Dr. Mana Mohammed Almansour 

DEPUTY DEAN OF THE INSTITUTE OF STUDIES & CONSULTING SERVICES FOR BUSINESS execution

Assistant Professor 
College of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering 

 
  • Director of the Green Buildings Unit at the College of Engineering
  • Chairman of the Alumni and Student Affairs Committee, Department of Civil Engineering
  • Member of the Civil Engineering Department Council
  • Member of the Development, Quality and Academic Accreditation Committee, Department of Civil Engineering
  • Member of the Registration, Schedules and Examinations Committee, Department of Civil Engineering
  • Member of the Permanent Committee for the Development of the Comprehensive Strategic Plan for the University City


Qualifications

  • PhD in Sustainable Buildings and Energy Technologies - University of Nottingham - Nottingham - UK
  • Master of Project Management - University of New South Wales - Sydney - Australia
  • Bachelor of Civil Engineering with Honors - University of New South Wales - Sydney - Australia

Experiences

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, from 2022 until now
  • Demonstrator and then Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering - Najran University, from 2017 to 2022
  • Working in the Public Transport Authority (as a senior civil engineer) in the land transport sector, in the Department of Developing Public Transport Plans, Services and Networks in the Kingdom (Riyadh - 2017)
  • Worked in the Projects Department in Najran Municipality from 2014 to 2017 within the engineering consultancy and studies teams, where the following jobs were worked:
  • Assistant Site Engineer at Delta Engineering Consulting (October 2015 - May 2017)
  • Civil Engineer at SATEC - Saudi Technical Consulting Engineers (January 2015 – September 2015)
  • Civil engineer at House of Experience for Engineering Consultations (October 2013 - March 2014) 

Specialties and Skills

  • Excellent communication and networking skills
  • Successful working in a team environment, as well as independently
  • The ability to work under pressure and multi-task
  • The ability to follow instructions and deliver quality results
  • Analytical mind and problem solver

Training Courses

 
  • Associate engineer at the Saudi Council of Engineers
  • Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Courses in project management
  • A course in risk management
  • A course in Business Administration
  • A course in quality management
  • A course in strategic planning and management
  • A course in leadership and innovation
  • Measuring performance in light of the quality system - an applied framework (workshop)
  • Legal security and the quality of administrative and academic procedures and decisions (workshop)

Alyami, M., Hakeem, I.Y., Amin, M., Zeyad, A.M., Tayeh, B.A. and Agwa, I.S., 2023. Effect of agricultural olive, rice husk and sugarcane leaf waste ashes on sustainable ultra-high-performance concrete. Journal of Building Engineering72, p.106689.

Hakeem, I., Hosen, M., Alyami, M., Qaidi, S. and Ozkilic, Y., 2023. Effect of Thermal Cycles on the Engineering Properties and Durability of Sustainable Fibrous High-Strength Concrete. Frontiers in Materials, 10, p.11.

Hakeem, I., Hosen, M.A., Alyami, M., Qaidi, S. and ?zk?l?c, Y., 2023. Influence of Heat–Cool Cyclic Exposure on the Performance of Fiber-Reinforced High-Strength Concrete. Sustainability, 15(2), p.1433.

Alyami, M., and Omer, S., 2022. Enhancing Energy Performance in Residential Buildings in Hot Climate Regions (The Case of Saudi Arabia), International Research Journal of Advanced Engineering and Science, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp. 1-7.

Alyami, M., 2022. An approach to enhancing energy performance in residential buildings in hot climate regions (The case of Saudi Arabia) (Doctoral dissertation, University of Nottingham).

Alyami, M. and Omer, S., 2021. Factors Leading to High Energy Consumption in Residential Buildings in Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Advances in Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Vol 8 (2).

Alyami, M. and Omer, S., 2021. Building energy performance simulation: a case study of modelling an existing residential building in Saudi Arabia. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 1(3), p.035001.

Alyami, M., Omer, S. and Riffat, S., 2020. Trends on sustainability in Saudi building industry: advances and challenges.

Hybrid Metaheuristic Optimized Random Forest Models for Predicting Compressive Strength of Alkali Activated Concrete‏
M Alyami, MF Javed, I Ullah, H Alabduljabbar, F Ahmad‏
Journal of Natural Fibers 22 (1), 2509123‏
2025

Date palm fibers (from Najran city) as reinforcement in UHPC: Design, performance, and microstructural analysis‏
IY Hakeem, MA Hosen, A Alhamami, M Alyami, H Al Hatailah‏
AIP Advances 15 (10)‏
2025

Flexural performance and ductility of UHPC incorporating Najran City’s lathe waste powder (LWP) for substitution of cement‏
IY Hakeem, MA Hosen, A Alhamami, M Alyami, W Mansour‏
Innovative Infrastructure Solutions 10 (9), 420‏
2025

Enhancing Najran’s sustainable smart city development in the face of urbanization challenges in Saudi-Arabia‏
BS Alotaibi, R Elnaklah, OP Agboola, MA Abuhussain, M Tunay, YA Dodo, ...‏
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering 24 (4), 2905-2935‏
    2025

Predicting the shield effectiveness of carbon fiber reinforced mortars utilizing metaheuristic algorithms‏
M Alyami, I Ullah, F Ahmad, H Alabduljabbar‏
Case Studies in Construction Materials 22, e04357‏
2025

Integrating environmental considerations and resilience in material sourcing for construction projects: A two-stage stochastic programming model‏
Z Chen, AWA Hammad, M Alyami, AN Haddad‏
Computers & Industrial Engineering 204, 111027‏
2025

Machine learning models for predicting the compressive strength of cement-based mortar materials: Hyper tuning and optimization‏
M Alyami, I Ullah, AH AlAteah, A Alsubeai, TS Alahmari, F Farooq, ...‏
Structures 71, 107931‏
   2025

Innovative hybrid machine learning models for estimating the compressive strength of copper mine tailings concrete‏
M Alyami, K Onyelowe, AH AlAteah, TS Alahmari, A Alsubeai, I Ullah, ...‏
Case Studies in Construction Materials 21, e03869‏
2024

Exploring road traffic accidents hotspots using clustering algorithms and GIS-based spatial analysis‏
H Kamh, SH Alyami, A Khattak, M Alyami, H Almujibah‏
IEEE Access‏
2024

Estimating compressive strength of concrete containing rice husk ash using interpretable machine learning-based models‏
M Alyami, M Khan, AWA Hammad, H Alabduljabbar, R Nawaz, M Fawad, ...‏
Case Studies in Construction Materials 20, e02901‏
2024

Predictive modeling for compressive strength of 3D printed fiber-reinforced concrete using machine learning algorithms‏
M Alyami, M Khan, M Fawad, R Nawaz, AWA Hammad, T Najeh, Y Gamil‏
Case Studies in Construction Materials 20, e02728‏
2024

Performance evaluation of concrete made with plastic waste using multi-expression programming‏
U Asif, MF Javed, M Alyami, AWA Hammad‏
Materials Today Communications 39, 108789‏
2024

The impact of the composition and location of thermal insulation in the building envelope on energy consumption in low-rise residential buildings in hot climate regions‏
M Alyami‏
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 49 (4), 5305-5351‏
2024

Assessment of the split tensile strength of fiber reinforced recycled aggregate concrete using interpretable approaches with graphical user interface‏
H Alabduljabbar, F Farooq, M Alyami, AWA Hammad‏
Materials Today Communications 38, 108009‏
2024

Application of metaheuristic optimization algorithms in predicting the compressive strength of 3D-printed fiber-reinforced concrete‏
M Alyami, M Khan, MF Javed, M Ali, H Alabduljabbar, T Najeh, Y Gamil‏
Developments in the Built Environment 17, 100307‏
2024

Experimental investigation and predictive modeling of compressive strength and electrical resistivity of graphene nanoplatelets modified concrete‏
Z Shahab, W Anwar, M Alyami, AWA Hammad, H Alabduljabbar, ...‏
Materials Today Communications 38, 107639‏
2024

Estimation of compressive strength of waste concrete utilizing fly ash/slag in concrete with interpretable approaches: optimization and graphical user interface (GUI)‏
Y Dodo, K Arif, M Alyami, M Ali, T Najeh, Y Gamil‏
Scientific reports 14 (1), 4598‏
2024

Building construction supply chain resilience under supply and demand uncertainties‏
Z Chen, AWA Hammad, M Alyami‏
Automation in Construction 158, 105190‏
2024

Examining the benefits, challenges, and drivers of open user innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises operating in low R&D industries‏
M Alyami, MF Javed, AWA Hammad, A Haddad‏
Heliyon 10 (2)‏
2024

Alyami, M., Amin, M., Zeyad, A.M., Tayeh, B.A., Hakeem, I.Y. and Agwa, I.S., 2023. Effect of agricultural olive, rice husk and sugarcane leaf waste ashes on sustainable
ultra-high-performance concrete. Journal of Building Engineering, p.106689.
  • Environmental Engineering  CE 472-3 
  • Sanitary Engineering  CE 371-3
  • Water Supply and Watewater Systems CE 370-3
  • Field training 

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