Dr. Salman Saeed
Dr. Salman Saeed is an alumnus of the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Peshawar (B.Sc. and M.Sc. Engineering) and McGill University, Canada (PhD). Dr. Saeed has always taken on entirely new challenges in a vast variety of engineering disciplines at all stages of his academic and professional career.
* Dr. Saeed is currently part of faculty of National Institute of Urban Infrastructure Planning and is actively engaged in research in the fields of Climate Resilient Infrastructure, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Solid Waste Management (SWM), Transportation Modelling and Water Quality Mapping, and supervising Masters and PhD research in these areas.
* Along with regular teaching and research, Dr. Saeed also offers professional engineering services to the industry, while specially focusing on collaborating with international organizations such as Adam Smith International, UNICEF, GIZ Pakistan, and US-Aid etc. in addition to local organizations like Local Government (LG), Peshawar Development Authority (PDA), Water and Sanitation Services (WSS) Peshawar and Mardan, Urban Policy Unit (UPU) and other line departments.
* Most recently, Dr. Saeed was involved in Climate Resilience Evaluation of Bridges, Roads and Water Supply Systems, and Climate Resilient Design of the same, in projects funded by FCDO and UNICEF.
* Dr. Saeed also led a study of Water Quality Mapping and Action Planning in 5 districts of KP. This study was carried out by the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Govt. of KP. Prime responsibilities of Dr. Saeed in this study were to setup the water quality testing labs of PHED and build capacity of its staff to carry out similar studies in the future. The project cost was PKR 8.5 million.
* Earlier, Dr. Saeed carried out the Water Quality and Sanitation Survey of Urban Peshawar, a project sponsored by UNICEF for WSS Peshawar. For this study Dr. Saeed established a new Water Quality Testing lab at NIUIP and designed the SOPs to enable the lab to test up to 60 samples per day for physical, chemical and biological parameters of drinking water. The project cost was around USD 0.1 million.
* In addition, Dr. Saeed was the co-PI in a study to develop the Water Safety Plan for Angharghoon Water Supply Scheme, Chitral. The study was funded by UNICEF and was the first study of its kind ever conducted in Pakistan.
* In addition, Dr. Saeed has delivered several capacity building trainings to officials of various line departments, training them in the areas of GIS and SWM. Notable trainings include the Training of Master Trainers in SWM, both sponsored by GIZ; and Professional Development Courses on GIS and SWM, sponsored by USAID.
* Dr. Saeed has also contributed to many professional projects. The notable mentions include carrying out the Feasibility study for Car Village and Bachat Bazars, (Client: Peshawar Development Authority, Cost 4 million), that relied heavily on use of GIS, and Development of Training Modules on Solid Waste Management, (Client: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, GIZ, Cost: PKR 2.5 million)
* His primary focus during undergraduate and graduate studies remained on Structural Engineering. As undergraduate project he developed a software for modeling, analysis and design of structures.
* In his M.Sc. he specialized in optimization of bridge design using Artificial Intelligence. During this time, he also remained a research assistant and contributed towards Pakistan’s very first doctoral student in earthquake engineering, Dr. Qaisar Ali. Due to his involvement with Dr. Qaisar Ali’s research, he was one of the few engineers who was qualified and volunteered for seismic assessment of damaged structures in the aftermath of the devastating Kashmir Earthquake in the October of 2005.
* During his M.Sc. he remained part of the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering (CED) at UET. His contributions include the development of a new course on “Computer Programming for Civil Engineers”. He was also the Network Administrator for all computing facilities at CED for four years and served as Chief Testing Officer for the Soil Mechanics and Highway Engineering laboratory for two years.
* His volunteer work in rescue and relief operations in the aftermath of 2005 Earthquake motivated his doctoral research.
* The topic of his PhD dissertation was “Developing Seismic Vulnerability Maps using Ambient Vibrations and GIS”. In his research, Dr. Saeed explored the use of output-only modal analysis techniques for reducing the epistemic uncertainties in seismic vulnerability assessment of a large number of buildings in an urban environment, and developed seismic vulnerability maps of downtown Montreal, using GIS, showing the distribution of probable damage to buildings in case of future scenario earthquakes. His GIS maps are still in use by City of Montreal authorities for training in scenario-based disaster preparedness.
* During his PhD work he performed Probabilistic and Deterministic Seismic Hazard Assessment for Montreal, Canada. In a project funded by Center de Sécurité Civile, Montreal (equivalent to the PDMAs in Pakistan), he trained and subsequently led a team of engineering students to carry out Rapid Seismic Screening of important buildings in downtown Montreal.
* He also participated in a study towards developing microzonation maps for Montreal. In this study Dr. Saeed developed the software to determine frequency of one-dimensional soil column using Nakamura’s H/V analysis. Another study that Dr. Saeed was part of, aimed at determining shear wave velocities and site amplification in Montreal.
Publications:
Saeed, S., Sajid, S.H., Chouinard, L.E. (2024), Optimal Sensor Placement for Enhanced Efficiency in Structural Health Monitoring of Medium-Rise Buildings, Sensors, 24(17)
Saeed, S., Chouinard, L. E., & Sajid, S. H. (2022). Robust Synchronization of Ambient Vibration Time Histories Based on Phase Angle Compensations and Kernel Density Function. Sensors, 22.
Abid, M., Isleem, H. F., Shahzada, K., Khan, A. U., Kamal Shah, M., Saeed, S., & Aslam, F. (2021). Seismic Hazard Assessment of Shigo Kas Hydro-Power Project (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan). Buildings, 11(8), 349. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11080349
Khan, M. U., Saeed, S., Nehdi, M. L., & Rehan, R. (2021). Macroscopic Traffic-Flow Modelling Based on Gap-Filling Behavior of Heterogeneous Traffic. Applied Sciences, 11(9), 4278. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11094278
Babar, A., Saeed, S., & Ahmad, M. (2021). Developing Evaluation Tool for Mid-Rise Apartments in Pakistan. International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering Research, 9(6), 748–758. https://doi.org/10.30534/ijeter/2021/21962021
Rehman, R., Aslam, M. S., Saeed, S., Badrashi, Y. I., & Khan, F. A. (2021). Development of Sustainability Criteria for Urban Drinking Water Systems Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology, 12(4), 17.
Qaiser, T., Khan, M. U., & Saeed, S. (2021). Calibrating Microsimulation Parameters for Vehicular Travel Time. International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering Research, 9(5), 565–569. https://doi.org/10.30534/ijeter/2021/05952021
Aziz, M. I., & Saeed, S. (2021). A Study of Urban Domestic Water Service Delivery through User Perspective Survey. International Journal of Emerging Technologies, 12(2), 1–8.
Khan, M. U., Saeed, S., Khan, F. A., Aslam, M. S., & Badrashi, Y. I. (2021). Study of the Response of PW Traffic Flow Model to a Bottleneck on a Circular Road and its Suitability for Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions. International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering Research, 9(4), 460–463. https://doi.org/10.30534/ijeter/2021/22942021
Imran, W., Khan, Z. H., Gulliver, T. A., Khattak, K. S., Saeed, S., & Aslam, M. S. (2021). Macroscopic Traffic Flow Characterization for Stimuli Based on Driver Reaction. Civil Engineering Journal, 7(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.28991/cej-2021-03091632
Asif, M., & Saeed, S. (2020). Study of Effectiveness of Phytoremediation at Different Contamination Level of Wastewater. Hydrology: Current Research, 11(1), 5.
Umer, M., Khan, Z. H., Imran, W., Saeed, S., Khattak, K. S., Azam, K., & Khan, M. A. (2019). Behavioral Analysis of LWR Model Under Different Equilibrium Velocity Distributions. Pakistan Journal of Science, 71(4 suppl.), 194–199.
Sajid, S. H., Ali, S. M., Carino, N. J., Saeed, S., Sajid, H. U., & Chouinard, L. E. (2018). Strength estimation of concrete masonry units using stress-wave methods. Construction and Building Materials, 163, 518–528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.12.044
Muhammad, S., Aslam, M. S., & Saeed, S. (2017). Sustainability of Solid Waste Management System in Urban Areas of Pakistan: Stakeholders Perspective. International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications, 07(02), 86–88. https://doi.org/10.9790/9622-0702038688
Mustafa, S. H., & Saeed, S. (2017). Criteria Identification for Sustainable Highways in Pakistan. International Journal of Current Research, 9(11), 6.
Sajid, S. H., Ali, S. M., Saeed, S., Sajid, H. U., & Khan, A. N. (2016). Non-destructive testing for in-place strength estimation of concrete masonry units. Insight – Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring, 58(3), 152–156. https://doi.org/10.1784/insi.2016.58.3.152
Rehman, A., Saeed, S., & Rehan, R. (2016). Review on Municipal Solid Waste Generation in Pakistan: A Viable Source of Revenue Generation. In Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Management and Sciences (ICETEMS-2016) (pp. 265–271). Peshawar, Pakistan.
Sajid, H. U., Ashraf, M., Sajid, S. H., & Saeed, S. (2016). Effect of vertical stresses on lateral in-plane response of brick masonry walls. In Proceedings of the 16th International Brick and Masonry Conference, Padova, Italy, 26-30 June 2016 (pp. 1871–1874).
Saeed, S., Khan, A. N., Rehan, R., Sajid, S. H., Aslam, M. S., & Shahzada, K. (2015). Cost and Performance Optimization of Precast Post Tensioned Pre-Stressed Girder Bridge Superstructures. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 34(2), 8.
Nasir, H., Rehan, R., Younis, R., Mabood, F., Saeed, S., & Aslam, M. S. (2015). Machinery Selection for Demolition and Recycling of Pavements: A Simulation-Based Tool. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 34(2), 10.
Usman, T., Rehan, R., & Saeed, S. (2015). Quantifying The Effects of UPass: A Transit Demand Management Strategy. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 34(1), 8.
Sajid, S. H., Ali, S. M., Saeed, S., & Khan, A. N. (2015). Using Nondestructive Test for In-situ Strength Evaluation of Concrete Masonry Units. In ASNT 24th Research Symposium 2015.
Afzal, S., Shahzada, K., Fahad, M., Saeed, S., & Ashraf, M. (2014). Assessment of early-age autogenous shrinkage strains in concrete using bentonite clay as internal curing technique. Construction and Building Materials, 66, 403–409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2014.05.051
Saeed, S., & Chouinard, L. E. (2010). Synchronization of Ambient Vibration Data from Tests on Large Buildings Obtained by Multiple Data Acquisition Systems. In Proceedings of 9th US and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering (p. 1081). Ottawa, Canada.
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