Dr. Ahmed Senouci

Dr. Ahmed Senouci, PhD was born and raised in Algeria. He received his B.S. degree from National Polytechnic School of Algiers, (Diplôme d’Ingenieur D’Etat) in Civil Engineering. He went on to receive M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and Construction Management and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering. He is currently a Construction Management Professor and the Undergraduate Program Director at the University of Houston, Houston, USA.

He has over 30 years of professional experience in civil engineering and construction management. He has successfully obtained several funded research projects and documented his findings in over 130 peer-reviewed publications. The high quality of his research has been confirmed by more than 3,000 citations and an h-index of 25, to date. He received the Best Journal Paper Award from one of the most prestigious refereed journals in his field: The ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

He has an extensive experience in optimization modeling. He developed several optimization models for the scheduling of construction projects. He has also a proven research experience in innovative asset management for onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities. He developed performance models to assist in: (1) identifying, collecting and assessing the effect of various factors on oil and gas pipelines condition and failure modes, (2) building condition and deterioration models, (3) performing life cycle cost analysis for pipeline rehabilitation scenarios, and (4) developing a web-based asset management system.

He has also a proven track-record of research excellence in sustainable construction material. He has also developed sustainable material by replacing a portion of natural aggregates with recycled rubber tires to reduce their use and find environmentally friendly solutions to the increase in the stockpile of scrap tires. He was involved in research projects that explored the use of nanotechnology-based products, namely, Carbon Nano-Fiber (CNF) and Carbon Nano-Tube (CNT) in cementitious materials to increase their tensile strength, ductility and toughness, and to hinder the formation and propagation of nano-cracks. He was also involved in a project dealing with the use of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) for the Rehabilitation of Deteriorated Concrete Infrastructure.