Sustainable Urban Architecture

Reinforcing the Long Forgotten Southern Frontier of Madras.- A Design Strategy for Integrating Densified Housing and Agriculture within Peri-Urban Zones.- A Review on Plastic Waste Assessment, and its Potential Use as Building Construction Material.- Envelope Performance Analysis of Office Buildings in Warm and Humid Climate.- Scientific Ideation towards Visionary Development Strategies for Indian Urban Environments.- Conservation and Protection of Peri Urban Rural Landscapes from the Impacts of Urbanization.- Place Identity along Highways: Location Choice of Elements using Distance and Isovist Measures.- Optimization of Building Envelope towards Energy Efficient Design.- Optimization of Building's Wall using Phase Change Material (PCM) towards Energy Performance Improvement.- Sustainable Water Management.- The Sustainable City-Intercellular Approach, Study of Urban Fabric Pattern, A Case Study Of Chennai City.- Redefining the relationship between Heritage and its community for sustainable development.- Shade Net to Reduce Building Cooling Load.

Dr. K. Thirumaran is an Architect from India. Since 1990, he has been practicing architecture and made many consultancy services for various projects. He is working as Professor in the Department of Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (NITT). He was the Head of the Department (HoD) in Architecture at NITT. He had served as the Member of BOG (Board of Governors) in NITT. He is carrying funded research project from TEQIP. He organized the first National Conference on Recent Trends in Architecture &Civil Engineering towards Energy Efficient and Sustainable Development - 2019 (NCACESD 2019) in the Department of Architecture, at NITT. He has organized many national-level workshops for the architecture students in building construction techniques and software skill developments. He authored the book "Impediments of French Architecture Facades in Contemporary Buildings of Puducherry" in the LAP LAMBERT Academic Publisher, UK. His research interest extends in the areas of Built Heritage and Urban Conservation of various historical temple towns and heritage towns, and also the sustainable built environment. Currently, many research scholars are doing their Ph.D. under his guidance. He has published more than 35 research papers in the peer-reviewed journals. He is also a reviewer in various international journals.

Dr. G. Balaji obtained an undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Architecture from the Thiagarjar college of Engineering, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his Masters in Architectural Conservation from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. His research interests include place attachment, morphological changes of channels and physiochemical variations in river water. He was a project coordinator for the joint venture