits of the implementation of Smart Cities
  • Covers real case studies of Smart City Applications

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Table of contents (42 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Enhancing Progressive Collapse Resistance in Existing Buildings

    • Karim Hammad, Ibrahim Lotfy, Mohamed Naiem
    Pages 39-46
  3. Damage Assessment and Sustainability of RC Building in New Cairo City Considering Probable Earthquake Scenarios

    • Abdelaziz Mehaseb Elganzory, Balthasar Novák, Ahmed Mohamed Yousry
    Pages 47-55
  4. Review of Seismic Provisions: Is Egypt Earthquake Safe?

    • Mohamed Afifi, Reem Ahmed
    Pages 56-64
  5. Identification of Wastes in Construction Projects: Case Study of Porto Sokhna Island Project

    • Islam El-Sayed, Ahmed Abaza, Alyaa Kamel, Rana Khallaf
    Pages 73-79
  6. Smart City Developments Using a BIM-Oriented Workflow

    • Daniel Sorial, Mahmoud El Khafif
    Pages 88-96
  7. States DoT Roads and Bridges Network Inspection and Maintenance Practices

    • Amin K. Akhnoukh, Amr Abdel Hameed, Abanoub Atteya
    Pages 97-102
  8. BIM and GIS Synergy for Smart Cities

    • Moustafa Baraka
    Pages 103-111
  9. Tolerance Management, Failure, and Defects in Construction

    • Mohamed Kamel, Omar Habib, Mohamed Farahat, Rana Khallaf
    Pages 112-120
  10. GIS-BIM Data Integration Towards a Smart Campus

    • Yousif Ward, Salem Morsy, Adel El-Shazly
    Pages 132-139
  11. Development of Wind and Flood Vulnerability Index for Residential Buildings

    • Carol Massarra, Carol Friedland, Amin Akhnoukh
    Pages 151-159
  12. Smart Cities - Policy and Regulatory Frameworks

    • Mahmoud El Khafif, Nora Salem
    Pages 160-169

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About this book

This book focuses on how to maintain environmental sustainability as one of its main principles, and it addresses how smart cities serve to diminish wastes and maintain natural resources by having clean green energy that is operated by new smart technology designs. Living in a smart city is not something of the future anymore, it is here, and it is being implemented all over the world. A smart city uses different types of electronic Internet of things (IoT) sensors to collect data and then use these data to manage assets and resources efficiently. The smart city concept integrates information and communication technology (ICT), and various physical devices connected to the IoT network to optimize the efficiency of city operations and services and achieve sustainable solutions to allow us to grow with proper management of our resources.

Smart sustainable structures and infrastructures face the need of urban areas due to the growth of populations while in the same timesave our environment. To achieve this, we need to revisit the conventional methods in design and construction and the conventional materials which are used now to optimize the design and provide smart solutions. In the past few years, the consumption of resources has been massive, and the waste produced from that consumption has been inconceivable.  This is causing environmental degradation, which produces many environmental challenges, such as global climate change, excessive fossil fuel dependency and the growing demand for energy.


As well as, discussing the challenges facing the civil engineering design and construction of smart cities components and presenting concepts and insight from experts and researchers from different civil engineering disciplines., this book explains how to construct buildings and special structures and how to manage and monitor energy. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Post Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

    Ibrahim El Dimeery

  • Civil Engineering Program, German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

    Moustafa Baraka, Mona B. Anwar, Mahmoud El Khafif, Nagy Hanna

  • Construction Management Department, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA

    Syed M. Ahmed, Amin Akhnoukh

  • Information and Electronics Technology, German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

    Amr T. Abdel Hamid

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Design and Construction of Smart Cities

  • Book Subtitle: Toward Sustainable Community

  • Editors: Ibrahim El Dimeery, Moustafa Baraka, Syed M. Ahmed, Amin Akhnoukh, Mona B. Anwar, Mahmoud El Khafif, Nagy Hanna, Amr T. Abdel Hamid

  • Series Title: Sustainable Civil Infrastructures

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64217-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64216-7Published: 24 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64217-4Published: 23 January 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2366-3405

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-3413

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 394

  • Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 131 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Earth Sciences, general, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences

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