Prof. Khalid M. Yousri

Doctor Khalid M. Yousri is Professor of Properties and Strength of Materials. He was Vice Chairman for Research and Studies Affairs at Housing & Building National Research Center, Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities, Egypt (2011-2022).

Dr. Khalid is Consultant Engineer with over than 35years’ experience in the areas of concrete technology, construction materials, ready mixed concrete and construction methods. His expertise includes problem solving, testing and repair of different structures, rehabilitation and strengthening of corroded reinforced concrete structures, quality control & assurance, specifications, nondestructive evaluation, and research. He is an author with numerous articles. His background as a researcher and builder provides a solid basis of technical and practical knowledge in the field of construction industry. Dr. Khalid is Partner and Founder of Modules Egypt consulting office.

1999: Ph.D.,
Structural Eng. Dept., Faculty of Eng., Cairo University Thesis  titled “Seismic  Repair of Reinforced Concrete Beams By Epoxy Injection Technique ”

1990:  M.Sc.,
Structural Eng. Dept., Faculty of Eng., Cairo University,
Thesis titled “An Investigation on the Use of Sulfur in Housing Projects in Egypt”

1984:  B.Sc.
of Civil Engineering, with a rate of appreciation: Very Good, 80.9% Project (Highways & Airports), Specification & Quantity :Distinction.

• Member of the Steering Committee of the Quality of Life Code.
• Member of the Steering Committee for the Egyptian Code for Design and Construction of Concrete Structures.
• Member of the Concrete Materials Committee, the Egyptian Code for Design and Construction of Concrete Structures.
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Egyptian Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct for the Practice of the Engineering Profession.
• Member of the steering committee for preparing the Egyptian code for building with compressed earth blocks.
• Member of the committee to study the suitability of high-rise towers in the new administrative capital to the Egyptian Code for Design and Construction of Concrete Structures, Housing and Building National Research Center, 2020.
• Member of the committee formed to prepare the technical specifications for ready-mix concrete batching plants in Egypt.
• Member of the technical committee formed to prepare the general requirements for the work of the insulation of structures with basement and underground structures.
• Member of the committee ISO/TC71/SC6 preparing “Non-traditional Reinforcing Materials for Concrete Structures” Secretariat Japan (JISC), 2011.
• Member of American Society for Testing Materials, ASTM committee

                                                   C01 on Cement

                                                   C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates

                                                   C14 on Glass and Glass Products

                                                   C21 on Ceramic Whitewares and Related Products

                                                   C24 on Building Seals and Sealants

• Heading the committee No. 2/11 of “Construction Materials”, Egyptian Organization for standardization & Quality EOS, Ministry of Trade & Industry issuing the Egyptian Standards.

Representing EGYPT (via Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality) in the following meeting:

• Meeting of ISO/TC 71, Concrete, reinforced concrete and pre-stressed concrete Cairo, Egypt  9-11, 2009

• Meeting of ISO/ TC 71 , Concrete, reinforced concrete and pre-stressed concrete ,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong, China June 20-23, 2011.

• Heading the committee to study low-cost construction methods.
• Member of the committee “Assuring the quality of the imported billets and its conformity with the specifications in force globally and in the local market, which is formed by the decision of the Prime Minister No. 596 of 2020.
• Member in the Executive Committee for water and wastewater Utility Operators Certification program.
• Member in the Editorial Board, The Engineer, Annual Magazine, Faculty of Engineering, U.A.E. University, 1994.
• Member and Rapporteur of the Advisory Committee for the Review and Approval of the Basis of Acceptance and Evaluation Reports of Facilities with New Systems and Emanating from the American ICC.
• Member of the committee formed regarding “the roadmap for the axis of population expansion and the reconstruction of the uninhabited space in the deserts of Egypt – sustainable green urbanization” (the committee for the study of building materials and construction systems in desert and coastal areas according to the quality of raw materials available and the nature of the soil in
• Member of the Committee for Granting the Quality Mark – General Authority for Standardization and Quality – Ministry of Trade & Industry.
• Member in the steering committee “Low-Carbon Roadmap for the Egyptian Cement Industry” Ministry of Trade & Industry/ European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
• Member of the committee dealing with Career Guidance for Youth Employment Skills for Sustainable Employment: Vocational Training & Apprenticeship for the Egyptian Building and Construction Sector, International labor Organization (ILO).
• Heading the team-work supervising and inspecting ready mixed concrete and Batch plants in Egypt, Housing & Building National Research Center, 2005
• Member in the committee preparing Strength of Materials Research and Quality Control Depart., Housing & Building National Research Center for ISO 17025 Certificate, 2005.
• Member, Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire UH.

Repairing the tilt that occurred in one of the tanks in the Citro Egypt project – the 10th of Ramadan.

Structural safety of Velo-city Readymade Garments Factory – General Investment Authority – Free Zone – Ismailia

Strengthening the youth hostel building – Zagazig

Loading experiments for the administrative building of the Petroleum Air Services Company

Determining defects and treatment methods for Al-Bahr Mosque – Damietta

Technical report on inspecting the casted part of the basement ceiling slab at the Sheraton Hotel in Dream Land between the axes (A/E & 23/27) – (Phase 4)

Technical report on Case No. 465 of 2010, Administrative Sayeda Zainab, registered as No. 4 of 2010, regarding the southern building of the National Cancer Institute – Foum Al Khaleej, Cairo

Technical report on Case No. 6298 of 2004 regarding the collapse of the central part of the new entrance to the 6th of October entrance- Police Academy.

Metal Scaffold Load Test – US Embassy in Cairo.

Technical report on the technical follow-up of the work of supervising the implementation of the restoration of the corrosion of reinforced concrete columns on the ground floor of the new administrative building project at the Local Development Center – Saqqara – Giza Governorate.

Supervising the strengthening of reinforced concrete columns on the ground floor of the new administrative building project at the Local Development Center – Saqqara – Giza Governorate – the first and second phases for 20 columns submitted to the Central Administration for Plan and Follow-up Affairs – Ministry of Local Development.

Assessment of the structural integrity of the foundations of some buildings of the construction project of 40 buildings – the second urban zone – the 10th district – 6 October.

Technical report on the inspection of the administration building and the celebration hall of the Misr University for Science and Technology – 6th of October City.

Technical report regarding the study of the collapse of the villa located in 24 Al-Sahab Street, intersection of Ahmed Kamel Street, behind the Giza Governorate Building – Omrania – Giza Governorate

Technical report regarding the inspection of f the Ministry of Trade and Industry – Central Services Sector.

Technical report regarding the tests of the restoration project of Prince Kabir and Sultan Enal Group – submitted to the Arab Office for Design and Engineering Consultations – one of the subsidiaries of the Holding Company for Trade

Technical report on the inspection of a residential building owned by the Egyptian Airports Company – 6th of October District – Al-Manakh District – Port Said

Technical report on structural safety and methods of strengthening for property No. 22 Giza Street – Giza

Technical report regarding the inspection of the buildings Nos. (1; 2; 3; 4; 10; 13; 14; 15) the implementation of the (Egyptian Contracting) Mokhtar Ibrahim Company in Obour City – Cairo Governorate, the advanced housing process for 220 housing units.

Technical report on the nurseries unit at Al-Nasr General Hospital in Port Said.

Loading experiments for one of the 2400 military project facilities – Ras El-Tin – Alexandria.

• 29 buildings in Fayoum governorate
• 175 buildings – Port Said Governorate
• 3343 units in Helwan
• 103 buildings in Giza Governorate
• 85 buildings in Ismailia governorate
• 52 buildings in Suez Governorate
• 40 buildings in 6th of October

– Calibration report on the scales of the Industrial and Engineering Projects Company mixing station for the Jawhara Ceramica Factory Project – Sadat Industrial City

– A technical report regarding the inspection of the two stations of Al-Wali Company for ready-mixed concrete in Kattameya and Helwan submitted to Nabcontract Contracting Company

– Follow-up report on quality control work for the construction project of Jushi Egypt Company for Dimex Ready Mix Concrete Plant

– Technical report on the observations on the report of the “Quality Control System for Ready Mix Concrete and Technical Specifications for its Production” Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• • Member of the Egyptian Council for Green Building and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Housing, Utilities & Unban Communities.
  • Member of the Building Materials Committee of the Egyptian Council for Green Architecture and Sustainable Development.
  • Member of the international work team “New Medina- from Pilot Towns to Sustainable Cities” project, in cooperation with the European Union, to transfer the experiences of the northern Mediterranean countries (France – Belgium) to the southern Mediterranean (Egypt – Morocco – Algeria) in the field of designing sustainable cities.
  • Head of the working group to provide technical support (advisory services for 25,000 units) to complete the design and construction of the first green social housing project in Egypt (6 projects) funded by the Fund in order to achieve sustainable development goals for adoption according to the evaluation system (the Egyptian Green Pyramid) in cooperation with the World Bank.
  • Head of the working group to prepare an environmentally friendly green social housing assessment system.
  • Head of the center’s working group to coordinate with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank for cooperation in the field of issuing certificates for facilities and urban communities.
  • Head of the work team to design the Ministry of Environment building according to the Green Pyramid Rating System in the Fifth Settlement – New Cairo, to be the first environmentally friendly government building in the country with the work of integrated designs for the Ministry’s building in New Cairo on the land allocated for this project with an area of ​​8593 square meters, so that the building is one of the architectural marks in Egypt as the first building An integrated green that was designed and evaluated in accordance with the criteria of the Egyptian Green Pyramid evaluation system, in seven basic axes of the evaluation system, in line with local and global considerations.
  • Head of the working group from the Housing and Building National Research Center in alliance with the Consulting Office of Arab Consulting Engineers (Muharram – Bakhoum) and the winner of the tender for preparing designs and tender documents and supervising the implementation of projects of the Sustainable Sanitation Services Program in Rural Areas (SRSSP) and based on results in Dakahlia (Villages Group A) financed by the World Bank.
  • Head of the joint research team from the Housing and Building National Research Center and the Canadian University of Alberta – during a period of 5 years – which ended with reaching a model related to converting traditional activated sludge plants for sewage treatment (two-treatment) to three-treatment plants using sustainable and low-cost techniques.
  • Member of the steering committee organizing 2^nd NSF Sustainable Smart Cities International workshop, ” Sustainable Smart Cities in Arid Regions, Egypt  University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB SSCRC) 
  • In the field of urban development: Participated the following Panels of Experts through the CIUDAD program with the cooperation of EU:

   

  • Panel of experts in November 2011. Project of Sidi Abdellah new town Algeria.
  • Panel of experts in Marseille, 2012, France
  • Panel of experts in September 2012. Project New Fayoum City. Egypt.
  • Panel of experts in June 2013. Project Al-Omran Chrafate new town, Tanger, Morocco.

   

  The aim of the program is cooperation and exchange of practices between EU countries and the EU neighborhood policy’s countries, including central and eastern European countries that are not members of EU and Mediterranean countries. This program aims to reinforce local and regional government’s capacities by promoting an urban, integrated and sustainable development. It focuses on three main topics:

  –                       Sustainable development and energetic efficiency,

  –                      Economic development and reduction of social disparities,

  –                      Good governance, development and long term urban planning.

• Member in the Committee preparing the 1st International Conference on Reinforced Concrete Materials in Hot climate, Exhibition committee, U.A.E. University, Al-Ain, UAE, April, 1994.
• Member in the committee preparing the 6th International Engineering and Construction conference, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2010
• Member in the committee organizing US-Egypt Workshop Summary and Collaboration, Housing and Building Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, 2010
• Egyptian (HBRC )-German (TU Berlin ) Cooperation Workshop, Berlin 2012
• Vice-Chair of conference “7th International Conference on Nano-Technology in construction, HBRC- Egyptian Russian University, 2015
• Vice chair of conference the 1st International conference tilted ‘Toward Better Quality of Life” Technische Universität Berlin & HBRC 2017.
• 2nd NSF Sustainable Smart Cities International workshop, ” Sustainable Smart Cities in Arid Regions, Egypt 2019
• Member in the scientific Committee for the ” 1st International Conference on Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Development, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Informatics, University of Miskolc, Hungry 2019

Memorandum of Understanding resulting from Egyptian-German Cooperation workshop between TU Berlin and Housing & Building National Research Center, 2012

Memorandum of Understanding between the Governors of the University of Alberta and Housing & Building National Research Center, 2014

Memorandum of Understanding between EMI-Nonprofit Company for Quality Control and Innovation in Building Hungary and Housing & Building National Research Center , 2018

• Self-consolidating grout for a cost efficient load bearing building system.
•  Technical Report On Masonry Cement MC-5. Submitted to Suez Cement Group.
• Technical Report on The suitability of using crushed stone containing ankerite as a coarse aggregate in Metro Project. Submitted to The Egyptian Company for Prestressed Concrete.
• Technical report on the inspection of the factories of the Misr Company for the production and sale of clay bricks and building materials, Misr Brick
  Technical report on the provision of an alternative to Super Fine Cement 4100 used in the manufacture of concrete flanges in accordance with the requirements of specification HS. 125 issued 1974
• The use of Pozzokal as cement replacement material in ready mix concrete Submitted to Suez Cement Group And Ready Mix Concrete Alamia.
• Technical Report on Suitability of Portland Limestone Cement CEM II/A-L for Use in Structural Concrete Applications Submitted to SUEZ CEMENT GROUP.
• Technical Report On The visit carried out at Beni-Suef Cement Co. / new 1.5 million t/year production line project (Preheater)
• Technical report on the visit of El Galala Factory for Marble and Granite submitted to the Administrative Control Authority .
• Technical report on the use of fiberglass-reinforced cement panels as internal and external walls – UTILACRETE Company – Egypt

Alaa M. Rashad, Hosam.El_Din H. Seleem, Khalid M. Yousri “Compressive Strength of Concrete Mixtures with Binary and Ternary Cement Blends” Building Research Journal Vol.57, No.2, p.107-130, ISSN 1335-8863, Slovak Academy of Sciences 2009.

Khalid M. Yousri“ Sulfate Resistance of New Cements” Engineering Research Journal, Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Dec. 2008.

Khalid M. Yousri, Ahmed Ali & Ahmed El-Gabry “Mechanical Properties of Blended Coarse aggregate Concrete Mixtures” Engineering Research Journal, Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Oct. 2008

K. M. Yousri “Self-Flowing Underwater Concrete Mixtures” Magazine of Concrete Research, Volume 60, Issue 1, 01 February 2008 , pages1 –10 , ISSN: 0024-9831, E-ISSN: 1751-763X

Khalid M. Yousri”Properties of New Cements Produced in Egypt as per ES 4756/2005″Housing & Building National research Center Journal VOL. 3 No.3 December 2007

K.M. Yousri& H. H. Seleem “Workability & Compressive Strength of Re-Tempered Concrete Mixtures” Journal of the Egyptian Society of Engineers, Egypt, No.3 , Vol. 43, 2004.

M.S. Abdel-Hamid &K. M. Yousri “The Impact of Quality System Implementation on the Performance of Both Site and Ready Mixed Concrete” Engineering Research Journal , Helwan University, Egypt, Vol. 94, 2004.

N. M. Nofal&K. M. Yousri “Potentiality of Using Crushed Limestone in Construction Industry in Egypt” Civil Engineering Research Magazine, Faculty of Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Vol. 25 No. 1, 2004

Alshamsi, A., Alhosani K. &Yousri K. :“Hydrophobic Materials, Superplasticizer and Microsilica Effects on Setting of Cement Pastes at Various Temperatures”. Magazine of Concrete Research, Volume 49, Issue 179, 01 January 1997 , pages111 –115 , ISSN: 0024-9831, E-ISSN: 1751-763X

Rahman A.A. &Yousri K.M.,: “Performance of Structures During the Oct. 12, 1992 Cairo Earthquake” The Masonry Society Journal, Vol. 13, No.1, August 1994,Longmont, CO USA 80501-6172 .

Adel ElSafty, Khalid Yousri and Hossam Selim “Concrete Repair and Cathodic Protection of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Structure, The 2009 PCI Convention and National Bridge Conference, San Antonio, Texas. 2009”

Khalid M. Yousri, Aiman Ismaeel& Ashraf Essa “Structural Properties of Lightweight Concrete Mixtures” 7th Egyptian Rural Development Conference (ERD7), 13-15 Oct. 2009.

Adel ElSafty, Russell Coby, UpulAttanayake, and Khalid Yousri “Shear Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Girders with FRP Laminates” Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, Federal Highway Administration, PCI-FHWA National Bridge Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2008

K. M. Yousri “The Use of Sulfur by-product Material as Fine Aggregate Substitute in Concrete Mixes” The 23rdInternational Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia, PA U.S.A. March 30 – April 2, 2008

A.A. Shahen&Khalid M. Yousri “Seismic Behavior of High Strength Concrete Beams Deficient in Shear Reinforcement”, International Conference on Structural & Geotechnical Engineering and Construction Technology, Mansoura, 23-25 March , Egypt 2004.

K.M. Yousri, T. A. Osman &E.El-Shimy “International Standards and Codes for Chloride Limits in Reinforced Concrete Structures”, 22nd Annual conference on Corrosion Problems in Industry, Ain el-Sukhna, Red sea, Egypt. 8-11 Dec., 2003.

A. Osman, K. Yousri, A.A. Rahman. & E. Hashim “Seismic Repair of Reinforced Concrete Beams by Epoxy Injection Technique” The 8th Arab Structural Engineering Conference, Cairo, 21-23 October 2000.

Alhosani, K., Alshamsi A. &Yousri K.: “ Hydrophobic Materials and Superplasticizer Effects on Setting Times in Hot Climates” Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Concrete Technology for Developing Countries, North Cyprus, Nov. 1996.

Elkanzi E., Alhosani K., Alshamsi A. & Yousri K.: “Prospects of Sulfur as a Construction Material in the U.A.E.” Proceedings, 1st International Conference on Reinforced Concrete Materials in Hot climate, U.A.E. University, Al-Ain, April, 1994.