WKU's SEAS Faculty and Staff

Biography

I am an assistant professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Western Kentucky University. My area of expertise is in architectural engineering, specifically, design of building systems for sustainability. I teach and pursue scholarships in the disciplines of architectural engineering, building construction, and sustainable building design. My research focus is on Post Occupancy Evaluation of high-performance buildings. Current research is on Indoor Environmental Quality, on the alignment of laypeople's perceptions and spatial experiences with building performance in the context of sustainability and design.

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Osama_Mansour8

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FxGABaUAAAAJ&hl=en  

Education

Post-Doctoral Fellow, College of Architecture, The University of Arizona.

PhD, Environmental Design, School of Architecture, University of Calgary.

MSc., Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ain-Shams University.                                                    

BSc., Architectural Engineering (first class honours), Faculty of Engineering, Ain-Shams University.

Additional Courses & Certifications:

Leading the Building Commissioning Process, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Building Energy modeling and Auditing, The University of Arizona, Tucson.

Project Management – Team Approach, MITACS, University of Calgary, Canada

LEED Accredited Professional, U.S. Green Building Council.

• Indoor Environmental Quality
• Human factors in sustainable building design

Refereed Journal Publications

1. Mansour, O. E., & Alrawy, O. (2022). Contextual factors in green building rating. The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design.
2. Mansour, O. E. & Haddad, Bashar (2021). Building design, Resident's Behavior, and Indoor Radon in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Journal of Management and Engineering Integration.
3. Sabbagh, M., Mansour, O. E., & Banawi, A. (2019). Grease the green wheels: A framework for exepediting the green building movement in the arab region, Sustainability, 11,19.
4. Mansour, O. E. & Alrawy, O. (2019). The impact of enhanced commissioning process on AEC professionals: a case study of LEED new construction. Energy and Environment Research, 9(2), 19.
5. Al-Zu’bi, M. & Mansour, O. (2017). Water, Energy, and Rooftops: Integrating Green Roof Systems into Building Policies in the Arab Region. Environment and Natural Resources Research, 7(2), 11.
6. Mansour, O. E., & Radford, S. K. (2016). Rethinking the environmental and experiential categories of sustainable building design, a conjoint analysis. Building and Environment, 98, 47-54.
7. Mansour, O. E. (2014). On the aesthetics of sustainable buildings in hot arid climate, the case of two LEED buildings in Cairo, Egypt and Las Vegas, US. KSU Journal of Architecture & Planning, Special Issue on Sustainability on Hot Arid Regions 26(2), 15-26.

Refereed Conference Publications

1. Mansour, O. E. & Aly, Shahnaz (2023, Feb. 5-8). Revisiting the building design attributes and indoor radon: a survey of 36 homes in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The second international conference on civil, infrastructure, and construction. Doha, Qatar.
2. Mansour, O. E. & Aly, Shahnaz (2022, June 26-29). Rethinking the Student Learning Objectives in an Architectural Project-based Course. The American Society for Engineering Education conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
3. Mansour, O. E. (2021, October 26-28). Re-examining the Efficacy of Radon Mitigation Systems in Single-Family Dwellings: A Pilot Study. Zero Energy Mass Custom Home International Conference. Dubai, UAE.
4. Mansour, O. E. (2019). Healthy and sustainable: Bridging the gap in the current sustainable building practice. The 15th Annual conference on sustainability, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada.
5. Mansour, O. E. (2019). Ethnography in the Realm of Sustainability and Building Design. The 50th Annual conference, the Environmental Design Research Association EDRA, Tandon College of Engineering. Brooklyn, New York.
6. Mansour, O. E. & Alrawy, O. (2019). Contrasting daylight simulation, measurements, and occupant’s perception in a “LEED” Office building in Arid Climate. BSCAIRO, Simulation for a Sustainable Built Environment, Cairo.
7. Mansour, O. E. & Radford, Scott K. (2014). Green building perception matrix, a theoritical framework. The 6th Annual Symposium of Architectural Research, Oulu, Finland.

Books:

1. Mansour, O. E. (2016). Enhancing Green Building Performance: A Human Experiential Approach. Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN: 3659906107

• Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
• U. S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
• Registered Architectural Engineer, Egypt.