Focus Areas:

• Bidding and tendering strategies, contracts management
• Construction project controls, scheduling techniques, cost management
• Lifecycle costing, innovative project delivery models
• Lean construction
• Health, safety and environment issues in construction
• Construction quality management
• Social networks in construction
• Risk management in construction
• Complexities in Construction Projects
• Project manager’s competencies in managing construction projects

...and allied areas

Focus Areas:

• Modular and off-site construction
• Structural health monitoring, construction forensics
• Construction defect analysis
• Innovative construction technologies
• Low cost construction technologies and materials
• Indigenous construction technologies
• Supplementary cementitious materials
• Highrise construction and disaster resilient structures
• Pavement and geotechnical engineering

...and allied areas

Sub-Tracks:

• Sub-Track 2.1: Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Structures
  (Proposed by Dr. Arpit Goyal, Thapar University, Patiala)
• Sub-Track 2.2: Advances in sustainable and green construction materials
  (Proposed by Dr. Maninder Singh, Punjabi University, Patiala)
• Sub-Track 2.3: Advances in Construction Technologies and Materials
  (Proposed by Dr. Vanita Aggarwal, MM(DU), Mullana, Ambala)
• Sub-Track 2.4: Advanced Construction Materials
  (Proposed by Dr. Parveen Berwal, Galgotia univeristy, Greater Noida)
• Sub-Track 2.5: Strength and Durability Studies on Concrete and Related Composites
  (Proposed by Dr. Nakul Gupta, GLA University, Mathura)
• Sub-Track 2.6: Environmentally Sustainable Construction Materials
  (Proposed by Dr. Arun Kumar Parashar, GLA Univeristy, Mathura)
• Sub-Track 2.7: Low-carbon Building Materials and Green Construction
  (Proposed by Dr. G. Mohan Ganesh, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore)

Focus Areas:

• Construction waste management
• Green construction practices
• Low carbon construction processes
• Life cycle cost assessment of built environment
• Clean technologies in construction
• Infrastructure resilience
• Resilient construction
• Innovations in sustainable construction techniques

...and allied areas

Sub-Tracks:

• Sub-Track 3.1: Sustainable Highway and Airport Pavements
  (Proposed by Dr. Tanuj Chopra, Thapar University, Patiala)
• Sub-Track 3.2: Sustainable Construction and Waste Management: Micro to Nano Technology
  (Proposed by Dr. Rishav Garg, GCET, Greater Noida)
• Sub-Track 3.3: Innovations in Materials For Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructures
  (Proposed by Dr. Rajiv Chauhan, PTU, Jalandhar)

Focus Areas:

• Application of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in construction
• Big data analytics in construction
• Information visualization and data modelling in construction
• Blockchain applications in construction
• Building Information Modelling (3D, 4D, 5D BIM and beyond)
• Augmented reality and virtual reality
• Robotics and automation
• Cyber-physical systems
• Additive manufacturing (3-D printing) application in construction

...and allied areas

Focus Areas:

• Infrastructure and real estate finance
• Innovative financing
• Financial risk management
• Marketing communication
• Communication management
• Green marketing strategies
• Employer attractiveness
• Talent management, productivity, skill and competency development
• Mental health and well being
• Organisational culture
• Diversity and inclusion
• Corporate governance, ethics, and ESG
• Stakeholder management
• Management of family owned businesses
• Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues
• Influence of policy/macro environmental changes

...and allied areas

Focus Areas:

• Megaproject management
• Complex project management
• Complex adaptive systems and agent-based models
• Agile project management
• Theory of constraints and critical chain project management
• Project risk management issues
• Knowledge management in megaprojects
• Management and governance issues in oil & gas, energy and pipeline projects
• Management of cross functional teams and international collaborations
• Management of mega infrastructure projects (highways, airports, ports, offshore)

...and allied areas

Focus Areas:

• Urban renewal and regeneration
• Land use and transport interrelations
• Affordable housing
• Real estate finance, real estate market research
• Land management and land use policy
• Urban finance
• Rural planning, GIS in planning, city governance, planning theory, urban design, climate resilience
• Smart cities and governance
• Urban infrastructure planning
• Urban environment and health
• Regulatory issues
• Asset management of real estate properties
• Facility management
• Housing price and government policies related to the real estate sector
• Transit oriented development
• Architecture and design in real estate sector

...and allied areas

Focus Areas:

• Sustainable development goals and the CRIP sector
• Green buildings
• Green energy initiatives in the CRIP sector
• Energy policies
• Influence of the CRIP sector in rising pollution level and mitigation strategies
• Carbon credit and carbon footprint assessment
• Lifecycle assessment from a sustainability lens
• Accreditation and regulatory frameworks in sustainability focused initiatives
• Sustainable finance

...and allied areas

Focus Areas:

• Innovations and Technology
• Circular business models and their applicability to various industries and sectors
• Circular design and packaging
• Waste management and reduction
• Sustainable production
• Consumer behavior and education
• Circular cities and urbanization
• Circular economy financing
• Social dimensions and inclusion
• Policy and regulation
• Achieving Clean Water, Clean Land and Clean Air through 3R and Resource Efficiency

...and allied areas

Focus Areas:

• Decarbonization of supply chain operations in constructions management
• Circularity for construction and building materials from the perspective of supply chain.
• Circular supply chain for Nanomaterials in products and processes
• Innovative business models for the net-zero goals
• Strategic frameworks for measuring the effectiveness of construction supply chain in the context of net-zero
• The role of emissions trading in achieving climate neutral supply chains
• Efforts to reduce waste to operate climate-neutral supply chains

...and allied areas

Focus Areas:

• Productivity in Construction Sector: Skilling, Upskilling, Reskilling and beyond.
• Efficient Delivery of Infrastructure Projects: New Paradigms in the wake of transformative programs like PM Gati Shakti.
• Psychology of Collaboration for Enhanced Effectiveness: Ideas for building collaborative platforms to institutionalize the transformation of construction industry.
• Reinventing technical education in India: Imbibing Industry Relevant Skills for employability in India's Construction Sector
• Inclusivity in Construction Workplace: Navigating Gender, Linguistic and Social barriers to leverage productivity.

...and allied areas

Focus Areas:

• Wind loads on low-rise buildings, high-rise buildings, cooling towers, bridges, transmission and communication towers, canopy roofs
• Wind loads on off-shore structures
• Effects of tornadoes on low rise buildings and attached projections
• Effect of tornadoes on tall buildings and towers
• Effect of local topography on wind loads on buildings and other structures
• Interference effect
• AI and ML in Wind Engineering
• Urban wind environment
• Wind induced vibrations and control
• Wind turbines
• Application of CFD in:
  • Air quality and temperature control
  • Energy harvesting from extreme winds
  • Effect of openings on high-rise and low-rise buildings
  • Effect of aerodynamic shape modifications on high-rise and low-rise buildings
  • Modern mitigation techniques to reduce wind induced loads and vibrations on high-rise buildings

Focus Areas:

• Adoptable materials for the sustainability of multifunctional structure
• Synthesis, characterization, application, and modelling of the adoptable multifunctional materials
• Sensing, Energy storage, storage, fuel cells, advanced semiconductors, nano-multifunctional materials, materials for robotics and healthcare
• Environmental Sustainability by multifunctional materials
• Computational and numerical analysis of advanced materials and manufacturing
• Design of experiments, additive/subtractive rapid prototype, machining and computational design and modeling
• Design process and product development for innovation models
• Hot deformation of metal and high entropy alloys: microstructure and mechanical properties
• Severe plastic deformation methods or various types of the complex thermomechanical processing
• Incorporation of high entropy properties in the advanced materials (shape memory alloy, piezoelectric metal, magnetostrictive metal, electrostrictive metal, dielectric metal, metallic biomaterial, and Ultralight metal).

...and allied areas