Eng. Suad Al-BaharÂ
Program Manager
Construction and Building Materials
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
Suad Khalid Al-Bahar, research scientist, received her bachelor degree in civil engineering from the Faculty of Engineering and Petroleum at Kuwait University, 1980, and joined Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research in March 1981.
Al-Bahar, a Manager of the Construction and Building Materials Program of the Energy and Building Research Center, and her research interests in concrete durability and building materials sustainability extends for more than 30 years.
Al-Bahar conducted numerous client and government funded research projects in the field of concrete deterioration, high performance and lightweight concrete, corrosion protection systems of reinforced concrete structures, industrial waste containment and recycling in buildings and construction, and innovative materials.
She has contributed to many national, regional and international refereed journals, conferences, technical forums and workshops, and disseminated research findings and outputs in wide range of science and engineering journals, technical reports, proceedings, books and special publications.