Advances in Construction Materials and Management

Dr. Aneetha V is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology Warangal. She obtained her Ph.D. in Building Technology and Construction Management from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She has experience in academia and construction industry. She has worked in Qatar as Planning Engineer. Her major area of research includes construction project management such as n-dimensional planning, underground utility relocation, building information modeling, construction contracts and lean construction. She has completed an Early Career Research Award project funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (Department of science and Technology), namely “Development of Road Information Modelling based coordination method for utility relocations.” She has published in reputed journals, conferences and books. Dr. Shamsher Bahadur Singh is P.E. (Civil) License Holder from thestate of Michigan, USA, and Post-doctorate (LTU), USA, Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE), and currently Senior Professor of Civil Engineering Department at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani. He obtained his Ph.D. in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and completed his PDF in Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan. His current areas of research are development of design guidelines for functionally graded composite materials and fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)-reinforced prestressed concrete structures in particular and composite materials and structures in general including nonlinear finite element modeling. He has published in reputed journals, conferences and books. Dr. Venkata Santosh Kumar is Anantrao Jagtap Chair Associate Professor of Construction Management in Civil Engineering Department at IIT Bombay. He has obtained his Ph.D. in Construction Management from Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras. His research interests include information management on large engineering projects. Particularly, he works on building information modeling (BIM), AI/ML applications in construction management, construction contract management, AR/VR/MR applications in construction safety and planning. He is also actively involved in a number of projects that aim at providing policy and strategy guidance to various governmental agencies and private companies. He has published in reputed journals, conferences, book chapters and technical reports.