The First International Research Competition on Sustainable Urban Regeneration (SUR 2010)
Welcome to SUR 2010!

Dear Participant,

As the Program Chair for “The First International Research Competition on Sustainable Regeneration (SUR 2010)”, I'd like to welcome you to SUR 2010, held and organized by IAU – UAE Branch, Dubai, UAE. SUR 2010 brings together a vast variety of sustainability-related research works from government, commercial, and academic individuals and organizations worldwide to share the results of the latest research works among the researchers in the field to promote the knowledge of sustainability in urban environments. As always, here at IAU, we also extend a warm welcome to all our colleagues in the construction industry who share our interest in developing sustainable cities.

If you or your organization have done a research work in the fields related to sustainability and you want to have your work evaluated and judged by our highly knowledgeable jury team, you should attend this competition.

The SUR 2010 research competition is an exciting and challenging event which has the combination of state-of-the-arts technology and academic research results. Qualified researchers will be invited to Dubai as IAU’s guests and winners will be awarded valuable prizes and certificates and they will deliver speech and present their research articles in the final ceremony at IAU – UAE Branch, Dubai.

I look forward to meeting you in SUR 2010 research competition.

Dr. Bardia Bakhtiar
Program Chair

Call for Papers

Download the SUR 2010 advertising poster here.

SUR 2010 will cover variety of topics related to sustainability and contemporary cities. This competition aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion about related keywords. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  1. Physical Aspects:
    • High technology to build sustainable buildings and cities
    • New materials and construction strategies for designing sustainable cities and buildings
    • Sustainable design for 21st century buildings and cities
    • Sustainable regeneration urban fabrics
    • Sustainable form, function and space
  2. Human Aspects:
    • Human habitat and socio-economical issues
    • Buildings and people
    • Free-car zone and pedestrian movement in cities
    • Sustainable urban management
    • Equity and participation
  3. Ecological Aspects
    • Creative design to reduce energy use and pollution
    • Eco-cities
    • Green architecture
    • Climatic design in contemporary cities
    • Recycling efforts in future city and architecture


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  1. All abstracts must be received on or before August 20, 2010. Abstracts received after this deadline will not be accepted for inclusion in the competition.
  2. All abstracts have a 500 word limit of text (not including author(s) information and title).
  3. All abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee, and a notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent to the submitting author only. It is the responsibility of the submitting author to notify other co-author(s) of the Committeeï؟½s decision.
  4. All abstracts must be sent to sur2010@iau.ae.
  5. Competition's website will publish accepted abstracts.
  6. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the competition.


PAPER FORMAT

Title

The title should briefly identify the subject and indicate the purpose of the document. The title should supply enough information for the reader to make a reliable decision on probable interest. A short informative title is preferred over a long obtuse one. Titles should not exceed 10 words, except in unusual instances. Please set the title in 12 bold point Times Roman style with 1 line spacing. Capitalize the first letter of each word in the title except articles, prepositions, and conjunctions. Center the authors' initials and last names, email and phon directly below the title.

Abstract

Each paper should begin with an abstract, followed by a set of keywords, both placed in the first page under the name of writer(s). The abstract text should be set in 12 point Times Roman type, with 11 points between successive baselines. The abstract shouldn't be more than 350 words. Please attention that an abstract has to clear the purpose of the research: What was studied? What hypothesis was tested?

  • A brief description of the methods should give the reader an idea of the general approach used by the researcher. The abstract should contain only enough about methodology to provide a context for the results.
  • A summary of the results should include the major trends and the most important results of the study. Data may be given to emphasize the results; group size, p-values, etc., should not be included.
  • A concise statement of the conclusions that can be drawn from the study completes the abstract. The researcher may wish to place the work in perspective by stating whether the report confirms or extends the findings of previous researchers.

Keywords

A short list of keywords or phrases should be included immediately after the abstract as index words.

Margins

The standard margin size in APA is 2.5cm (1 inch) for all four sides

منبع: http://www.iau.ae/sur2010