Amal Bakchan
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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 events (e.g., disasters, development crises)
- Infrastructure resilience in extreme events
- Responsible management entities (RMEs) of decentralized wastewater systems in rural, underserved communities
- Regionalization solutions for decentralized systems and sustainable O&M
- Construction of onsite wastewater treatment systems in rural communities
- Workforce development
- Utility management and governance
- Integrated modeling using mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative analyses)
- Stakeholder perceptions and community engagement for equitable service provision
- 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