Sustainability Issues in Civil Engineering

Part 1: Sustainable Transportation Systems.- Sustainable Usage of Construction and Demolition Materials in Roads and Footpaths.- A Few Dilemmas Pertaining Transportation Infrastructures and their Sustainability.- Bitumen Stabilized Materials for Sustainable Road Infrastructures.- Sustainable Transportation for Indian Cities: Role of Intelligent Transportation Systems.- Economic Sustainability Considerations in Asphalt Pavement Design.- Sustainable Design of Indian Rural Roads with Reclaimed Asphalt Materials.- Sustainability of Railway Tracks.- Use of System Approach To Identify, Evaluate and Implement Sustainable Policies and Practices in the Road Construction Industry.- Part 2: Sustainable Geosystems .- Resilient and Sustainable Geotechnical Solution: Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Disaster.- Reinforced Piled Embankments for Sustainable Infrastructure Development.- Experimental Modeling of Unsaturated Intermediate Geomaterials for Sustainable Design of Geotechnical Infrastructure.- Underground Space for Sustainable Urban Development: Experiences from Urban Underground Metro Constructions in India.- Sand - Tire Chips Mixtures for Sustainable Geo-Engineering Applications.- Evaluation of Bioreactor Landfill As Sustainable Land Disposal Method.- Part 4: Sustainable Structural Systems .- Pre-Engineered Bamboo Structures: A Step Towards Sustainable Construction.- Sustainability- way forward in Architectural Engineering.- Harnessing Sustainable Solutions through Challenges - A Case Study of World Record Long-Distance Pumping of Concrete

G L Sivakumar Babu completed his Ph.D.(Geotechnical Engineering) in 1991 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, after earning his Masters Degree (Soil Mechanics Foundation Engg.) in 1987 from Anna University, Madras and B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) in 1983 from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He worked in Central Road Research Institute and International Airports Authority of India New Delhi. He joined Indian Institute of Science in 1997, where his teaching and research activities include courses on Geomechanics, Soil investigations, risk and reliability applications in Civil Engineering, Pavement Engineering, Geosynthetics, and Ground Improvement.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Geotechnical Journal and is Editorial Board Member of 1) Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, ASCE, 2) International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE 3) International Journal of Georisk -Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, Taylor & Francis Group, and 4) International journal of systems assurance engineering and management, Springer Publications, 5) International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering and Ground Improvement, Journal of Institution of Civil Engineers, UK (during 2006 to 2013).