Mahmoud Ghoneem

Mahmoud Ghoneem
Helwan University · Faculty of Fine Arts

PhD

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Introduction
Dr. Ghoneem is Associate Professor in Architecture Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University in Egypt. Since he obtained his PhD of architecture in 2011, which concluded to create a methodology for Achieving the Environmental Equilibrium inside Cities, He had many Diplomas concerning about Environmental Engineering (AUC, 2011) and Urban Management for climate change (IHS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2014) and participate in many international conferences and workshops.
Additional affiliations
March 2016 - present
Helwan University
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
February 2011 - January 2016
Helwan University
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Education
June 2014 - July 2014
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Field of study
  • Urban Management Tools for Climate Change
January 2013 - April 2016
International Business School of Scandinavia
Field of study
  • Business Administration
January 2011 - December 2012
The American University in Cairo
Field of study
  • Environmental Engineering Management

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Publications (19)
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Natural disasters are inevitable and it is almost impossible to fully recoup the damage caused by the disasters. But it is possible to minimize the potential risk by developing disaster early warning strategies, methods using the new technology applications which play a crucial role in efficient mitigation and management of disasters. This paper d...
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Climate change was appeared as a phenomenon since the early 19th Century, and since then non serious international commitment was conducted to reduce its rapid impacts, however after 1980th many countries made extreme efforts to document and understand climate change complex impacts and how to deal with it, but those efforts marked by successes and...
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The rapid urbanization in the last decades and the progress in the national economy in many developing countries, have emerged many environmental problems, which had a great impact on their local environment and at the same time it affects the global environment, the greater city of Cairo begin to suffer of the effects of the environmental pollutio...
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Piezoelectric floors generate many microwatts up to many watts per step, depending on space pedestrians’ frequency and piezoelectric technology. Although there are a number of earnest researches that have focused on harvesting power from piezoelectric floors tiles, the piezoelectric application is still hindered by many factors, which leads to the...
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Occupant satisfaction with indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in office buildings has been completely related to self-estimated job performance and, probably, to overall company productivity. Poor indoor environmental circumstances can negatively affect occupants’ physical health through poor air quality, extreme temperatures, excess humidity, or i...
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This book explains how learning from past mistakes in urban design can help to enhance sustainable cities and how the principles of Green Urbanism can yield more resilient urban settlements. Environmental design is a fundamental principle in shaping cities. However, environmental challenges like increased resource consumption, water degradation and...
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The main objective of this paper is to promote the use of regenerative architecture as a thinking paradigm for sustainable architectural design on a larger scale throughout studying its concept, history, implementation strategies and the fundamental principles that should be considered in the design process. The research methodology consists of a t...
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History is one of the main aspects that shapes a country’s culture and leaves its traces on the built environment in the form of an architectural heritage. Such a heritage records the existence of humans, their past endeavours and in doing so preserves their cultures and traditions for future generations and contributes to the formation of their id...
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities' Identity Through Architecture and Arts, Cairo, Egypt 2017
Conference Paper
The Frequency and severity of Disasters are increasing globally especially climate related hazard which had been changed, exposing more people and a greater value of assets to disasters (As it can be the main reason for undermining economic growth and development as well). Nowadays many (developed) countries adopted the idea of planning the city fo...
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History is a way of extending human memory beyond the human life span. It is a place provides a window into the ways natural and social processes interact through time, and how planners have intervened. Civilizations and governments rise and fall; traditions, values, and policies change; but the nature environment of each city remains an enduring f...
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More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, making the creation of a healthy urban environment a major policy priority. The city or urban area is a set of infrastructure, other structures, and buildings that create an environment to serve a population living within a relatively small and confined geographic area. The lives and liv...
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City visual quality refers to the overall aesthetics of an area or a field of view. It includes aspects such as size, shape, color, texture, and general composition, as well as the relationships between these elements. Aesthetic features often consist of unique or prominent natural or man-made attributes or several small features that, when viewed...
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During the Arab spring and in the time that followed, graffiti became an important part of Egypt's revolution. Graffiti has been used as a form of expression by many Egyptian's to show their frustration and anger with the current political situation. It has sprung up all around Cairo. Graffiti has appeared in many different places in the city and i...
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The Great cities center all over the world have common features in its structure, Such as The Historic district that represent the oldest part of the city, the Central Business district "CBD", the Main of public transportation networks, and many other urban components. Those mentioned urban components including Public spaces, such as the Central Pa...
Thesis
In the way for the development that the third world countries were seeking for, they have emerged a number of environmental problems associated with them which had the greatest impact on the environment of various kinds. And In Egypt one of those Consequences is the infringement over many natural areas inside these cities. The goal of research is...
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There is no doubt that any community needs rules that organizing their relationship and prevents the rights for everyone in this community. Those rules changes from community to another, according to their culture, their needs and their dreams. And we can't find communities having the same objectives and rules , those rules which we call " regula...

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I appreciate if anyone Can Suggest / Provide me with a resource that I can use to get a list of C3 & C4 plants in Egypt?
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What are the Threats that hinder the investments in the Construction sector in the Egyptian Sector, Although it considered one of the largest markets in Egypt? and  How many Small and medium sized companies (in the construction Sector) contributes in the Egyptian Market? Especially the Architecture consulting Firms?
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The importance of this question is to determine the different roles and its responsibilities in Designing and conducting Climate change action plan.

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