Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture received the best paper award in the 2nd NZAAR International event series on Natural and Built Environment, Cities, Sustainability and Advanced Engineering held in Kuala Lumpur. on 8 December, 2016. The international conference was organized by New Zealand Academy of Applied Research (NZAAR). Dr. Iftekhar also chaired a session of the conference. The title of his paper was “Coping gender inequality through home based work: a study of adaptive micro scale work environments in Korail slum, Dhaka”.