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Industrialised, Integrated, Intelligent sustainable Construction - I3con

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HANDBOOK 2 SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION<br />

Authors’ Biographies<br />

Abolghasem (Hamid) Asgari (M'03-SM'09) received his B.Sc. from Dr.<br />

Beheshti University in Tehran, M.Sc. (Hons) from the University of<br />

Auckland, New Zealand both in Computer Science, and his Ph.D. in<br />

Electronic Engineering (ATM networks) from University of Wales,<br />

Swansea in 1997. He was with Iran Telecom. Research Center (ITRC)<br />

from 1986 to 1990. He joined Thales Research & Technology (UK) Ltd<br />

(formerly Racal Research) in 1996 where he is with the Security and<br />

Communication Systems Division as a Chief Engineer specializing in the<br />

data communication systems/networks. He has been involved in design<br />

and analysis of integrated services and network architectures. He has<br />

actively participated in a number of EC projects including IST- TEQUILA,<br />

MESCAL, ENTHRONE, VISNET, and NMP- I3CON projects. His main<br />

research interests are in wired/wireless network QoS management and<br />

monitoring, network performance evaluation, traffic engineering, service<br />

management, and wireless sensor networking. He has published more than<br />

50 papers in these areas. He also served as a Visiting Professor at CNRS<br />

LaBRI in University of Bordeaux 1, France. He is a Senior Member of<br />

IEEE.<br />

Mark Irons received a MEng in Electronic Engineering from the<br />

University of Wales, Bangor in 1997. He joined Thales Research &<br />

Technology in 1996, where he works as a Software Engineer in the<br />

Security and Communications Systems Group. He is skilled in the<br />

architectural design and implementation of distributed enterprise software<br />

across a broad range of application domains, including secure<br />

communications, IP network management, travel route planning and<br />

disruption management, and wireless sensor networks. He has participated<br />

in several EC research projects, including IST TEQUILA (Traffic<br />

Engineering for QUality of Service in the Internet, at LArge scale), IST<br />

PASR SUPHICE (Secure Unplanned Provisioning of High Integrity<br />

Communications Across Europe) and NMP- I3CON projects. He is a<br />

member of the IET and a Chartered Engineer.<br />

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