Sustainable Lean Construction / Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Bd.383 (PDF)

International Steering Committee for Lean Construction in Public Sector (LIPS). As Member of the Top Management of L&T ECC Construction Division at retirement, Prof. Raghavan set up and managed as its Chief Executive L&T-Ramboll Consulting Engrs Ltd.; Engagement with different facets of the profession with passion (Engineering, Consultancy, Construction, Project Management, Academic). He has a patent for a new method of excavation, the patent for precast segmental foundations (being applied). Prof. Raghavan published more than 200 international journals and conference papers and 6 technical books and book chapters and guided 18 M.Tech. project students of IIT Madras.

Dr. Indrasen Singh has over 35 years of experience in teaching, research, administration, strategic planning, institutional reforms, accreditation, and consultancy work. He has been responsible for traffic and transportation departments at ICT (P) Limited, Green Park New Delhi, NICMAR Delhi, and NICMAR Goa Campus. He was the founder Professor and Dean of NICMAR Goa Campus and developed the M. Tech Programme in structural engineering, transportation engineering, and environmental engineering in civil engineering at Lovely Professional University, Punjab. Dr. Singh has received 41 awards and has published 173 scientific technical papers in various national, international journals and conferences, and has worked on 45 major highway and transportation projects. He has guided one Ph.D. thesis, two M.S. theses, nine M Tech theses, and 187 PG theses.



Dr. Singh has taught 18 subjects and developed 13 at the PG level. He has experience in academics and industry, as well as expertise in World Bank/ADB-funded projects. His many research papers are listed on the Transportation Research Board, USA for reference. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) and a life member of the Indian Roads Congress, Indian Buildings Congress, and Institute of Urban Transport. Dr. Singh has leadership qualities and has led the overall management and administration of NICMAR University, Hyderabad, with a vision to develop the university into a Centre of Excellence.

Dr. Venkatesan Renganaidu is currently Professor and Director of IQAC at the National Institute of Construction Management and Research, Hyderabad. He has been awarded a Ph.D. from the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, in the area of Construction Management, then pursued his master's in Business Administration with a specialization in Human Resources & System Management from Madurai Kamarajar University, Madurai, and B.E (Civil) from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara. Dr. Venkatesan has been associated with the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) in numerous capacities for two decades and took a Voluntary Retirement (VRS), while he was serving as Executive Engineer, later he headed the Management Development Center (MDC) of Consolidated Construction Consortium Ltd (CCCL), Chennai, and also served as Director in Engineering Project Management Consultancy and Research (EPMCR), an incubated company of IIT Madras. Dr. Venkatesan Renganaidu obtained the "Research Excellence Award" from the National Institute of Construction Management and Research, Pune, Maharashtra, India. He had published 10 international peer-reviewed journal papers and 2 national journal papers and also presented 9 international conference papers and 3 national conference papers. He is also Member board of studies at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Vellore and Chennai.

Dr. Arun Chandramohan, Professor and Dean (Research) and the School of Business Management at NICMAR Hyderabad, is one of the experts in Construction Materials, Construction Scheduling and Risk Assessment, Sustainable construction techniques, and Lean Construction.



Dr. Arun graduated in Civil Engineering from Calicut Regional Engineering College, Kerala (Presently NIT Calicut) in the year 1999. He did his master's in Construction Engineering and Management in 2001 and Ph.D. in the area of Construction Management in the year 2004 from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai.