Construction Project Planning and Management

• Optimization methods in project planning and scheduling;
• Project management methodology for post-disaster reconstruction;
• Construction waste management in disasters;
• Construction management in response to disasters;

Disaster Risk Management

• Disaster recovery project management;
• Disaster response strategies in the built environment;
• Disaster-resilient built environment;
• Strategies and plans for mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery;
• Evacuation planning

Computer-Based Engineering Techniques

• Innovative computational strategies and numerical algorithms for large-scale engineering problems
• Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), knowledge-based systems, computational intelligence, including neural networks and evolutionary computations to engineering problems
• Mathematical models in engineering problems