Preface

Abstract

ICCEET was established at University of Kufa with the aim of promoting the acquisition and transfer of civil and environmental engineering technologies for advancing research, design, and construction practices that can be utilized for improving the quality of life for all people in our territory. ICCEET is going to bring people from different marbles in civil & environmental engineering and merge them in one forum. In the ICCEET, you’ll find a wide range of disciplines to include all fields of civil and environmental engineering including: construction, modern GIS, geotechnical, structural, environmental, water resources, and transportation where it’s hoped that useful discussions and collaborations can be instigated.The first edition of ICCEET has been organized in cooperation with Liverpool June Moores University on April 23-24, 2019 at University of Kufa. In this edition, numerous manuscripts were submitted to the ICCEET from a wide range of countries all around the world and in different fields of Civil Engineering. The total published papers after accepting them by the editorial board of the conference and performing a peer review process were 63 papers.The conference in the second edition received potential number of submissions from across the world i.e. Iraq, UK, Turkey, Iran, Thailand, China and Malesia. 84 papers have been accepted by the editorial board of ICCEET 2020 after the stringent screening and review process. ICCEET is an annual technical event and has been aimed to be conducted on April every year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in all over the world followed by the national and international travel restrictions, the conference has been organized in online model via Free Conference Call (FCC) during June 10 - 11, 2020 from Najaf, Iraq. There were more than 80 papers presented from Iraq, Uk, Malesia, Thailand, Iran, and Turkey which were distributed to six individual sessions in accordance to the specific field i.e. structural engineering, highways engineering, geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, materials, engineering and others. Each presenter were given ten minutes for presentation and five minutes for Q&A discussion on the queries. The chairman of the technical session made sure that the questions and answer sessions were fairly coordinated with the presenters and participants. The conference started at 10:00 am on 10th June with the keynote speakers session by Prof. Louay Mohammed, Louisiana State University, USA and Professor Ahmed Al-Shamma’a, the dean of the College of Engineering, University of Sharja, UAE. Also, an attractive workshop has been conducted on the first day at 7:00 pm by Dr. Kazem Fakharian, Amirkabir University, Iran. Also, we are pleased that more than 800 people from different regions of the world have attended to the different activities of the conference. The conference has been successfully completed with keynote session, workshop and all the presentations.Dr. Abbas Al-HdabiICCEET2020 Editor