User:Khaled El-Neshily

Khaled is an architect and urban planner with strong technical and management background in the regeneration, development and construction fields. He has gained experience with various projects through: his work with an international organization that focuses on the physical, social, cultural and economic revitalization of urban and rural areas in developing countries; his voluntary work with an NGO that is concerned with Appropriate Building Technology as a tool for sustainable urbanism, development and community building, his teaching in the Academic University; a key member of the curriculum committee for a program to develop vocational skills in Egypt.

Khaled has completed a formal qualification in planning (MSc) in the UK focusing on enablement of community participation in the design and implementation of regeneration projects and programmes. His pervious work includes:

·Preparing strategic plans, logical frameworks and monitoring and evaluation indicators for regeneration projects and programmes to enhance their sustainability; managing, leading and carrying out design, development and implementation of different projects in developing countries. Projects completed include: housing rehabilitation and construction projects in rural and urban areas of Egypt and Syria; restoration of a former school building and its annex in historic Cairo and converting them into a community centre, vocational training centre and an early childhood centre; upgrading a historic vegetable market in old Cairo; provided numerous design proposals for the improvement of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture’s largest project in Cairo “Al Azhar Park”, including the design and implementation of buildings as well as hard and soft landscape features within 1.2 miles;

·Organizing and running training workshops to craftsmen, architects and engineers on the design and Low Cost Efficient Construction methodology of historic building techniques, housing, services and mix-used building;

·Preparing and proposing shelter and services schemes to improve poor living conditions, land regulations, urban management and building livelihoods in contexts that suffer from poverty, and social, economic and political instability. Projects proposed include: upgrading housing projects in rural areas of Pakistan, as well as the planning for sites and services scheme in rural area of Lahore;

khaled is interested in employing conceptual thinking and a variety of research methods and analytical techniques in designing and implementing programmes to improve sustainable social and physical fabrics in historic cities and poor urban and rural areas.