Sanrachna Draft 2022-23 V3 10-08-2023

SANRACHNA VOLUME 3: 2023

Sanrachna Volume 3: 2022-23 Department of Civil Engineering Institute of Technology, Nirma University Ahmedabad – 382 481

VISION OF THE DEPARTMENT To be known as an internationally acclaimed centre in Civil Engineering for its excellence in education, technological and sustainable innovation and contribution for the betterment of the society. MISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT To facilitate development of knowledgeable, responsible and ethical leaders in the field of Civil Engineering through the holistic and experiential learning process. To engage in research and innovation for the betterment of society. To emerge as a reliable knowledge resource for the industry, academia and society.

Contents 01 02 1. Message from Director‟s Desk 03 2. Preface 03 3. Glimpse of the Department 03 05 a. Introduction 06 b. Programmes Offered and Student Strength c. List of Faculty and Staff Members d. Laboratories 4. Faculty Achievements 5. Student Achievements 6. Research Contributions a. Journal Paper Publications b. Conference Paper Presentations c. Research Projects d. Revenue Generation through Research 7. Departmental Activities Workshop / STTP / FDP / Trainings a. Expert Lectures / Webinars b. Community Outreach c. Alumni Activities 8. Creative Corner

Preface It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you to this issue of „SANRACHNA‟ the annual newsletter of the Civil Engineering Department at Institute of Technology, Nirma University. This publication is dedicated to keeping you informed about the latest news, events, and achievements of our department, as well as providing insights into the fascinating world of civil engineering. Through „Sanrachna‟ we aim to share updates on the latest research and academic developments in the field of civil engineering, as well as profiles of our faculty and students along with their achievements during the academic year. You will also have the opportunity to learn about the diverse range of projects undertaken by our department, from sustainable buildings to developing innovative solutions for societal issues being faced by modern engineers. I hope that this newsletter will serve as a valuable resource for our community and provide insights into the exciting work being done by the Faculty , staff and students at Civil Engineering Department. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all those who have contributed to this publication, and I look forward to your continued support in the future. Dr. Urmil Dave Professor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Technology, Nirma University 1

Glimpses of the Department List of Faculty Members S. No. Name Designation Area of Expertise 01. Dr. Urmil Dave Professor and Head Experimental Investigations of 02. Dr. Paresh V. Patel Professor Structures, Structural Engineering, Sustainable Materials Structural Engineering 03. Dr. Parul R. Patel Professor Application of Geomatics, Construction 04. Dr. Sharad P. Purohit Professor Management Structural Engineering 05. Dr. K. K. Tripathi Associate Professor Construction Management 06. Dr. Sonal P. Thakkar Assistant Professor Structural Engineering 07. Dr. Digesh D. Joshi Assistant Professor Structural Engineering 08. Dr. Tejas M. Joshi Assistant Professor Structural Engineering 09. Prof. J. M. Suthar Assistant Professor Structural Engineering 10. Prof. Hemang A. Dalwadi Assistant Professor Transportation Engineering 11. Prof. Utsav Koshti Assistant Professor Structural Engineering 12. Dr. Hasan M. Rangwala Assistant Professor Geotechnical Engineering 13. Prof. Sunil D. Raiyani Assistant Professor Structural Engineering 14. Prof. A. M. Shah Assistant Professor Geotechnical Engineering 15. Prof. V. G. Kothari Assistant Professor Structural Engineering 16. Prof. Anant D. Patel Assistant Professor Water Resource Management 17. Prof. Arth Patel Assistant Professor Structural Engineering 18. Prof. Keval Jodhani Assistant Professor Morphological Changes in Coastal 19. Dr. Manish Dutta Region, Water Resource Management Assistant Professor Transportation Engineering 20. Dr. Swati Sirsant Assistant Professor Water Resource Management 21. Dr. Prachi Kushwaha Assistant Professor Transportation Engineering 22. Dr. Naman Kantesaria Assistant Professor Geotechnical Engineering 23. Dr. Nitesh Gupta Assistant Professor Remote Sensing and GIS 24. Dr. Lukman Mansuri Assistant Professor Construction Technology and 25. Dr. Vishal Lad Management Assistant Professor Construction Technology and 2

26. Prof. Purvesh Raval Assistant Professor Management 27. Dr. Somil Thakur Assistant Professor Construction Engineering and Project management Environmental Engineering List of Technical Staff Members S. No. Name Designation 01. Rajendra Shah Laboratory Supervisor 02. Prahlad Raval Laboratory Supervisor 03. Dhara Joshi Laboratory Assistant 04. Sunil Regar Laboratory Assistant 05. Satyaprakash Chauhan Laboratory Assistant List of Administrative Staff Members S. No. Name Designation 01. Dipak Bhatt Assistant 02. Hitendra Purohit Assistant 3

Laboratories- New Addition  Water Resources Engineering Lab Water Resources Engineering laboratory is the new addition to the Civil Engineering Department. The main aim of the lab is to impart technical knowledge by using practicals related to Water Resources Engineering which will improve the fundamental understanding of hydrologic systems and processes, design and analysis of water resources structures. Water Resources Engineering laboratory facilitates students for measurement of rainfall, infiltration, discharge in river or canal, evaporation etc. Major Equipment available in the laboratory: Rainfall Runoff simulator, Non-Recording Raingauge, Tipping bucket rain gauge, Pan Evaporimeter, Double Ring Infiltrometer, Soil Tensiometer, Water level indicator, current meter for velocity measurement. 4

Faculty Achievements 1. At 26th ISTE Gujarat State Annual Faculty Convention 2022 and Conference on \"Global Exigencies for Smart & Sustainable Technologies\" organized by ISTE and Indus Institute of Technology & Engineering, Ahmedabad on April 27, 2023. The paper authored by Sonal Thakkar, Abhishek Chanda and Shivanjali Rawat, titled \" Use of Industrial Waste-Calcium Carbide Residue in activating one part Sodium hydroxide in geopolymer paste\", has secured 2nd best paper award. 2. Dr. Nitesh Gupta, Assistant Professor, CED, IT-NU won the first position in badminton doubles tournament during inter-institute sports competition. He was also the runner up in badminton singles category. 5

3. Faculty members of Civil Engineering Department, Nirma University attended and presented their research work in the prestigious 17th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (17 SEE) at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. 4. Prof. Hemang Dalwadi presented a research paper at the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Opportunities and Challenges-2023 (SIIOC-2023), held on April 20th & 21st, 2023, at NITK SURATHKAL. The paper, titled \"Road Material Identification and Condition Assessment Using Field Spectrometer,\" was co-authored by Dr. Parul Patel (Prof Patel) and showcases their innovative research approach in identifying the material used for road construction and assessing the condition of the road using a field spectrometer. 6

Student Achievements 1. Jenish Patel (20MCLC10) received the Best Paper Award / Certificate for presenting a paper on \"Comparative Study of Outrigger and Wall-Frame Structural Systems in Steel-Concrete Composite Tall Buildings\" during the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Infrastructure, organized at PDEU, Gandhinagar, from August 23-25, 2022. 2. IIT Bombay organized AAKAR-Annual Civil Engineering Technical Festival for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Civil Engineering. Studentsfrom the Civil Engineering Department, ITNU participated in CONQUER – IT technical event of IIT Bombay. Conquer-IT was a competition to test participants' ability to design and cast pervious concrete with high compressive and flexural strength. The event had 3 rounds of competition. The program was organized on 18th March 2023 at IIT Bombay. The top 19 teams were selected for the final round. The final round team of Shivam Akbari (21MCLC01), Jeet Machhoya (21BCL065), and Om Mehta (21BCL070) finished second runners up. 3. CEPT organized one day workshop on “Google Earth Engine and its applications in remote sensing” on 18th March 2023. Three students of 8th semester, Krisee Patel (19BCL082), Rinali Patel (19BCL090), and Nirali Chaudhari (19BCL014) attended the workshop. 7

4. Two research groups of B.Tech. 8th Sem Civil Engineering Department, Nirma University students has presented their research work at an international conference, “Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Opportunities and Challenges” organised by National Institute of Technology Karnataka on 20th & 21st April 2023 (SIIOC-2023), at NITK Surathkal, Mangalore. 8

Research Contributions Journal Paper Publications 1. Suman Ganguly, Manish Dutta, Tamojit Ghosh, Mokaddes Ali Ahmed, Bhargab Maitra “Systemic approach to revamp unsignalized intersections using multi-criteria decision making: a comparison of alternative solutions” Advances in Transportation Studies, 57, 31-48, July 2022. 2. Mihir Padsumbiya, Vedant Brahmbhatt, Sonal P Thakkar “Automatic Crack Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network”, Journal of Soft Computing in Civil Engineering, vol 6, issue 3, pp. 1-17, July 2022. 3. Joshi, T., Dave, U. Development of Mixture Design of Pervious Concrete with Changing Coarse Aggregate Size. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. A 103, 733–745 (July 17, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40030-022-00660-2 4. Mauli Bhatt, Nisarg Patel, Tejas M. Joshi, Hemanth Kamplimath, Darshan Shah, Impact of COVID-19 on ready-mix concrete (RMC) industry in Ahmedabad – A case study, Materials Today: Proceedings, Volume 65, Part 8, 2022, Pages 3852-3859,ISSN 2214-7853, (July 12, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.07.061. 5. Garg, V., Patel, A.J. & Purohit, S. Experimental Investigations on Axial–Flexural Behaviour of Slender Concrete Filled Steel Tubular Columns. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. A 103, 1089–1100 (August 07, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40030-022-00670-0 6. Kantesaria, N., Cui, G., Garala, T. K., Doan, N. P., Haldar, K., Heron, C., and Marshall, A. Foundation Systems for Sustainable Revitalisation of Spoil Dump Areas. Journal of Opencast Mining, Volume LXIII, 4/2022, ISSN: 0043-2075. (October 6, 2022). 7. Cui, G., Garala, T. K., Kantesaria, N., Haldar, K., Doan, N. P., Heron, C., and Marshall, A. Centrifuge Modelling of Spoil Slopes within Pit-lake Mine Reclamations. Journal of Opencast Mining, Volume LXIII, 3/2022, ISSN: 0043-2075. (October 6, 2022). 8. Garala, T. K., Cui, G., Kantesaria, N., Heron, C., and Marshall, A. Characterization of Spoil Materials to Develop an Equivalent Spoil Material for Physical Model Tests. Journal of Opencast Mining, Volume LXIII, 4/2022, ISSN: 0043-2075. (October 6, 2022). 9. Garala, T. K., Cui, G., Kantesaria, N., Heron, C., and Marshall, A. The Challenges Associated with Laboratory Scale Physical Modeling of High-Plasticity Spoil Materials. Journal of Opencast Mining, Volume LXIII, 3/2022, ISSN: 0043-2075. (October 6, 2022). 10. Haldar, K., Doan, N. P., Garala, T. K., Cui, G., Kantesaria, N., Heron, C., and Marshall, A. Effect of Spatial Variation of Spoil Material Properties on Slope Displacements under Rapid 9

Drawdown of Pit Lakes. Journal of Opencast Mining, Volume LXIII, 4/2022, ISSN: 0043-2075. (October 6, 2022). 11. Doan, N. P., Liakou, A., Garala, T. K., Cui, G., Kantesaria, N., Haldar, K., Heron, C., and Marshall, A. Development of an Advanced Constitutive Model for Spoil-Structure Interaction Problems. Journal of Opencast Mining, Volume LXIII, 3/2022, ISSN: 0043-2075. (October 6, 2022). 12. Prajapati, A., Rangwala, H. Utilization of Recycled Construction and Demolition Waste in Backfill Soil. Int. J. of Geosynth. and Ground Eng. 8, 67 (October 10, 2022). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40891-022-00410-1 13. Nirjhar Gupta, Jitendra Patel, Nitesh Gupta, Amit Vishwakarma (2022) „Urban Organic Waste as a Source of Bioenergy for Electricity Generation in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh‟, IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci., Vol. 1084. (20 October 2022) . DOI: 10.1088/1755- 1315/1084/1/012024 14. Bora Leena, Thakkar Sonal, Vadaliya Kevin, Bora Nisha, “Waste fly asheZnO as a novel sunlight-responsive photocatalyst for dye discoloration”, Water Science and Engineering, Elsevier Publication (article in press). (20 October 2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wse.2022.11.001 15. Anant Patel, S. M. Yadav; Stream flow prediction using TIGGE ensemble precipitation forecast data for Sabarmati river basin. Water Supply (November 01, 2022);https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2022.362 16. Nishant Sachdeva, Prachi Kushwaha, D. K. Sharma (2023), “Impact of clay brick dust on durability parameters of bituminous concrete”, Materials Today: Proceedings, Vol. 80 (1), pp. 110-115. [DOI: 10.1016/j.matpr.2022.10.284] 17. Pulkit Mathur, Tejas Joshi, Urmil Dave, “Impact of recycled aggregates on mechanical properties of concrete”, Materials Today: Proceedings, (November 23, 2022) In Press [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.11.067] 18. Sirsant, S., Hamouda, M. A., Shaaban, M. F., & Al Bardan, M. S. (2022). A Chaotic Sobol Sequence-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for optimal design and expansion of water networks. Sustainable Cities and Society, 87, 104215, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.104215 19. Jayachandra Ravi, Rahul Nigam, Bimal.K. Bhattacharya, Devansh Desai, Parul Patel, Retrieval of crop biophysical-biochemical variables from airborne AVIRIS-NG data using hybrid inversion of PROSAIL-D, Advances in Space Research, November 2022, ISSN 0273-1177, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2022.11.047. 10

20. Abhishek Chanda, Shivanjali Rawat, Thakkar Sonal, Dave Urmil, Joshi Tejas “Influence on compressive strength of concrete by partial replacement of river sand with fly ash geopolymer sand”, Materials Today Proceeding, Article in Press. 21. Foram Shah, Raj Oza, Daivee Vyas, Tejas Joshi , Sonal Thakkar , Urmil Dave, “Effect on mechanical properties of geopolymer concrete by addition of polypropylene fibers, Materials Today Proceeding, Article in Press 22. Prachi Kushwaha, Avanish Singh Chauhan (2023) “Pavement Design and Construction using Warm Mix Asphalt: A Bibliometric Overview” Materials Today Proceedings, March 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2023.03.040. 23. Anant Patel, Nisarg Soni, Unnati Goel, Ruchita Bhoj, Yakshi Adhyaru, Neha Keriwala and S M Yada (2023) “Rainfall Prediction using Machine Learning Techniques for Sabarmati River Basin, Gujarat, India” Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review 16(1):101-108, March 2023, DOI: 10.25103/jestr.161.13 24. Balgude Rutuja, Anant Patel, (2023) “Flood inundation mapping of upper Krishna basin using hydrodynamic model” Disaster Advances, Vol. 16(4); 8-15; doi: https://doi.org/10.25303/1604da08015 25. Naman Kantesaria, Tanaya Mukati & Ajanta Sachan (2023): Stress-history impact on yielding, shear and energy dissipation response of earthen dam soil under static and cyclic loading conditions, Geomechanics and Geoengineering, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17486025.2023.2207531 26. Suthar, J. et al. (2023) “Seismic behaviour of re-entrant dominant RC frame buildings,” Research on Engineering Structures and Materials. MIM Research Group. doi: 10.17515/resm2022.629me1230. 27. Jitendra Patel, Nitesh Gupta, Poojalakshami E.S, Sunantha B, Geethu Elsa Thomas, Nirjhar Gupta, B.S. Thomas, Satyam Dwivedi (2023) „A Novel Low Carbon Cementitious Binder Incorporating Yellow Sand and Clinker for Non-Structural Applications‟ ,Materials Today- Proceeding DOI- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2023.04.529. 28. Jitendra Patel, Blessen Skariah Thomas, Nitesh Gupta, Geetu Elsa Thomas, Babitha Benjamin (2023) „Structural Optimisation in term of Carbon Emission and Cost using Agrifical Aggregates‟,Materials Today-Proceeding, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2023.04.588 29. Ashu Soni, Jitendra Patel, Pooja Lakshami E.S, Sunantha Sunan, Nitesh Gupta, Blessen Skariah (2023) „Study for Development of Flyash and GGBS-Based Alkali Activated Foam Concrete‟, Materials Today-Proceeding. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2023.04.581 11

Conference Paper Presentations 1. Anant Patel, Ayushi Panchal, S M Yadav “Statistical Post Processing of Ensemble Precipitation forecasts for Indian Catchment” International Conference on Climate and Weather-Related Extremes (ICCWE-2022) organized by Department of Water Resources Development and Management, IIT-Roorkee from 19-20 September 2022. 2. Rinkesh Makawana, Digesh D. Joshi and Paresh V. Patel, “Seismic Strengthening of Precast Beam Column Connection using Stainless Steel Wire Mesh (SSWM)”, 17th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (17SEE) held at the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee during 14th - 17th November 2022. 3. Apurva R. Prajapati and Hasan M. Rangwala, “Numerical Analysis of a Rigid Wall Retaining Soil Reinforced with C&D Waste”, 17th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (17SEE) held at the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee during 14th - 17th November 2022. 4. Abhishek Patel, Utsav K. Koshti and Sharadkumar P. Purohit “Parameter Study on ADAS Metallic Damper”, 17th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (17SEE) held at the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee during 14th - 17th November 2022. 5. Tushar Bhoraniya and Sharadkumar P. Purohit, “Damping Characteristics of Next-gen Masonry Infilled RC Panels: Experimental Investigations”, 17th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (17SEE) held at the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee during 14th - 17th November 2022. 6. Jenish Patel and Paresh V. Patel, “Site Specific Response Spectrum Analysis of Various Wall- Frame Composite Tall Buildings”, 17th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (17SEE) held at the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee during 14th - 17th November 2022 7. Ayushi Panchal, Anant Patel, S.M. Yadav, “A Review on Post Processing Methods for Hydro meteorological Ensemble Forecast” 27th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Environmental and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2022) Organized by The Department of Civil Engineering of Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh during 22-24 Dec, 2022 8. Alka Shah, Tejas Thakker, “Influence of Polyethylene Terephthalate Waste on Mechanical Properties of Clayey Soil”, Indian Geotechnical Conference 2022 held at kochi by the Indian Geotechnical Society, Kochi Chapter and Cochin University of Science and Technology during 12

December 15-17, 2022. 9. Rawat Shivanjali, Thakkar Sonal, Andharia Bhoomi, “Impact on Compressive strength of Alkali activated mortar with gypsum as replacement of fly ash and GGBFS” International Conference on Recent Developments in Civil Engineering (RDC) 2022, MNIT, Allahabad, 21-22 October 2022. 10. Abhishek Chanda, Thakkar Sonal “Compressive Strength of Sustainable Geopolymer Mortar with Calcium Carbide Residue”, International Conference on Recent Developments in Civil Engineering (RDC) 2022, MNIT, Allahabad, 21-22 October 2022. 11. Abhishek Chanda, Shivanjali Rawat, Sonal Thakkar, Tejas Joshi and Urmil Dave, “Influence on compressive strength of concrete by partial replacement of river sand with fly ash geopolymer sand” Second International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS) December 2022, NIT, Calicut 12. J.M. Suthar, U.K. Koshti, S.P. Purohit, HJ Jadeja “Moment Curvature of Reinforced Concrete beams-An analytical and experimental validation” ASPS Conference Proceedings, 2022, Vol. 1086, page 619-623, 12th Structural Engineering Convention, (SEC 2022), MNIT, Jaipur, 19-22 December, 2022 13. Malhar P. Naik, Utsav Koshti “Design of Metallic Dampers and Analysis Using MATLAB Program” ASPS Conference Proceedings, 2022, Vol. 1086, page 1081-1086, 12th Structural Engineering Convention, (SEC 2022), MNIT, Jaipur, 19-22 December, 2022 14. D. B. Parekh, J. M. Suthar and S. P. Purohit, “Seismic performance of RC plane frame building Irregular in Mass”, Proceedings of 12th Structural Engineering Convention, (SEC 2022), ASPS Conference Proceedings 1: 711-717 (December 2022). 15. Patel Arth J. and Purohit Sharadkumar P., “Axial-Flexural Behaviour of Concrete Filled Double Skinned Steel Tabular (CFDST) Composite Column: Experimental Investigations”, Second International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS-2022), Jointly organized by NITCalicut-India, University of Bath-UK, Monash University-Malasiya, Virginia Tech.-USA, Purdue University-USA, University of New South Wales-Australia and BITSPilani- India, December 2022 16. Andheria Bhoomi, Dhar Sagarkia, Thakkar Sonal, Dave Urmil and Patel Karan,“Sustainable High Volume Fly Ash Concrete with Recycled C&D waste and Dredged Marine Sand” Second International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS) December 2022, NIT, Calicut. 17. Foram Shah, Daviee Vyas, Raj Oza, Tejas Joshi, Sonal Thakkar and Urmil Dave, “Effect on mechanical properties of geopolymer concrete by addition of polypropylene fibers” Second 13

International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS) December 2022, NIT, Calicut. 18. Yash Khunt, Vatsal Nathwani, Hetavi Patel, Tejas Joshi and Dhiren Gandhi, “Investigation on Properties of Autoclave Aerated Concrete using Different Pre-curing and Curing Techniques” Second International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS) December 2022, NIT, Calicut. 19. Abhishek Chanda, Shivanjali Rawat, Sonal Thakkar, Tejas Joshi and Urmil Dave, “Influence on compressive strength of concrete by partial replacement of river sand with fly ash geopolymer sand” Second International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS) December 2022, NIT, Calicut. 20. Sunil Raiyani, Paresh Patel, Digesh Joshi, Savan Ramani, “Numerical Study on Role of Shear Key in Precast beam to beam connection subjected to Torsion” 12th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC 2022), December 2022, MNIT, Jaipur. 21. Parthav P. Patel and Digesh D. Joshi, “Comparative Study of Progressive Collapse Potential of Steel Moment Resisting Frame and Braced Frame”, 12th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC 2022), December 2022, MNIT, Jaipur. 22. Rinkesh V. Makawana, Paresh V. Patel and Digesh D. Joshi, “Seismic Performance of Exterior RC Beam-Column Junction Strengthened with Stainless Steel Wire Mesh (SSWM)”, 2nd International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS 2022), December 2022, NIT, Calicut. 23. Prasad Karad, Paresh V Patel, “Geometric Nonlinear Analysis of RC Frame Structure using Applied Element Method (AEM)”, 12th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC 2022), 19-22 December 2022, MNIT, Jaipur. 24. Dipesh Mehtani, Paresh V. Patel, “Evaluation of Seismic Performance factors for Concrete Filled Steel Tube Diagrid Structural System”, 2th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC 2022), 19-22 December 2022, MNIT, Jaipur. 25. Jenish Y. Patel, Paresh Patel, “Comparative Study of Outrigger and Wall-Frame Structual Systems in Steel-Concrete Composite Tall Buildings”, 1st International Conference on Innovation in Smart and Sustainable Infrastructure (ISSI-2022) Organized by Civil Engineering Department, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University-Gandinagar during 23rd to 25th August 2022. 26. Paresh Patel, Digesh Joshi, Rinkesh V. Makawana, Kevin Patel, “Experimental Study on behaviour of Concrete Beams Strengthened using Stainless Steel Wire Mesh (SSWM)”, 1st International Conference on Innovation in Smart and Sustainable Infrastructure (ISSI-2022) 14

Organized by Civil Engineering Department, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University-Gandinagar during 23rd to 25th August 2022. 27. Jitendra Patel, Nitesh Gupta, Blessen Skariah (2022) „Study for Development of Flyash and GGBS-Based Alkali Activated Foam Concrete‟, 2nd International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS 2022) organized by National Institute of Technology, Calicut during December 13 to 19, 2022. 28. Urmil Dave, Dipak Bholanda, Jayesh Ruparelia (2023), “Challenges and constraints faced during pilot studies for steel production from mill scale”, India-Australia Joint Workshop on Critical Minerals Research For Sustainable Transition to Green Energy organized by IIT Bombay during March 3-4, 2023. 29. Hemanth M. Kamplimath, Urmil V. Dave, Vineet G. Khothari. (2023), “Study of the mechanical characteristics of medium to high volume ultrafine fly-ash concrete mixture.” International Conference on Climate Resilient Construction and Building Materials organized by the Sustainable Construction and Building Materials Laboratory, March 3-5, 2023. 30. Vora Riddhi, Dave Urmil, Thakkar Sonal, “ A Review paper on self healing concrete”, UKERI concrete Congress, sustainable concrete infrastructure, March 14-17, 2023, NIT, Jalandhar 31. Thakkar Sonal, Rawat Shivanjali, Abhishek Chanda “Early strength development of self- compacting geopolymer mortar using binary and tertiary blends of industrial wastes” UKERI concrete Congress, sustainable concrete infrastructure, March 14-17, 2023, NIT, Jalandhar 32. Devesh Updhyay, Abhishek Chanda, Sonal Thakkar, “ High strength geopolymer concrete for road pavements”, UKERI concrete Congress, sustainable concrete infrastructure, March 14-17, 2023, NIT, Jalandhar 33. Hetavi Patel, Hasmita Mehta, Parthiv Trivedi, Tejas Joshi, Sonal Thakkar, Urmil Dave, “Effect of alkali activated solution on compressive strength of geo-polymer concrete”,UKIERI Concrete Congress on Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure, March 14-17, 2023, NIT, Jalandhar 34. Patel Mitali N, Urmil V Dave, Tejas M Joshi, “Use of ceramic wastes with alkali activated mortar for passive fire protection of concrete”,UKIERI Concrete Congress on Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure, March 14-17, 2023, NIT, Jalandhar 35. Hani B Patel, Tejas M Joshi, Sonal Thakkar, “Influence of ceramic tile waste on concrete properties,”UKIERI Concrete Congress on Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure, March 14-17, 2023, NIT, Jalandhar 36. Keval Jodhani, Dhruvesh Patel, N. Madhvan, “Identification of short term shoreline change analysis over Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat.” at 2nd international conference on Advances in Water Treatment and Management (ICAWTM-23) on March 11-12, 2023, PDEU. 15

37. Paresh V. Patel, Digesh D. Joshi and Rinkesh V. Makawana, “Experimental studies on confined compressive strength of stainless steel wire mesh (SSWM) wrapped concrete columns”, UKIERI Concrete Congress on Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure organized by Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar (Virtual Mode), 14-17 March 2023. 38. Vipul J. Kalyani, Digesh D. Joshi and Paresh V. Patel, “Study of the behaviour of FRP materials and epoxy adhesives under elevated temperature”, 4th International Conference on Materials, Manufacturing and Modelling (ICMMM 2023) jointly organized by held at Vellor Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellor, 24-26 March 2023. 39. Rinali Patel, Daivee Vyas, Nirali Chaudhari, Anant Patel \"Identification of Groundwater Potential Zones using GIS Technology for Sabarmati River Basin\".International Conference on Recent Advances in (Applied) Sciences & Engineering (RAISE 2023) April12 & 13, 2023 at Faculty of Technology & Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda 40. Krisee Patel, Anant Patel \"Development of CN Grid for Hydrological Model Using Different GIS Techniques and Google Earth Engine\" International Conference on Recent Advances in (Applied) Sciences & Engineering (RAISE 2023) April12 & 13, 2023 at Faculty of Technology & Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. 41. Nirali Chaudhari, Rinali Patel, Daivee Vyas, Anant Patel \"A Novel Approach for developing Flood Risk Maps using GIS Technology\" National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal has organized an International conference, “Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Opportunities and Challenges” on 20th & 21st April 2023 (SIIOC-2023), at NITK Surathkal, Mangalore. 42. Krisee Patel & Anant Patel \"Towards a Sustainable Water Management: A Novel Approach of Hydrological Modelling and Flood Frequency Analysis for Upper Sabarmati River Basin\" National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal has organized an International conference, “Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Opportunities and Challenges” on 20th & 21st April 2023 (SIIOC-2023), at NITK Surathkal, Mangalore. National Conferences: 1. Hiren Solanki, Parul Patel & Ravi Jaychandra “Correction Of Tropospheric Delay In Irnss Data” at ISRS-ISG 2022 Symposium Geosmart India during 15-17, November 2022. 2. Jayachandra Ravi, Rahul Nigam, Vinay Hegde, Jagdish Rane, Devansh Desai, Bimal K. Bhattacharya, and Parul R. Patel “Sun Induced Fluorescence (SIF) as stress indicator in Wheat crop and its relation with key photosynthetic parameters” at ISRS-ISG 2022 Symposium Geosmart India during 15-17, November 2022. 16

Book Chapters Sr. Name of Authors Title of Book chapter Title of Book, ISBN and Details of No. Publisher 1 Sonal Thakkar, Parth Effect of Incorporation of Various GRENZE International Journal of Patel, Meet Shah, Chemicals in Self - Healing Engineering & Technology GIJET, ISSN Nishant Lia and Property of Mortar 2395-5295 , page 17-23 GRENZE Scientific Tejas Joshi Society (thegrenze.com), dated July 25,2022 2 Anant Patel, Neha Impact of Lockdown on Air Modeling and Simulation of Environmental Keriwala, Prutha Quality during COVID-19 Systems , CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, 24 Patel, Arohi Singh Outbreak: A Global Scenario August 2022 (ISBN- 9781003203445) https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003203445 3 Nitesh Gupta*, Projecting future maximum River Dynamics and Flood Hazards: Studies Jitendra Patel, temperature changes in River on Risk and Mitigation; Springer (29 Shivani Gond, Ravi Ganges Basin using Observations November 2022.). P Tripathi, Padam and Statistical Downscaling Model https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7100- jee Omar, PKS (SDSM) 6_31 Dikshit 4 Alka Shah, Tejas Modification of Engineering Shah, A., Thaker, T. (2023). Modification of Thaker Properties of Soil Using Waste Engineering Properties of Soil Using Waste Materials: A Review Materials: A Review. In: Agnihotri, A.K., Reddy, K.R., Chore, H.S. (eds) Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Conference (IGGEC) 2021, Vol. 1. IGGEC 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 280. Springer, Singapore. (24 November 2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4739- 1_52 ISBN 978-981-19-4738-4 5 Thakkar Sonal, A Review of Use of Agricultural Recent Trends in Materials, Select Abhishek Chanda and Industrial waste in alkali Proceedings of ICTMIM 2022, Editors : K. and Rawat activated concrete Geetha · Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt · Shivanjali Hui-Ming Wee, ISSN 2662-3161, Springer Proceedings in Materials ISBN 978-981-19- 5394-1 ISBN 978-981-19-5395-8 (eBook)(01 November 2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5395-8, page 85 - 101. 6 Patel, A., Keriwala, Flood Resilient Plan for Urban Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience. Print ISBN-978-3-031-22111-8, Springer, Cham. N., Mehta, D., Area: A Case Study. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22112-5_8 Shaikh, M., Eslamian, S. 17

Research Projects Completed Major Research Projects funded by External Funding Agencies: Sr. Title of the Project Project Funding Grant No. Investigator/s Agency 1 Experimental Investigations on RC Girder Prof. QR Global GBP 2,000/- Model of Bridge with Half-joint and Retrofitting Sharadkumar Challenges (Amount Strategies Purohit, and Research Fund received Rs. Prof. Kunal D. (GCRF) at 1,98,311/-) Kansara, LJMU, Liverpool John UK Moores University (LJMU), UK 2 Development of a low-carbon cementitious Dr. U. V. Dave Innovate UK 55525 £ material by recycling Calcium Carbide Residue and in (53.8 Lacs INR) (CCR) waste from foundation industries to Prof. Monower association decarbonise construction sector Sadiq & with Prof. Kunal D. Liverpool John Kansara, Moores LJMU, UK University (LJMU), UK 3 Use of recycled C&D waste, fly ash, dredged Prof. S. P. DST 9.0 Lacs INR marine waste and gypsum for construction of Thakkar, Nirma sustainable salt pan beds for enhancement of salt University (PI), productivity through prevention of brine Dr. U. V. Dave percolation (Co-PI) and Dr. Bhoomi R. Andharia, CSIR – CSMCRI 18

Ongoing Major Research Projects funded by Nirma University: Sr. Project Title Project Funding Grant No. Investigator Agency (Rs in lacs) 1 Nirma 28.4 Strengthening Precast Beam Column Dr Paresh University Connections using Stainless Steel Wire Mesh Patel, (SSWM) - Experimental and Numerical Study Dr Digesh Joshi Ongoing Major Research Projects funded by External Funding Agencies Sr. Title of the Project Project Investigator/s Funding Grant No. Agency (Rs in lacs) 1 Calibration and Validation of RISAT- Dr. P. R. Patel SAC, ISRO 39.10 1 SAR Sensor 2 Torsional Behaviour of Reinforced Prof. S. D. Raiyani, Dr. Teachers Research Concrete Elements Strengthened with P. V. Patel (Mentor at Associateship Fellowship: Stainless Steel Wire Mesh IT-NU), Dr. S. S. for Research 0.60 per year Prakash (Mentor at IIT Excellence to PI Hyderabad) (TARE) at Research grant Science and to Institutes: Engineering 5.00 Laks for Research Board period of three (SERB) years 3 Use of recycled C&D waste, fly ash, Prof. S. P. Thakkar, DST 9.9 dredged marine waste and gypsum Nirma University (PI), for construction of sustainable salt Dr. U. V. Dave (Co-PI) pan beds for enhancement of salt and Dr. Bhoomi R. productivity through prevention of Andharia, CSIR – brine percolation CSMCRI 19

4 Studies and Prototype Development Dr. Jayesh Ruparelia, GUJCOST 22.33 for Recycle and Reuse of Waste Chemical Engineering Streams from Stainless Steel Dept., IT-NU (PI), Industries Dr.Urmil Dave (Co-PI), Mr. Dipak Bholanda (Co-PI). Sanctioned Major Research Projects funded by External Funding Agencies Sr. Title of the Project Project Funding Agency Grant No. Investigator/s (Rs in lacs) 1 Deployment of Sustainable Concrete Dr. Bhoomi R. GUJCOST 32.51 for Reducing Brine Water Losses in Andharia, CSMCRI Earthen Salt Pans: An Experimental (PI), Dr. Sonal Investigation at CSIR-CSMCRI, Thakkar (PI), Dr. Bhavnagar Urmil Dave, Dr. Arvind Kumar, CSMCRI 2 Feasibility study of use of Polyurethane Dr Tejas Joshi Q-BO Technologies 5 Foam Water in Paver Block (PI)Dr Urmil Dave Pvt. Ltd (Co-PI) 3 Feasibility study of use of Dr Tejas Joshi Q-BO 10 Polyurethane Foam Water in Paver (PI) Technologies Pvt. Block Dr Urmil Dave Ltd (Co-PI) 4 Experimental investigation on the Dr Sonal Thakkar Industry 10 use of Kaolinite Mining waste as a (PI) Sponsored Project replacement for natural fine Dr Urmil Dave by Q-BO aggregate in concrete (Co-PI) Technologies Pvt Ltd. 20

5 Experimental and numerical studies Dr. Digesh D. SERB-SURE 29.72 Grant on Stainless Steel Wire Mesh Joshi (PI) (SSWM) strengthened precast beam Dr. Paresh V. column assemblies under Patel (Co-PI) progressive collapse scenario Completed Minor Research Projects Funded by Nirma University Sr. Title of the Project Project Investigator/s Grant (Rs in lacs) No. 1 1 Reducing riders‟ discomfort due to speed Dr. Manish Dutta (PI) 1 1 breakers without compromising their speed Prof. HemangDalwadi (Co- 1 reduction abilities PI) 0.80 2 Techno-Economic feasibility of a UHPC Prof Vineet Kothari (PI) 1 1 Precast Element Dr.Urmil Dave (Mentor) 3 Development of Pneumatic Base Hysteresis Prof. Utsav Koshti (PI) type cost effective Damper for Seismic Dr.Sharadkumar Purohit Application (Mentor) 4 Study on Self-Healing Capability of Dr.Sonal Thakkar (PI) Calcium Nitrate and Methyl Methacrylate Dr.Urmil Dave (Mentor) based Microcapsule on Concrete Exposed to Saline and Non-saline Exposure. 5 Use of solid waste for subgrade Prof. Alka Shah (PI) improvement Dr. Hasan Rangwala (Co-PI) 6 Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of Dr.Digesh Joshi (PI) GFRP-SSWM hybrid wraps Dr. Paresh V. Patel (Mentor) 7 Study of Self Compacting Metakaolin based Dr.Sonal Thakkar (PI) Alkali-Activated Concrete. Sanctioned Minor Research Projects funded by Nirma University Sr. Title of the Project Project Investigator/s Grant (Rs in lacs) No. 1 1 Sustainable Technique of Desiccation Crack Dr. Naman Kantesaria (PI), 21

Mitigation in Expansive Soil using Natural Dr. Hasan Rangwala (Co-PI) Fibres 2 Estimating risk involved in evasive action of Dr. Manish Dutta (PI), Prof. 1 1 vehicles at unsignalized intersections and Hemang Dalwadi (Co-PI), Dr. B. 1 miniroundabouts S. Munjal (Mentor) 1 1 3 Evaluating the effectiveness of different warm Dr. Prachi Kushwaha (PI), Prof. mix additives on binder properties and studying Hemang Dalwadi (Co-PI), Dr. B. moisture susceptibility of mixes modified with S. Munjal (Mentor) warm mix additives 4 Enhanced Flood Inundation Mapping using Dr. Swati Sirsant (PI), Prof. Near Real-time Satellite Imagery and Real-Time Anant Patel (Co-PI), Dr. V. M. Geo-Tags Rana (Mentor) 5 Experimental Study on Particle Damper for the Prof. Utsav Koshti (PI), Dr. Model Building Sharad Purohit (Mentor) 6 Identification of Flood Prone Areas using Dr. Nitesh Gupta (PI), Prof. HECRAS: A Case Study of Sukal River, Gujarat Anant Patel (Co-PI), Dr. V. M. Rana (Mentor) Consultancy Sr. Principal Details of Status Agency Amount No. Coordinator Consultancy (Rs.) work completed 1 Prof. Anant Patel MAHESHWARI 1000/- Water testing ENGINEERS 2 Prof. Anant Patel Environment Audit completed TORRENT POWER 3,27,660/- 3 Prof. Anant Patel LIMITED 4 Dr. U. V. Dave Environment Audit completed Tata Motors (CETP) 4,13,450/- 5 Dr. U. V. Dave Concrete mix completed LCC PROJECTS 18,000/- 6 Dr. U. V. Dave design PRIVATE Dr Tejas Joshi LIMITED Dr Sonal Thakkar Concrete mix completed ANON INFRA 10,000/- design completed MANAGEMENT LLP Concrete mix design JINDAL SAW 69,000/- LIMITED 22

7 Dr. U. V. Dave Tile adhesive completed CERA 24,000/- evaluation SANITARYWARE 8 Dr. P. V. Patel LIMITED 9 Dr. U. V. Dave Fire resistant completed URBANAAC 15,000/- Dr Tejas Joshi INFRASTRUCTURE Dr Sonal Thakkar PVT. LTD. 10 Dr. Paresh Patel Dr. Sharad Purohit Training completed PIDILITE 1,00,000/- INDUSTRIES 11 Dr. Paresh Patel LIMITED Prof. Sunil Raiyani Dr. Digesh joshi Proof checking of Completed SIJCON 75000 structural design - CONSULTANTS 12 Dr. Paresh Patel jcb india iaypur PVT. LTD. Prof. Sunil Raiyani project Dr. Digesh joshi Completed URBANAAC 12000 13 Dr. Paresh Patel Flexural strength of INFRASTRUCTURE Prof. Sunil Raiyani precast beam PVT. LTD. Dr. Digesh joshi Behaviour of Completed URBANAAC 6000 14 Dr. Paresh Patel precast column INFRASTRUCTURE Prof. Sunil Raiyani under axial PVT. LTD. Dr. Digesh joshi compression load 15 Prof. Anant Patel Water absorption of Completed URBANAAC 1500 pre cast concrete INFRASTRUCTURE 16 Dr. Sonal Thakkar member PVT. LTD. Dr. Tejas Joshi Flexural strength of Completed URBANAAC 27000 17 Prof. Anant Patel fire affected precast INFRASTRUCTURE beam PVT. LTD. 18 Dr. Sharad Purohit Preparation of Ongoing ACULIFE HEALTH 60000 environment CARE PRIVATE management system LIMITED adequecy certificate Evaluation of Completed DESAI 6500 compressive CONSTRUCTION strenght of M30 PVT. LTD. grade HRC Concrete Environmental Ongoing RHYTHM BIOCARE 215770 audit work Proof Checking of Completed AHMEDABAD 500000 23

Dr. Paresh Patel structural details of MUNICIPAL proposed Sports CORPORATION 19 Prof. Anant Patel Complex at Naranpura (West 20 Dr. Paresh Patel Zone) Prof. Sunil Raiyani Dr. Digesh joshi Environment Audit Ongoing THE NAROL 121110 21 Dr. Tejas Joshi DYESTUFF ENVIRO 22 Dr. Digesh Joshi SOCIETY Dr. Tejas Joshi Modulus of repture Completed UMIYA VIJAY 3000 23 Dr. Tejas Joshi and water INFRACON Dr. Digesh Joshi absorption of tiles 24 Prof. Anant Patel Modulus of repture Completed UMIYA VIJAY 13000 25 Prof. Anant Patel and water INFRACON absorption of tiles 26 Prof. Anant Patel 27 Prof. Anant Patel Modulus of repture Completed ANAYA 12000 28 Prof. Anant Patel and water INFFRACON PVT 29 Prof. Anant Patel absorption of tiles LTD. 30 Prof. Anant Patel Completed KARMIK 6000 INFRAVISON C/O Modulus of repture (SOHAM INFRA and water GROUP) absorption of tiles Environmental completed Jay Chemical 588115 Audit work Industries Ltd. Environmental completed Maharaja 299995 Audit work completed International U/O 227645 Pawan Cement Ltd. Environmental Audit work E–Coli Waste Management Pvt Ltd. Environmental completed Rhythm Biocare 215770 Audit work Environmental completed The Narol Dyestuff 121110 Audit work Enviro Society Environmental completed Harsh Organochem 282205* Audit work Pvt. Ltd. Environmental completed Aculife Healthcare 347645* Audit work Pvt. Ltd. 24

Departmental Activities Workshop/ STTP /FDP/ Webinar /Training 1. The Civil Engineering Department organized a 2-week STTP on „Digital Technologies in Construction‟ from July 04, 2022 to July 15, 2022. The training programme is helpful to the faculty members in imbibing new trends in teaching in new initiatives of the department i.e. PG programme in Construction Technology and Management as well as B Tech programme in Construction Technology for L&T Engineers. 25

2. Workshop on Career Opportunities for M. Tech. programme Aspirants in Civil Engineering (CASAD and CTM) was conducted on May 20, 2023. 3. Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Institute of Technology, Nirma University offered a Value-Added course (offline) titled “Improving Safety, Ethics and Professional Practice in Engineering via Youth Training” during August 05, 2022 Friday to August 09, 2022 Tuesday. Total duration of the said course was 30 hours. The course was conducted in offline mode at Nirma University Campus, Ahmedabad. The course was conducted on the auspices of „ACADEMICS WITHOUT BORDERS‟ (https://www.awb-usf.org/). The course instructor/AWB Volunteer was Dr. Rishi Gupta (https://www.uvic.ca/ecs/civil/people/home/guptar.php) Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Expert Lectures / Webinars 1. An Expert Lecture Series in Foundation Engineering for the Civil Engineering Students especially for B.Tech. Semester-V students. The sessions were being delivered by Dr. Sanjay Kumar Shukla, Associate Professor Civil Engineering Department, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia and Adjunct Professor, Civil Engineering Department, SoE, IT-NU. Dr. Shukla is Founding Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, Founding Research Group Leader (Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering), School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. 26

2. The Expert Lecture Series in Surveying was scheduled by the civil engineering department of Nirma University for B Tech 3rd semester students. Dr. Hongbo Su, Dr. Ramesh S. V. Teegavarapu and Dr. Sudhagar Nagarajan, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, USA delivered lectures. 3. Civil Engineering Department, Institute of Technology organized an online lecture of Dr S. Monover of Liverpool John Moores University, UK on Webex platform. The topic of expert talk was “Low carbon Construction materials” for M Tech and B Tech students. Expert talk was organized on February 16, 2023 & March 02, 2023. 4. Civil Engineering Department, Institute of Technology - Nirma University organized an \"Lecture Series in Transportation Engineering\" focusing on 'Traffic Engineering' for the students of the Civil Engineering Department. The sessions were delivered 10 sessions on March 09, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20, 24, 27 & 31, 2023 from 5 pm to 6 pm, by Dr. Khaled Sobhan, Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, USA & Dr. David Kan, Founder, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Lab & Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, USA. 27

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5. Civil Engineering Department, Institute of Technology - Nirma University organized an Expert Lecture on \" Experimental and analytical investigation of shear behaviour of UHPC\" for the MTech CASAD II and IV semester students of the Civil Engineering Department. The lecture was delivered on April 28, 2023 from 9 am to 11 am by Dr. Dimitrios Kalliontzis, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, USA. 29

Faculty development programmes availed by faculty members during 2022-23: Sr. Name of Faculty Member Duration Name and Place of Programme No. 1 Prof. S. P. Purohit, Prof. S. P. July 04-16, ISTE approved Two-week STTP on 2022 “Digital Technologies in Construction” Thakkar, Prof. D. D. Joshi, Prof. T. M. Joshi, Prof. U. K. Koshti, Prof. under the auspices of CQAAD-NU H. M. Rangwala, Prof. H. A. Dalwadi, Prof. A. M. Shah, Prof. September International Conference on Climate and A. J. Patel, Prof. A. D. Patel, Prof. 19-20, 2022 Weather-Related Extremes (ICCWE- Keval Jodhani, Prof. Swati Sirsant, 2022) organized by Department of Water Prof. K. K. Tripathi, Prof. Nitesh October 20, Resources Development and Gupta, Prof. Prachi Kushwaha, 2022 Management, IIT-Roorkee Prof. V. G. Kothari, Prof. Manish Seminar was on “Draft Standards for Dutta, Prof. Naman Kantesaria, Drone Survey” at Defexpo22, mahatma Prof. Prachi Ingle. mandir, Gandhinagar 2 Prof. A. D. Patel November 14 17th Symposium on Earthquake 3 Prof. P. R. Patel, Prof. H. A. - 17, 2022 Engineering (17SEE) held at the Dalwadi, Prof. A. M. Shah, Department of Earthquake Engineering, Prof. Keval Jodhani, December 14 Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee Prof. Swati Srisant, - 17, 2022 Indian Geotechnical Conference 2022, Dr. N. Gupta December Kochi 19-22, 2022 12th Structural Engineering Convention, 4 Dr. S.P. Purohit, Dr. D.D. Joshi, (SEC 2022), MNIT, Jaipur Prof. Utsav Kosti and Dr. Hasan Rangwala December International Workshop on Construction 13-17, 2022 Materials held Online at Department of 5 Prof. A. M. Shah Civil Engineering, NIT Calicut June 19-23 6. Dr. P.V. Patel, Dr. D.D. Joshi, “Effective Teaching” ITNU Prof. Utsav Koshti, Prof. Sunil Raiyani 1 Month Faculty Induction Training Programme, IMNU 7 Dr Tejas Joshi Dr Sonal Thakkar 8 Dr. Nitesh Gupta, Dr. Prachi Kushwaha, Dr. Naman Kantesaria 9 Dr. Nitesh Gupta , Dr. Prachi Kushwaha, Dr. Naman Kantesaria 30

Glimpses of Site Visits S. Name of Site/Industry Visited Date Name of Faculty For Whom No. member(s) accompanied 1 Science City & Metro August 10, Prof. Hemang Dalwadi and M Tech CASAD Construction of Gandhinagar 2022 Prof. Vineet & CTM Sem 1 Ahmedabad Kothari. Route 2 AMTS Electric Vehicle charging October 15, Prof. Utsav Koshti and Prof. M Tech CASAD Station, Jamalpur, Ahmedabad 2022 Tejas Joshi & CTM Sem 1 3 Kotarpur Water Treatment Plant November Prof. A. D. Patel, Prof. B Tech Sem V Keval Jodhani, Prof. Prachi B Tech Sem III and Pirana Sewage Treatment 05, 2022 Ingle, Prof. Prachi Kushwala B Tech Sem VII Plant Prof. Sunil Raiyani, Prof. Tejas 4 HI Bond Cement Rajkot November Joshi, Prof. Swati Srisant, 05 & 19, Prof. V. G. Kothari, Prof. 2022 Keval Jodhani, Prof. A. M. Shah 5 Dharoi Dam on Sabarmati River, December Prof. A. D. Patel, Prof. Manish Dutta, Prof. A. M. Y Junction on Narmada Canal 03, 2022 Shah, Prof. Swati Srisant near Kadi, Canal Syphon near Sabarmati River 6 Water retaining Structures at December Prof. P. V. Patel, Prof. S. D. M Tech CASAD Vastral TP105 water distribution 03, 2022 Raiyani Sem I station site, Ahmedabad 7 Indian Seismological Research December Prof. Utsav Koshti, Prof. B Tech Sem VII Sharad Purohit Institute (ISR), Gandhinagar 07, 2022 8 Construction of Multi-Storey January 20, Prof. P. V. Patel M. Tech. (CASAD) Sem. II Reinforced Concrete Building 2023 Prof. S. P. Purohit M. Tech. (Skywalk Arena) located beside Prof. D. D. Joshi (CASAD) Sem. II Nirma University M. Tech. (CASAD & 9 1) Precast manufacturing plant of February 03, Prof. S. P. Purohit CTM) Sem. II M. Tech. (CTM) PSP Projects Ltd. located near 2023 Prof. D. D. Joshi Sem. II village Mankol, Sanand- Nalsarovar Road, Ahmedabad 2) Construction of G+33 storey high-rise building located near Shela, Ahmedabad 10 1. NUVOCO RMC Plant, Sanatal February 04, Prof. Vineet Kothari 2. J K Lakshmi Cement Grinding 2023 Dr. Lukman Mansuri Unit, Moti Bhoyan 11 Gift City February 24, Prof. P. R. Patel 2023 Prof. K. K. Tripathi 31

12 L&T CSTI, Charodi Village, February 27, Prof. Vineet Kothari B Tech Sem IV &VI Ahmedabad 28, 2023 Prof. Prachi Kushwaha M.Tech CTM March 01 & Prof. A. D. Patel Sem. II M.Tech CTM 03, 2023 Prof. A. M. Shah Sem. II B Tech semester 13 Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed March 04, Prof. P. R. Patel VI Rail Corridor 2023 Prof. Hemang Dalwadi 14 BN Precast Pvt. Ltd. near April 12, Dr. Vishal Lad Dehgam,Gandhinagar 382305 2023 Prof. Purvesh Raval 15 Dharoi dam, canal cross drainage April 29, Prof. Anant Patel Dr. Nitesh Gupta work on Sabarmati river 2023 Prof. Somil Thakur Prof. Swati Srisant  A site visit to National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) was organised by Civil Engineering Department, Nirma University for M.Tech CTM students on 4th March, 2023.  A site visit to Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Construction Skill Training Institute (CSTI), Ahmedabad was organised by Civil Engineering Department, Nirma University for more than 280 B.Tech students of 4th and 6th Semester between 27th February to 03rd March, 2023. 32

 A site visit to GIFT City, Gandhinagar was organised by Civil Engineering Department, Nirma University for M.Tech CTM students on 24th February, 2023.  A site visit of J K Lakshmi Cement Grinding Unit, Moti Bhoyan was organised by Civil Engineering Department, Nirma University for M.Tech CTM and CASAD students on 04th February, 2023. 33

 A Site visit of Nuvoco Vistas corp. Ltd. RMC plant, sanatal was organised by civil engineering department, Nirma university for M Tech. CTM and CASAD students on 4th Feb, 2023. 34

 A site visit of Construction of G+33 storey high-rise building located near Shela, Ahmedabad was organised by Civil Engineering Department, Nirma University for M. Tech. (CASAD) Sem. II students on 03rd Feb, 2023.  A site visit of Precast manufacturing plant of PSP Projects Limited located near village Mankol, Sanand-Nalsarovar Road, Ahmedabad was organised by Civil Engineering Department, Nirma University for M. Tech. (CASAD) Sem. II students on 03rd Feb, 2023. 35

 A site \"construction of the Raft foundation for the one of its kind skyscraper - REVA - residential building\" in the GIFT City, Gandhinagar is visited by the faculty of Civil Engineering Department, Nirma University on the last day of the Year 2022. 36

 A site visit to Dharoi dam was organized with the aim of providing the students of 6th semester of B.Tech Civil Engineering with an opportunity to understand the practical aspects of dam construction, operation, management and maintenance. 37

 Technical Site Visit at Kotarpur Water Treatment Plant (WTP) and Pirana Sewage Treatment Plant (STP).  On 5th November, 2022 the undergraduate students of Civil Engineering Department, Nirma University visited the Kotarpur Water Treatment Plant and Pirana Sewage Treatment Plant as a part of their course work of Environmental Engineering. 38

New Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs)  Civil Engineering Department, Nirma University extended its successful collaboration with Dr. Fixit Institute Of Structural Protection & Rehabilitation (DFI-SPR) for more than one decade through renewal of the MoU on 17/02/2023. The said MoU is executed for undertaking knowledge and skill upgradation as well as information dissemination programmes in the field of Waterproofing, Maintenance and Repair of Concrete Structures, for the benefit of construction professionals, consultants, architects, academicians and students. 39

Extra-Curricular Events / Celebrations 1. The orientation Programme for newly admitted students of M. Tech programs was organized between August 01, 2022, to August 12, 2022. During the orientation programme, various lectures on Construction Technology, Introduction to Latex, Human Resource Management, Personality Development etc. have been planned. Laboratory hands-on sessions on various software in Project Management, GIS, Revit, and Construction workshop have been organized. During the orientation programme, a technical site visit to Science City & Metro Construction of Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Route has been planned for the students on August 10, 2022. 2. B. Tech. First Year Orientation Programme, Know Your Department/HOD/Student Association Session was organized on September 19, 2022. The Head of Department welcomed and addressed the students and introduced the scope of Civil Engineering. Senior faculty members of the department also addressed the students. Activity of introduction of faculty members was also carried out and information of various student associations/chapters was given to the students. 3. The Civil Engineering Department organized a farewell function for the graduating students of B.Tech (Civil Engineering) 2019-2023 batch on May 24, 2023 at A-101 from 04 PM onwards. The Organization of Civil Engineering Students (OrCES) club has organized a farewell function for student club members of OrCES graduating in May 2023. The farewell function was organized on May 24, 2023 at Maruti Nandan Garden Restaurant from 7:00 pm onwards. The faculty members have motivated students for their future endeavors. The students have also shared their experiences. 4. Seminar and visit to the civil engineering department along with other departments was 40

organized for B Tech aspirants and their parents on May 14,2023. 5. The OrCES club, Civil Engineering Department had organized a celebration for Teachers Day on September 05, 2022. All the students and faculty from the civil department enthusiastically participated in different activities such as dance, drama, singing etc. Students showcase their talent with dedicated performances for their teachers. The event ended with a beautiful garba performance by board members of the OrCES club. 6. On account of 28th Foundation Day Celebration on October 03, 2022 of the Institute of Technology, Organization of Civil Engineering Students (OrCES), Civil Engineering Department and NSS Unit SOE in association with Blind People‟s Association, Vastrapur had organized Diyang Talent Performance and Tribute. Shri Bhupendra Tripathi (Manager, Reserve Bank of India, Ahmedabad) was invited as chief guest. Also invited children from Miroli village to be a part of the celebration. A series of performances of dancing, singing, etc. were organized. After all performances and speech, all students were taken to K Canteen for Lunch. Then small gifts were provided to them and then they were sent back through bus service. 41

Student Club Activities 1. Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Technology, Nirma University under the Indian Concrete Institute Student Chapter organized an event on August 10, 2022 on “Emerging Trends 3D Printing Technology”, by Mr. Yogi Gandhi, CEO, US Institute of 3D Printing Technology. 2. IEI Students‟ Chapter, Civil Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University had organized a knowledge sharing session on “Basics of AUTOCAD” on September, 02 2022 at 04:15 p.m. through OFFLINE mode. The session was conducted by Mr. Shivam Akbari (21mclc01), a student of M. Tech. (CASAD) final year, Civil Engineering Department, IT-NU. A total of 36 participants including UG and PG students of the department attended the knowledge-sharing session. 3. IEI Students‟ Chapter, Civil Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University had organized a technical lecture on “Entrepreneurship in Civil Engineering &Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) Technology”. The lecture was conducted by Ms. Silky Agrawal, Founder, Geocarte Radar Technology Pvt. Ltd., Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) on September 06, 2022, Institute of Technology, Nirma University. A total of 168 participants including UG students and faculty members of the department attended the lecture. 4. “OrCES Sports Fest”– the event which provided the stage for all the students of civil engineering to showcase their talent in physical activities. A cricket match between faculty and students was also organized on September 09, 2022. There was a good number of participants and all the players played with great sportsmanship and showed absolute Energy and spirit throughout the event. 5. IEI Students‟ Chapter, Civil Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University has organized a knowledge sharing session on “Analysis & Design of Steel Structures using STAAD Pro” on 09th September, 2022 at 04:15 p.m. through OFFLINE mode. 6. National Concrete Quizathon was organised by the Indian Concrete Institute, Students Chapter, Civil Engineering Department. It was a three round competition, whose first and second round was held on September 15, 2022 and the final round on September 16, 2022. The first round was the eliminator, the second round was the qualifier and the final round was the rapid fire round. The competition witnessed participants from various colleges across the 42

country. 7. IGBC student chapter organized an expert lecture under the umbrella of world green building week on Engineers Day, on “Building and Sustainability” was organized on September 15, 2022. Mr. Varun Yadav, Proprietor, Integrated Consulting Engineering Services, Ahmedabad delivered the lecture. 8. Students Research Cell, Civil Engineering Department organized a lecture on Standard: Making and Utilization under the “Education Utilization Programme”, on 08 September, 2022. Mr. Sai Kaushik Kalle, Scientist -'C'/Deputy Director, Bureau of Indian, Standards, Ahmedabad Branch Office-I, delivered the session. 9. Organization of Civil Engineering Students (OrCES), Civil Engineering Department, IT-NU had organized its annual tech-fest “NIRMAN’22” on November 11 & 12, 2022 under the theme “Innovation and Engineering”. NIRMAN‟22 was consisting of various technical and non- technical events, workshops, talk shows and Fire Safety Mock Drill. The event was inaugurated by our chief guest Mr S. Mohan Babu. He is Digital head, Mumbai Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail project at L&T Ltd.More than 700 students from various colleges and from the institute participated in the Nirman 2022. A fire safety Mock Drill was also conducted with the support of Officers of Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services and Fire and Security Association of India (FSAI), student chapter. Participants were encouraged with certificates and exciting prizes. 10. IGBC student chapter organized an expert lecture on “Case study on Effective Plumbing System” on February 13, 2023. Ms. Megha Bhatt, Principal Associates –Electra Techno Consultant, & Associates – MEPF, Consultant, Ahmedabad (Alumni Member) delivered the lecture. 11. IEI Students‟ Chapter, Civil Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University has organized a half-day workshop on \"Pre-construction Planning of Real Estate Project\" on 04th March 2023. The sessions during workshop was conducted by three expert speakers (i) Mr. Dharan Patel, Director, Ozone India Ltd., Ahmedabad (ii) Ms. Maitree Patel, Director, Ozone India Ltd., Ahmedabad and (iii) Mr. Nihar Desai, Engineer, Hi-Tech Projects Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad. A total of 19 UG students have participated in the workshop. 12. Indian ConcreteInstituteStudents Chapter, Civil Engineering Department has organized ICI Concrete Masters 2023, a state level competition on Concrete technology on March 15 & 16, 2023.The event revolves around technical knowledge, the questions posed demand an insight on 43

the core subjects of Civil Engineering. The event was held in three rounds. The event was open for all civil engineering students across gujarat. More than 200 students were registered for the said event. Community Outreach Activities 1. OrCES, in association with NSS Unit, organized Road Safety Awareness Programme on April 13, 2023. During the event, a session on Road Safety Awareness by Mr Amit Khatri, a member of the executive committee at Gujarat Road Safety Authority and winner of the National Award on 'Indian Road Safety Mission 2015'. After the session, an online quiz on the Road Safety aspect has been arranged. Various events to check the traffic sense of drivers had been organized on the Dome Ground. 44

2. To raise awareness about the significance of water quality, Civil Engineering Department along with OrCES&NSS organized a Water Quality Awareness Drive on April 13, 2023. The event was aimed at educating college students about the importance of water quality and its impact on human health. The Water Quality Awareness Drive was a significant step towards creating awareness about water quality and its importance. The event created an opportunity for students to learn about the various factors that affect water quality and how it impacts human health. 45

Group Photo of Civil Engineering Department UG Batch of 2018-2022 on the day of 31st Convocation Ceremony of Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 46