International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering (CENVIRON2020)

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Special Issue on Water Research Water Security: Holistic Approach Towards Water Resilience and Sustainability 18 November 2020 (Online conference) Editors: Tengku Nuraiti Tengku Izhar, Naimah Ibrahim, Farrah Aini Dahalan, FarahNaemah Mohd Saad, Azlinda Abdul Ghani, Norlia Mohamad Ibrahim, SaraYasina Yusof, Nor Faizah Bawadi, Shamilah Anudai@Anuar Organiser: Water Research Group (WAREG), Faculty of Civil Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Perlis, Malaysia PREFACE International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering (CENVIRON2020): Special Issue of Water Research is the third CENVIRON conducted since the first conference in 2017. The initial purpose of the conference is to gather researchers, academia and industries in a platform to exchange views, share ideas and discuss current researches in the field of civil and environmental engineering focusing on water research. This include current research and development especially in the advancement of various water related fundamentals and applications. This conference is expected to spur a fruitful debate and discussion, scientifically bring fresh ideas and at the same time, create a networking opportunity and strong collaboration between the participants.Due to the COVID19 pandemic, unfortunately, we have reach an agreement to opt for a virtual conference instead of the planned physical conference in the historical city of Malacca, Malaysia. Since the pandemic in Malaysia is still unstable and shows no sign of settling soon, and no mass gathering is allowed, this would be the best choice as to put everyone’s health a priority. Despite that, our team has managed to meet regularly via face to face discussions and virtual meetings, in order to ensure the quality of the conference and manuscript is not compromised.The conference was officiated on 18th November 2020 by the UniMAP’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ir. Ts. Dr. R Badlishah Ahmad at Auditorium of UniMAP Chancellory Building with minimal physical attendees among the conference organizing committee member to allow for social distancing, and with more than 60 attendees following through Google meet platform. The opening ceremony was broadcasted live via UniMAP’s official Facebook page.Two esteemed keynote speakers were invited for the plenary sessions; i.e. Director General of Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia (Keynote speech title, Water Resilience: Empowering People With Water Resources Understanding) and the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation Affairs) of Universti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Keynote speech title, Integrated/Hybrid Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment).The online parallel sessions were successfully organised at Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Library, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) using Google Meet platform. Researchers, academicians and students are among the viewers of the virtual conference. The parallel sessions were conducted according to the theme of publication. Details of the presentation schedule were included in the upcoming section. Each parallel session was chaired by an academician in the related field of Civil and Environmental Engineering to ensure smooth and lively discussions. Each session took about 15 minutes of presentation and 5 minutes of Q&A. Overall, 69 papers were accepted for CENVIRON2020 after rigorous peer review process.In summary, the success of the conference is a team effort. I am grateful to all the committee members who worked very hard to make this event a successful one. We would also like to thank all the authors who submitted their papers to the conference, and the reviewers who contributed to the review process, ensuring quality publication of the conference proceedings. We hope that you will find this conference thought provoking and engrossing and that you had a valuable experience sharing ideas with others at this conference.On behalf of the Organizing CommitteeDr. Abdul Haqi IbrahimCENVIRON2020 ChairmanPhotos are available in the pdf.