An architect for 22 years, Samia Ebrahiem brings her eye for design and passion for sustainability to SAIT as an instructor for the Bachelor of Science, Construction Management program. Here, she teaches students about sustainable construction, safety management and total building performance, preparing them to enter an industry currently evolving to focus more on environmental sustainability.
Although she has been at SAIT since 2014, Ebrahiem was a professor for 15 years at her alma mater, Menoufiya University in Egypt, where she obtained her bachelor, master’s and doctoral degrees in Architecture Engineering. Her work has also taken her to the University of Calgary where she did post-doctoral research on urban planning for the Faculty of Environmental Design. Ebrahiem moved to Canada in 2014 from Cairo where she had been a senior designer for an architecture firm specializing in designing and renovating residential and commercial buildings. She is a founding partner of Vision-e Sustainable Solutions, a consulting company focused on sustainable design, which offers energy efficiency analysis, microclimate and natural ventilation studies and renewable energy applications.
Awards and achievements:
- Member of the Canadian Green Building Council — Alberta, Eco Canada — Environmental Professional,
- Decorators and Designers Association of Canada,
- Calgary Heritage Initiative Society,
- Egyptian Engineering Syndicate,
- Nominated for the 2022 ECO Impact Award,
- Presented at conferences in Montreal, Egypt and Jordan.
If I wasn’t doing this: "I’d be a biologist studying all manner of living things and the world around them."
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.