Conference Themes

Construction Technology and Management

• • Construction planning and scheduling
• • Construction productivity and performance
• • Construction contracts and tendering
• • Building information modelling
• • Technology innovation and adoption
• • Construction personnel management
• • Lean construction
• • Legal issues in construction
• • Risk management in construction
• • Health, safety and well-being in construction
• • Smart Construction (3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, smart villages)
• • Green buildings

Construction Materials

• • Nano-materials
• • Application of supplementary cementitous material
• • Lightweight materials
• • Fiber reinforced concrete
• • Self-compacting concrete
• • Bio-based cementitous material
• • High performance concrete
• • Composite materials
• • Geopolymer concrete
• • Water proofing materials
• • Latex modified concrete
• • Repair materials for concrete

Environmental Engineering

• • Ecology and ecosystem management
• • Water and wastewater management
• • Solid and hazardous waste management
• • Public health and the environment
• • Environmental data analysis and modeling
• • Environmental impact Assessment
• • Environment and sustainable development
• • Computational approaches for sustainable development
• • Clean energy technologies
• • Energy conservation and management
• • Global warming and climate change
• • Carbon capture and storage

Geotechnical Engineering

• • Shallow and deep foundations
• • Environmental geotechnology
• • Problematic soils &ground improvement techniques
• • Geosynthetics and reinforced soil structures
• • Soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering
• • Numerical and physical modelling of soil behaviour
• • Forensic geotechnical engineering
• • Rock mechanics, tunnelling and deep excavations
• • Geotechnics of pavements
• • Offshore geotechnics
• • Geology and geophysics
• • Applications of GIS, AI & ML

Structural Engineering

• • Repair and rehabilitation of structures
• • Structural dynamics &earthquake engineering
• • Structural health monitoring
• • Light weight structures
• • Design and development of tall structures
• • Offshore structures
• • Applications of GIS, AI & ML
• • Bamboo reinforced concrete
• • Bridge engineering
• • Performance based structural design
• • Computational structural engineering
• • Industrial RCC structures and cooling towers

Pre-Stressed and Prefabricated Structures

• • Pre-engineered structures
• • Precast structural system
• • Prestressed concrete
• • Low-cost housing systems
• • 3D printing of structural elements
• • Precast prestressed concrete pavement

Transportation Engineering&Advances in Surveying

• • Highway drainage management
• • City planning and traffic informatics
• • Urban transportation planning model
• • Intelligent transportation systems
• • Vehicle infrastructure integration
• • Pavement materials and design
• • Innovate transportation system
• • Parking behaviours and polices
• • Applications of GIS, AI & ML
• • Maintenance of pavements
• • Airport planning and management
• • Track health monitoring and maintenance

Water Resource Engineering

• • Hydrological modeling
• • Climate change impact assessment on water resources
• • River flow dynamics in channel and flood plains
• • Reservoir sedimentation
• • Groundwater modeling and management
• • Irrigation and drainage management
• • Flood forecasting and management
• • Urban water and drainage management
• • Drought assessment & mitigation
• • Rehabilitation of dams
• • Hydraulic structures
• • Watershed management