Eco-Concrete Compatiton ACI Leadership & Services

Organizational Leadership

Leader of MIT Postdoctoral Mentorship program, MIT, Cambridge, USA (2020-2021), Provided solutions and presided sessions for meetings among mentors and postdoc mentees
Session Moderator of the International Symposium on Pavement, Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment, Online (Jan 2021), Provided support, presided sessions, for organizing the conference and scientific sessions
Session Chair and Volunteer Organizer of LCA XIX Conference, Tucson, Arizona, USA (2019), Provided support, presided sessions, for organizing the conference and scientific sessions
Chairman of the first and second versions of the Eco-Concrete Student Competition, ACI Spring Convention, Quebec City, Canada (10/2017 and 03/2019), Provided support, presided sessions and led a team of 32 volunteers for organizing the competition from all the worlds continents. See the location of the participants and the types of cementitious materials that they have used for this competition in the following map. A complete report was published in the August 2019 issue of the Concrete International magazine.

Member of the organizing committee of 10th ACI/RILEM International Conference on Cementitious Materials (ICCM), Montreal, Canada (10/2017), Preparing the conference documents and moderating sessions of the conference.

President of ACI Sherbrooke chapter, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada (2017-2018), Privileged to serve as the president of a student chapter recognized by ACI international and led a team of 6 to organize dozens of activities, such as competitions, seminars, technical visits, and scientific meetings at Université de Sherbrooke (Chapters received Excellent Award from ACI International).

Professional Services

Reviewer for Greenroads® Rating System v.3, Reviewed 61 credits assigned to sustainability and resiliency categories such as, Environment and Water, Construction Activities, Materials & Design, Utilities and Controls, Access and Livability and Creativity and Effort for measuring and managing sustainability on infrastructure projects.

Paper Reviewer for ISSST and ACLCA Conferences, Reviewed 15 special session proposals and research abstracts for the two conferences.

Voting member of ACI committee C601-0E (Concrete Construction Sustainability Assessor), Help the committee with question’s preparation for the exam and revision of technical information.

Technical committee member of Low-carbon assets through life cycle assessment initiative LCA2 - National Research Council of Canada, Contribute to providing feedback and participate in meetings, commented on draft reports, presenting research outcomes and methodological development as a guideline.

AHG Member of ISO/TC207/SC7/WG13 on ISO 14082 - Radiative Forcing Management-- Guidance for the quantification and reporting of radiative forcing-based climate footprints and mitigation efforts, Contribute to writing the inaugural ISO standard. Participated in new report ballots, commented on draft reports, and attended the committee meeting.

Member of the advisory board, EC3: Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator, Carbon Leadership Forum, Review the methodology of incorporating uncertainty and variability of construction materials EPDs.

Voting member of ACI sub-committees 130-0H (Climate Change Impacts on the Sustainability of Concrete) and 130G – Education (01/2019-present), Help the committee with revision of technical information. Participated in new report ballots, commented on draft reports, and attended the committee meeting.

On-site judge and reviewer of ACI mortar workability competition, ACI Fall 2017, Anaheim and ACI Spring 2019, Quebec City Conventions (09/2017 and 03/2019), Reviewed students’ reports and evaluated mortar workability and bleeding at the competition place.

Associate member of ACI S801- Student Competition Committee (01/2019-Present), Participated in competition development and revisions, new report ballots, commented on draft reports and attended committee meetings.

Co-developer of the Eco-concrete Student Competition, ACI International, USA (03/2017-10/2017), Authored the documents (jury sheets and competition rules) and developed an LCA tool for the ACI international “eco-concrete” competition in collaboration with 5 other teammates.

Collaborator of the assessment of the environmental impacts of LCAXVII conference, ACLCA, New Hampshire, USA (10/2017), Collected and analyzed data on the environmental impacts of transportation, accommodation, and food serving of the conference attendees and prepared presentations for showing the results to attendees.

Voting member of ACI committee 130 - Sustainability of Concrete (11/2015-Present), Privileged to write a chapter for the guideline, to help the committee with revising technical information. participated in new report ballots, commented on draft reports, and attended the committee meeting.

Associate member of ACI committee 237 - Self-Consolidating Concrete (11/2015-Present), Participated in new report ballots, commented on draft reports and attended committee meetings.

Peer-reviews (Grant Proposals and Papers)

Concrete Research Council grants, ACI Foundation, USA, Reviewed and Scored research proposals.

Regular reviewer of scientific publications for Construction and Building Materials (Outstanding reviewer award), Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Springer.