TLC2 week 2025 speakers with TLC2 Team
The TLC2 Week is an annual event aimed at disseminating recent findings and identifying new challenges in the areas of TLC2 through collaborations with relevant national and international stakeholders working on TLC2 areas.
Registrations will open soon
Tentative Programme Schedule
Day 2 (January 28) – One day workshop on TLC2
| 08:00 – 09:00 AM | Registration | |
| 09:00 – 09:20 AM | Inaugural session: Welcome address by Prof. Manu Santhanam. | Chief Guest: Prof. Benny Raphael, IIT Madras |
| 09:20 – 09:30 AM | Discussion Leader: Prof. Ravindra Gettu | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 AM | Challenges related to reinforcement corrosion in low-clinker systems | Dr. O. Burkan Isgor |
| 10:00 – 10:30 AM | Transforming Waste into Wealth: CO2 Sequestration through Mineralization of Slag and Other Byproducts | Dr. Antonia Pacios |
| 10:30 – 11:00 AM | Tea/coffee Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 AM | FRC & 3D Printed Concrete | Dr. Adewumi John Babafemi |
| 11:30 – 12:00 PM |
Assessing Alternative SCMs for Use in Concrete | Dr. K Siva Teja Chopperla |
| 12:00 – 01:00 PM | Lunch Break | |
| 01:00 – 01:10 PM | Discussion Leader (Prof. Koshy Varghese) | |
| 01:10 – 02:40 PM | Making Affordable Housing Sustainable: The Importance of Blending with Local Cultures and Practices | Dr. Hemanta Doloi |
| 01:40 – 02:10 PM | Impact of Automation and Information Technology on Sustainability | Dr. R. K. Mantha Bharadwaj |
| 02:10 – 02:40 PM | Topic of Presentation: TBD | Dr. Makarand Hastak |
| 02:10 – 02:40 PM | Implementing Sustainability through Contract Specifications | Mr. Srinivasan T |
| 02:40 – 03:10 PM | Tea/coffee Break | |
| 03:10 – 03:40 PM | Talk by YRS Winner | |
| 04:00 – 04:30 PM | Time Overruns and Unsustainable Projects: The Importance of Quick and Reliable Project Progress Monitoring | Dr. Aritra Pal |
| 04:30 – 05:00 PM | Whole life carbon assessment standard: decarbonizing the built environment | Dr. Anil Sawhney |
| Closure | ||
Day 1 (January 27)3rd Young Researcher's Symposium & Award 2025
| 09:00 – 09:10AM | Welcome Address by Prof. Ravindra Gettu |
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| 09:10 – 09:30 PM | Development of cementitious materials with improved sustainability and high temperature performance | Vikash Kumar Singh, IIT Gandhinagar, India |
| 09:30 – 09:50 PM | Utilization of Demolished Concrete Waste For Roller Compacted Concrete Pavement(RCCP) Applications | W. R. A. Nalaka Jayantha, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka |
| 09:50 – 10:10 PM | The Influence of Safety Leadership on Safety Performance through Safety Climate in the Construction Industry | S. Senthamizh Sankar, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India |
| 10:10 – 10:30 PM | Development of carbon sequestering earth-based 3D printable “cementless” material for construction under different environmental exposures | Pitabash Sahoo, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, India |
| 10:30 – 10:50 PM | Investigation on the Behavior of Rubberized Mortar and Concrete under Cyclic Loading | Ma Cho Zin Win, Yangon Technological University, Myanmar |
| 11:00 – 11:30AM | Tea/coffee Break | |
| 09:45 -10:10AM | Guoqing Geng (NUS, Singapore) | The Nano-scale Mechanical interaction between C-S-H Particles |
| 10:10 - 10:35AM | N. M. Anoop Krishnan (IIT Delhi, India) | Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cement Production |
| 10:35 - 11:00AM | Saptarshi Sasmal (CSIR-SERC, India) | Nano-scale modelling, investigations and engineering to develop multi-functional cementitious composite |
| 11:00 – 11:30AM | Tea/coffee Break | |
| 11:30 – 01:25PM | Session 2 – Rheology and 3D Printing of Concrete | |
| 11:30 – 11:45AM | Discussion Leader: Manu Santhanam (IIT Madras) | |
| 11:45 - 12:10PM | Nicolas Roussel (Gustave Eiffel University, France) | Life Cycle assessment of extrusion-based 3D printing technologies |
| 12:10 - 12:35PM | Richard Buswell (Loughborough University, UK) | Hybrid manufacturing: Going beyond 3D Concrete Printing |
| 12:35 - 01:00PM | Kolluru V.L. Subramaniam (IIT Hyderabad, India) | Challenges in Rheological Measurement and Printing with Alkali Activated Binders |
| 01:00 - 01:25PM | Benny raphael | Monitoring the quality of 3D printing |
| 01:30 – 02:30PM | Photo Session and Lunch break | |
| 02:30 –04:00PM | Session 3 – Technologies for Built Environment Sustainability | |
| 02:30 –02:45PM | Discussion Leader: Ashwin Mahalingam (IIT Madras) | |
| 02:45 - 03:10PM | Albert Thomas (IIT Bombay, India) | Sustainability in Numbers: Importance and Challenges of Quantification |
| 03:10 - 03:35PM | Monto Mani (IISC Bangalore, India) | Sustainability in the built environment: emerging concerns |
| 03:35 - 04:00PM | Mili Majumder (Managing Director, Green Business Certification Institute, India, Senior Vice President, Innovation and Research, U.S Green Building Council, USA) | Linkages between design and performance monitoring of Indoor environmental quality in green buildings |
| 04:00 – 04:30PM | Talk by the Surendra P Shah Awardee 2024 | |
| 04:30 – 04:45PM | Refreshments | |
| 04:45 – 05:30PM | Lab Visit (Piyush Chaunsali) | |
| 06:00 – 09:00PM | TLC2 Workshop Banquet | |
Day 3 (January 30) – TLC2 Workshop
| 09:00 – 10:55AM | Session 4 – Low Carbon Construction Materials | |
| 09:00 – 09:15AM | Discussion Leader: Karen Scrivener (EPFL, Switzerland) | |
| 09:15-09:40AM | Thomas Matschei (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) | Thermodynamic modeling - key for sustainable cement design? |
| 09:40 - 10:05AM | Emmanuel Gallucci (Sika Technology AG, Switzerland) | Tailored cement activation based on advanced understanding of basic mechanism/chemical interactions |
| 10:05 - 10:30AM | Taehwan Kim (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) | Effect of MgO on the reactivity of GBFS in sodium silicate activated systems |
| 10:30 - 10:55AM | Luis Edgar Menchaca Ballinas (IIT Madras) | In situ caustification activation of SiO2-rich precursors |
| 11:00 - 11:30AM | High Tea/coffee Break and Posters | |
| 11:30 - 01:25PM | Session 5 – Durability and Sustainability |
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| 11:30 - 11:45AM | Discussion Leader: Mark Alexander (University of Cape Town, South Africa) / Radhakrishna G. Pillai (IIT Madras) | |
| 11:45 - 12:10PM | Kei-ichi Imamoto (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) | Field survey on durability of reinforced concrete building using concrete with ground granulated blast furnace slag over 60% under real condition for about 60 years |
| 12:10 - 12:35PM | Elena Redaelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) | Electrochemical methods for the protection and repair of reinforced concrete suffering corrosion |
| 12:35 - 01:00PM | Yuvaraj Dhandapani (University of Leeds, UK) | Advances in characterising carbonation in low clinker and alternative cements |
| 01:00 - 01:25PM | Sudharshan N. Raman (Monash University Malaysia) | Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC): Transitioning Towards Sustainability and Lean Construction |
| 01:00 – 02:30 PM | Lunch break | |
| 02:30 – 02:45PM | Mr. Ivo Erglis – Kupins (Primekss Group) | GHG emission reduction in construction by utilising self-stressing steel-fibre reinforced concrete (SSSFRC) technology |
| 02:45 – 04:15PM | Session 6 – Life Cycle Analysis / Industrial Ecology
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| 02:45 – 03:00PM | Discussion Leader: Ravindra Gettu / Nikhil Bugalia | |
| 03:00 - 03:25PM | Liberato Ferrara (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) | Advanced construction processes implementing advanced materials to enhance the sustainability signature of the built environment |
| 03:25 - 03:50PM | Anusha S. Basavaraj (Imperial College London, UK) | Transition Towards Low Carbon Concrete - Persuading Parameters |
| 03:50 - 04:15PM | Michał P. Drewniok (University of Leeds, UK) | The necessary embodied carbon cost to deliver future needs. |
| 04:15 - 05:00PM | Tea/coffee Break and Poster Session | |
Day 4 (January 31) – Workshop on Realizing Sustainability – Role of Contract and Law in Indian Construction
| 09:00 – 9:15AM | Welcome address | |
| 09:15 – 10:15AM | Implementing sustainable construction - experience sharing Dr. K N Satyanarayana – Director, IIT TirupatiDiscussion from technology implementation perspective SenthilKumar V., IIT Palakkad |
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| 10:15 – 10:45AM | Are existing procurement practices supporting sustainable and lean construction practices? Is there anything more to be done? - A Public Sector Perspective Nirmal Goel, CPWD |
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| 10:45 – 11:15AM | Are existing procurement practices supporting sustainable and lean construction practices? Is there anything more to be done? – A Private Sector Perspective R Shankar Narayanan, L&T Construction |
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| 11:15 – 11:45AM | Tea/coffee Break | |
| 11:45 – 12:15PM | Facilitating sustainable and lean construction practices through public procurement- A Researcher’s Perspective Ashish Goel – IIM Sirmaur |
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| 12:15– 12:45PM | Sustainable cities and built environment - A Legal Perspective Ms. Nidhi Batra – Founder, Sehreeti Developmental Practices |
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| 12:45 - 01:15PM | Beyond Sustainability - Can lean construction practices help minimize construction disputes? Venkata Santhosh Kumar Delhi, IIT Bombay |
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| 01:15 – 02:00PM | Lunch | |
| 02:00 – 02:30PM | AI and Sustainability – Where are we and what is needed? Murali Jagannathan – IIT Madras |
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| 02:30 – 03:30PM | International perspective on implementing sustainable practices in construction projects Panel Discussion (all above speakers along with Dr. Johan Ninan, TU Delft) |
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| 03:30 – 04:00PM | Closure | |