ICE Qatar Learned Event - 15th October 2018 - Rotana West Bay

Overview

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

To celebrate ICE is running a year of events and activities that show how civil engineering has for over 200 years transformed the way we live.

This month our speaker Dr. Alex Amato will be delivering his lecture on the value of project sustainability assessment systems.

Speaker’s Biography

Dr. Alex Amato

Dr. Alex Amato has over 40 years’ experience in the built environment. He has worked in both the private and public sectors in the UK, SE Asia and now in the Middle East. Since gaining his PhD at Oxford Brookes University over 20 years ago, he has sought to resolve. His work covers a wide gamut, from design, to construction, product development and research. In Qatar he spent the first three years providing sustainable consultancy within Davis Langdon but for the last six years he has held the position of Head of Sustainability at the Qatar Green Building Council, part of Qatar Foundation. Here he has helped deliver an expanding research and education programme. In particular, the development of the first Passivhaus in the GCC Region, and research with Texas A&M University – Qatar and College Station, and with the College of the North Atlantic – Qatar both funded through the National Priorities Research Programme of the Qatar National Research Fund.