3. FORUM OBJECTIVES
• Knowledge sharing sessions where members can share best
practices.
• Discussion forum where common problems faced by E & C Industry
are presented by some members and open for others to comment
upon or offer advice. Specific issues and cases can also be
presented so that potential solutions can be offered.
• Neutral Platform for Academia-Industry interface which helps in
preparing the talent for industry and providing Industry well
researched tools and techniques, while getting feedback from the
Industry on curriculum to support Industry requirements
5. Civil Department & BTCM Group
• Highly Reputed Civil Eng
Program in the India
• Conventional U.G. Program
• Graduate programs in all
general areas of Civil
Engineering
• Doctoral Program
• Extensive industry interaction
6. Dr. K. Ananthanarayanan, Professor
Ph.D., IIT Madras, Chennai, India
• Project Planning and Control
• Construction Management
• Project Scheduling and Monitoring
• Resource Management
• Surveying
Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
• Infrastructure and Construction Planning and Management
• Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
• Urbanization and Sustainable Development
• Building Information Modeling and Integrated Project
Delivery
IIT Madras
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CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
7. IIT Madras
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Dr. K. N. Satyanarayana, Professor
Ph.D., Clemson University, Clemson, USA
• Infrastructure and Construction Management
• Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
• Construction Contracts
• Construction Equipment
Dr. Sivakumar Palaniappan, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
• Sustainable Construction
• Modeling and Simulation of Construction Processes
• Information Technology in Construction
Dr. Koshy Varghese, Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, USA
• Automation and Computer Integrated Construction
• Planning- Fast Track & Concurrent Engineering Projects
• Information Technology & Lean Construction
8. Mr. N. Raghavan, Distinguished Visiting Professor
IIT Madras, IIT Bombay; FNAE, FICE(UK), FIE(I)
• Construction Management
• Construction Contracts
• Construction Methods & Equipment
• Structural Designs
• Repairs & Rehabilitation
IIT Madras
Dr. A. Ramakrishna, Adjunct Professor
D.Sc. Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam, India
Ph.D. [Hon.], Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India
FNAE, FIE, FICE (UK), FASCE
• Construction Management and Large-scale Construction
• Pre-cast Construction
9. Industry Focused Activities
• Industry Based
Teaching Programs
• Industry Sponsored
Laboratories
• On-Going Research
Projects
12. AUTODESK LABORATORY- Comp Intg. Const.
Initiated 2007
Develop curriculum to
enhance teaching-
learning
Evaluate impact of
using virtual design &
construction in the
teaching-learning
process
Research on Building
Information Modeling
Technologies
14. Objective:
To identify the practices
involved in the delivery of
transnational projects
across firms and to
explore on knowledge
coordination across
organizational
boundaries?
Shobha R. & Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam
Sub objectives:
1. Practices and sub-practices involved
in the delivery of transnational
projects
2. Practices are enacted to coordinate
knowledge across boundaries?
3. Mitigation of risk to enhance the
reliability of delivery
15. Objective:
To investigate the
influence of
integrating product
development and
associated
information
management on the
performance of
building design
process
Jeevan Jacob & Dr. Koshy Varghese
Sub objectives
1. Analyze & identify the gaps in
information management
2. Framework for integrating product
and process information
management processes
3. To evaluate the framework
experimentally using a prototype
16. Implementing BIM in construction projects
Objective: To study the factors influencing the BIM adoption
in construction projects through Transaction cost economics
approach
V Santosh Kumar & Dr.Ashwin Mahalingam
Area: Innovative technologies & construction projects
Objective: To study the effect of incorporating alignment and
coordination in successful implementation of BIM and ERP
Vinay Mathews, Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam & Dr. Koshy Varghese
17. Objective:
To investigate the
characteristics of the
Lean concept of Flow
in design process of
construction projects.
Thirumalai Rajan & Dr. Koshy Varghese
Sub objectives
1. Study the characteristics of
information flow in Construction
design process.
2. Determine interventions that
can be used to iflow-based
process and improve flow
characteristics in construction
design process.
18. To develop a framework for integrating project management and
sustainability metrics during project planning.
L Pinky & Dr. Sivakumar Palaniappan
K. Narayanaperumal & Dr. Koshy Varghese
Formulate a model to minimize the energy consumption of IITM
faculty offices
Ram V. G. & Dr. Satyanarayana K. N.
To track and effectively utilize Construction & Demolision Waste
19. Objective:
To investigate the influence of the interaction between the
institutional environment and the project governance strategies on
the post award outcomes of PPP in infrastructure projects
Venkata Santosh & Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam
Objective:
To derive a 'flexibility metric' for PPP projects enabling us to assess the
possible governance issues during the life cycle of the project
C. Prathapmohan Nair & Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam
Objective:
To identify the issues and impediments in the shifting of utilities &
develop a framework to model and assess coordination
Aneetha V. & Prof. Satyanarayana K.N
20. Activities Planned
IIT Madras will provide the neutral platform for:
• Regular meetings, initially once every 2 months:
• Presentation by academic research team or sub-committee on key issues.
• Knowledge sharing of international best practice by one of the members.
• Video discussions using webinars, moderated by experts
• Strategy discussion on developing talent pool, dependable tools and
vendors/contractors for E&C projects.
• Annual conference
