SPICE 2025
6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES AND INNOVATIONS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
February 13 - 14, 2025 | Venue: SSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY

About the Conference


Civil Engineers innovate, create and renovate, keeping the constructed infrastructure facilities up and functioning at all times, responsible for flourishing civilizations throughout history. The situation is no different in modern times with them responsible for the efficient upkeep of the society. However, the mounting concerns towards environmental degradation due to develop- mental activities have led to the limelight falling on Sustainable Practices. Sustainability by definition is the method of using resource in a way that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged. Despite the concept being as old as history, it has gained prominence in recent times. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) defines sustainability as a set of economic, environmental and social conditions in which all of society has the capacity and opportunity to maintain and improve its quality of life without degrading the quantity, quality or the availability of economic, environmental and social resources. Sustainable development is the application of these resources to enhance the safety, welfare, and quality of life for all of society. Practicing Civil Engineers, who are in control of all things from A to Z for a thriving human civilization, need to be responsible towards the economy, environment and society. This conference, SPICE 2025, thus, aims to be a platform for all stakeholders concerned to present, discuss, cooperate, redefine and innovate sustainable solutions for the continuance of the human civilization to higher levels of sophistication and technological advancement while still being nurtured in the cradle of nature and to address all the possible sustainable development goals.

About the Institution

Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering (SSNCE), founded by Padma Bhushan Dr. Shiv Nadar, Chairman, HCL Technologies, stands out as a premier center of higher learning with a mission of pursuing excellence in education and research. The institution, with its diverse and dynamic community of students offers a distinctive combination of some of the finest undergraduate and research programs, accomplished faculty, world class facilities and a residential campus set on a sprawling 230 acres of sylvan surroundings. SSNCE is home to aesthetically designed buildings with state of the art computer and internet facilities, modern workshops, seminar halls, auditoriums and well stocked libraries, sports and games fields in addition to an indoor stadium with gym. SSNCE has over 300 well qualified and committed faculty. Ranked 45th in Engineering Category in NIRF 2023, and 80th among all educational Institutions. SSNCE has been accredited by NAAC with A++ grade. SSN faculties are ranked among top 2 % scientist in the world.

About the Department


The Department of Civil Engineering was started in the academic year 2011-12 with an aim of promoting high quality education in the field of Civil Engineering. The department has well equipped laboratory facilities and highly qualified faculty members having rich experience in teaching and industrial background. The department is aiming to transform itself into a centre of excellence both in academics and research. The department provides the right kind of environment for the students to groom themselves for an innovative and challenging future. The department regularly organizes seminar. guest-lectures, workshops, faculty development programs and conferences for the benefit of students and scholars. At the outset, the department is active in industrial collaboration and with sustainable & societal research.

Important Dates To Remember

Call for Abstract

21 October 2024

Abstract submission
deadline

15 November 2024

Acceptance Notification

30 November 2024 

Call for Full Papers

1 December 2024 

Full Paper Submission

17 January 2025

Acceptance Notification

1 February 2025

Registration Opens

1 February 2025

Camera Ready Paper

10 February 2025

Registration Closes

13 February 2025

Keynote Speakers

Dr.Thanongsak Imjai

Associate Professor, Department of Civil
Engineering, School Of Engineering and
Technology Walailak University, Thailand

Dr.Djwantoro Hardjito

Professor and Rector of Petra Christian
University, Surabaya, Indonesia

Dr.R.Sivacoumar

Chief scientist, CSIR – National Environmental
Engineering Research Institute(NEERI)
CSIR Madrs Comples(CMC)
Taranani,Chennai

Dr.Gowri Asaithambi

Associate Professor, Department of Civil
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Tirupati,Andhra Pradesh

Organising Committee

Chief Patron

Padma Bhushan Dr. Shiv Nadar,
Founder, SSN Institutions

Patron

Dr.Kala Vijayakumar,
President, SSN Institutions

General Co-Chair


Dr.Ve.Annamalai, Principal, SSN CE

Dr. S. Radha, Vice Principal, SSN CE

Dr.P.Ramasamy, Dean of Research, SSN CE

Conference Chair

Dr.N.Sivakumar

Organising Chairs

Dr.P.Sangeetha

Dr.R.Vijayalakshmi

Dr.Sivapriya S.V

Co-organizers

Larsen & Toubro Ltd, Chennai Builders Association of India

CREDAI, Chennai

CMTI, Bengaluru

Artelia Consulting Engineers Ltd, Chennai

Consolidated Construction Consortium Ltd, Chennai

Indian Concrete Institute (ICI)

The Institution of Engineers (IEI), India

Institute of Civil Engineers (UK)

Indian Green Building Council (IGBC)

Programme Committee

Dr.K.Ramanjaneyulu

Dr.R.Rajkumar

Dr.R.Srinath Rajagopalan

Dr.V.Preethi

Dr.G.Ashwin Sriram

Dr.N.Sivakumar

Dr.N.Surendar Natarajan

Ms.R.Sumetha

Dr.R.Manthiram Karthik

Dr.V.Radhika

Advisory Committee

National Level
Prof. S. K. Bhattacharyya

Vice-Chancellor, Shiv Nadar University, Chennai, India.

Dr. N. Ganesan

Professor (HAG), Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Calicut, India.

Dr. G. Janardhanan

Professor
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
NITTTR, Chennai, India.

Dr. S. Ganesh Kumar

Senior Scientist,Department of Civil Engineering Assistant Professor, Academy of Scientific & InnovativeResearch (AcSIR),
CSIR, New Delhi, India.

Mr. Narayanan C S

Chief Executive Officer,
Artelia Consulting Engineers Ltd., Chennai, India.

Mr. K. Senthilnathan

Executive Vice President, Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Chennai,
India.

Er. Muralidharan N G

Chairman, ICI Chennai Center, India.

Mr. Ashok Kumar

Chief Executive Officer, CMTI Bangaluru, India.

International Level

Dr. Nemkumar (Nemy) Banthia

Professor and Senior Canada Research Chair (Emeritus), Department of Civil Engineering,
The University of British Columbia,Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Dr.Bashar S Mohammed

Associate Professor Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi
Petronas, Malaysia.

Ts. Dr. Salmia Beddu

Senior Lecturer, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia.

Dr. Moatasem Fayyadh

Principal Engineer – Civil and Structures,
Sydney water, Greater Sydney Area, Sydney, Australia.


Conference Themes


Project Management & BIM

Green Building, Infrastructure Materials & systems

Waste & Recycling Sustainable Infrastructure

Sustainable Soil System

Geo-environmental Engineering

Ground Improvement Techniques

Environmental Engineering and Sustainability

Transportation Engineering

Hydraulics, water resources and irrigation engineering

Possible Publication

List of Journals approached:

1. AIP Conference proceedings
2. Materials Science Forum
3. Sustainable Civil Infrastructure
4. E3S Web of Conferences
5. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
6. Materials Today Proceedings.

Registration Fees

Academician

2500

Student/Research scholar

1000

Industry Delegate

3500

Foreign delegates

$50

Participation As Author


If one wants to participate as an author, he/she needs to submit an abstract of their work related to the conference theme in the prescribed format to the conference mail id, during the period when the call for abstracts opens. All abstracts will be subjected to review and intimation of the selection will be sent to the corresponding author. Following this, the author, need to send in their full manuscript in the prescribed format to the conference mail ID when the call for full papers is open. The submitted papers will be subjected to peer review and selected papers for presentation will be intimated to the authors within the stipulated time. Authors whose papers have been selected for presentation need to register for the conference as an author by paying the registration fee when the time for registration is open.

Only the registered authors will be allowed to participate and present their papers in the conference. Accepted papers shall be recommended for publications in Scopus Indexed Journals at an additional fee as required.


Submit your abstract to the following conference mail ID: [email protected]