Dr. Reham A. abdelwahab | Smart Cities | Best Researcher Award

Reham Ahmed Abdelwahab, Ph.D., is a sustainability-focused architect and project manager specializing in environmental design, energy modeling, and green building certification with over 14 years of expertise. Her research field centers on sustainable urbanism, microclimate assessment, and value engineering for optimizing urban and building design performance. She integrates advanced energy simulation tools such as IES VE, DesignBuilder, Envi-met, and Eddy3D to analyze thermal comfort, daylighting, ventilation, and energy efficiency at both building and city scales. Reham’s work contributes to improving resilience and cost-effectiveness in urban development by aligning design decisions with climate-responsive strategies and green certification requirements, including LEED, WELL, and ENV SP. She has led projects across Egypt, UAE, and KSA, focusing on CFD-based airflow studies, UTCI-based outdoor comfort evaluations, and mesoscale modeling for enhancing urban heat mitigation strategies. Her research emphasizes a data-driven approach to sustainable planning, integrating LCA tools like OneClick LCA and SimaPro to assess embodied carbon and lifecycle impacts. Reham applies value engineering techniques to landscape and architectural design parameters, enabling decision-makers to balance sustainability goals with economic feasibility. Her contributions extend to project management and multidisciplinary coordination, ensuring design compliance with international green standards. Through her Ph.D. thesis, she explores optimizing landscape design parameters to enhance urban comfort, energy savings, and climate resilience while providing practical frameworks for architects and planners. This research field bridges the gap between simulation-based analysis, green certification compliance, and real-world project implementation, making it highly relevant to sustainable development goals and future city planning. Her expertise drives innovation in urban performance simulation, resource efficiency, and occupant well-being.