Themes and Topics

​Theme 1: Construction Management and Process

• Construction management
• Information technology in infrastructure and construction management
• Organizational behavior and management of mega projects
• Lean construction
• Construction productivity
• Worker welfare, occupational health, and safety in construction
• Infrastructure and construction risk management
• Quality management in infrastructure and construction
• Construction procurement

Theme 2: Materials and Transportation Engineering

• Use of recycled materials in road construction
• Innovative pavement materials and design
• Pavement maintenance and rehabilitation techniques
• Pavement materials characterization
• Advances in Warm-Mix asphalt technologies
• Traffic control, simulations, and operations
• Road user behavior analysis and modeling
• Intelligent transportation systems
• Engineering management challenges in smart cities
• Traffic safety analysis and policy
• Sustainable public transport
• Logistics and freight transport operations
• Railway engineering

Theme 3: Geotechnical, Environmental, and Geo-environmental Engineering

• Tunnels and tunneling (including Micro Tunneling)
• Deep excavation and retaining structures
• Stability of slopes
• Stability of offshore, nearshore, and onshore oil, gas, and water pipelines
• Case Studies in Infrastructure Geotechnics
• Advanced urban drainage systems
• Comprehensive water resources management
• Advanced wastewater treatment processes
• Advances in landfill design
• Fate and transport of contaminates in subsurface systems
• Multiphase flow through porous media
• Nondestructive imaging and visualization of pore-scale processes
• Environmental noise and vibration     
  

Theme 4: Sustainability, Renovation, and Monitoring of Civil Infrastructure

• Sustainable materials and solutions
• Resilient civil infrastructure systems
• Advanced and non-corrosive composite materials
• Concrete and masonry structures
• Reinforced concrete structures
• Steel structures
• Infrastructure strengthening and rehabilitation
• Computational methods and soft computing in Civil Engineering applications
• Structural control and health monitoring
• Sustainable systems in infrastructure and construction
• Non-destructive leak detection in water and sewer networks
• Civil infrastructure assessment and hazardous risk mitigations of civil engineering systems
• Advanced measurements in Civil Engineering
• Infrastructure life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) and assessment (LCA)