Dalila Loudyi

Dalila Loudyi
Université Hassan II Casablanca | FSAC · Department of Environmental Engineering

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Hydraulics, Hydrology, Numerical modelling, Urban sewage systems, Flood risk management, Integrated water resources management, Water governance, Environmental management

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Along the Moroccan coast, swell is generally unrelated to the weather on the coast. It is, most often, the consequence of barometric depressions passing between the Azores Archipelago and Iceland. North Atlantic swells are the most frequent, and they are characterized by fairly long wavelengths (period of 10–18 s) and are refracted on all or part o...
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Women in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry and academia are widely underrepresented as they represent no more than 10% of the total employed workforce and far less in leadership positions. The construction sector is a booming industry and AEC fields experience a significant shortage in terms of workforce hence integratin...
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The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the remote potential of Building Information Modeling (BIM) to enable Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) operators to sustain work under the resulting challenging circumstances. Some studies pointed out the post-COVID-19 context of BIM use in several regions, but none in Africa. Therefore, based on a...
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In recent decades, Morocco has experienced a strong and rapid increase in water demand due to many challenges such as population growth, urbanization sprawl, and economic development. Besides, climate change and its negative impact on natural water resources availability have put the supply–demand balance in jeopardy. This imperative has created a...
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Using Building Information Modelling (BIM) helped enhance the environmental performances of building and civil infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle. However, the construction industry continues to be one of the most impactful industries on the environment, hence the imminent need for further research in this area. The choice of the r...
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Insufficient freshwater resources and exceeding water demand are significant challenges facing water utilities. Consequently, reliable and accurate short-term prediction is an important tool to efficiently control and manage an existing urban water supply system. Obviously, several studies have been presented in the literature with the aim of impro...
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Purpose The unexpected spread of COVID-19 rapidly switched from a health crisis to an economic one. The Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry experienced drastic impacts, especially in Africa. Several studies investigated COVID-19 impacts on the AEC industry, but very few were conducted in Africa. This study aims to cover this...
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The estuary ecosystem’s health and ecological integrity are essential for preserving environmental quality, habitats, and economic activity. The main objective of the present study is to comprehend the wave hydrodynamic impact on the Oued Sebou estuary, which is situated in the Kenitra region on Morocco’s north Atlantic coast in North Africa. Speci...
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From ancient flood management practices driven by agricultural activities to dam’s policy for water resources management including flood protection, to the National Strategy for Natural Disaster Risk Integrated Management; Morocco has come a long way in flood risk management. This chapter describes the recurrent flooding phenomenon plaguing the cou...
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Under COVID-19 circumstances, the majority of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) contractors around the world found themselves handcuffed, facing the sudden restrictive measures to be mandatorily applied in worksites imposing a necessary shift in the typical practices for building. Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies ass...
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Morocco is undertaking tremendous actions toward reducing the impact of climate change especially in terms of energy efficiency and building sector adaptation. However, until now neither Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been used in this context nor an analysis of Building's Life Cycle Carbon Emissions (BLCCE) of affordable housing has been...
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Casablanca city is the economic capital of Morocco. With its 4.36 million inhabitants, the city has known significant pressure in terms of housing and related necessary infrastructure and utility services. To take control over a looming informal urban sprawl, a Master Plan for Urban Development, which is referred to by the acronym SDAU from its Fre...
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From ancient flood management practices driven by agricultural activities to dam’s policy for water resources management including flood protection, to the National Strategy for Natural Disaster Risk Integrated Management; Morocco has come a long way in flood risk management. This chapter describes the recurrent flooding phenomenon plaguing the cou...
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With the continuous socioeconomic development of Morocco, water resources are being depleted rapidly whereas water demand is largely increasing. This situation has led to a structural unbalance in water resources budget with a continuous trend to worsen over time. Questions have arisen about how water should be allocated and which criteria should b...
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Water scarcity and sustainability considerations have brought many countries to seek methods for reducing losses in their water supply and distribution systems. In cities, most of the water utilities are indeed addressing the performance of water distribution networks (WDN) by implementing technologies for leakage detection and reparation. In Casab...
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Building information modeling is an emerging technology that is getting more extend worldwide. However, many operators still have limited knowledge about its real meaning and potential, which is considered as an important challenge to its implementation. Therefore, based on a survey involving 370 AEC operators, experts’ workshop and data collection...
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According to the 5th assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the temperature is projected to rise over the 21st century under all assessed emissions scenarios while precipitation will likely decrease, thus reducing renewable surface water and groundwater resources in most dry subtropical regions such as Morocco. M...
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Floods are among the main 21st century challenges related to climate change. They are responsible of about two thirds of the total human casualties incurred by natural disasters in the past 40 years and account for about one third of their related economic damages (IRDR, 2015; IFI, 2016). Hence, flood risk management is nowadays part of most govern...
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Considering the significant operational and economic potential of Building Information Modeling (BIM), many countries have already set fundamental strategies toward its implementation including developing common BIM standards and guidelines leading to enhancing the productivity of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry and drivin...
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Unlike other water river basins in Morocco, Oum Er-Rbia basin is extensively used to meet both local and regional water demands. Agricultural activities carried out within the basin account for 21% of the national agricultural added value. Moreover, an additional 181 Mm3/year is transferred to neighboring basins, namely Tensift and Bouregreg to com...
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The history of floods asserts the importance of the disasters caused by urban floods that hit Casablanca. In 2010, 2013 and 2014 the city experienced many floods that had considerable impacts on its infrastructures. In 2011, a study by the World Bank assessed that, for the period 2010-2030, the net present value of potential economic losses due to...
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Water and energy are highly interdependent. On one hand, water is used for extracting, refining and producing fuels, cooling power plants and producing hydropower, on the other hand, energy is also used to catch, convey and treat drinking and irrigation water. In addition, an important quantity of energy is also used for the collection, treatment a...
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Climate change is nowadays a major challenge facing mankind. Yet difficult to assess, the consequences of this phenomenon are multiple, irreversible and exceed the response capacity of ecosystems that may be damaged or permanently destroyed. Morocco has experienced a significant change in precipitation with increasing frequency and intensity of ext...
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The sanitation system in Algeria requires a mastery of the functioning of the collection network and treatment using performance indicators that identify gaps and to develop solutions for better wastewater management. This work aims to identify the performance indicators that are chosen on the basis of the problems often encountered. The referred p...
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Of all the groundwater flow models widely available, the U.S. Geological Survey three-dimensional modular finite-difference, groundwater flow model, MODFLOW, is regarded by many as the most widely used by government agencies and consultancy firms. The model was first developed in 1984 and since then many changes, updates and corrections have been i...
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In the past two decades, Bouregreg and Chaouia river basin was disrupted with severe floods. Therefore, the Hydraulic Basin Agency of the Bouregreg and Chaouia (HBABC) has undertaken many actions for flood protection and prevention at regional scale, consistently with the National Plan for Flood Protection Framework directives. This paper describes...
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The mathematical development of a two-dimensional finite volume model for groundwater flow is described. Based on the hydraulic equations for saturated flow, the model deploys an improved least squares gradient reconstruction technique to evaluate the gradient at the control volume face, derived from the application of the finite volume formulation...

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