Dr. Rahul V. Ralegaonkar

Professor

Brief Bio
Dr. Rahul V. Ralegaonkar has completed B.E. (Civil-1998), M.E. (Civil-2000) & Ph.D. (Energy Efficient Buildings-2005). He worked for a year in industry at managerial post in GIS industry and Civil Construction industry. Rest 20 years he has been associated with academics including research, testing, consultancy of civil engineering materials, projects etc. He was awarded one of the most prestigious Indo-US BHAVAN Fellowship by DST, New Delhi to work at University of Texas, US during 2016. He has been awarded Visiting Professor post at Liverpool John Moores University, UK since 2019. Apart from US and UK he also travelled to Australia and Singapore for research exchange programs. He has 4 international and 3 national awards to his credit for novel product design which are used as energy efficient construction materials. He was also awarded doctoral fellowship by National Renewable Energy Fellowship by Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, New Delhi. He holds international diploma certification to serve as sustainability practioner for CSR activities and rendered his services to Fondazione Cariplo, Italy for bio-economy related research projects. He is presently working as Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India with keen interest in broad areas of Sustainable Construction Engineering. He has completed several R & D sponsored projects of National and International repute and Currently working for three projects funded by Ministry of Coal Mines & Truform Industries Pvt. Ltd.. He has been awarded the technology pre-incubation support under the Affordable Sustainable Housing Accelerator Program by Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Government of India. Eight technologies related to sustainable construction materials were granted patent. Two software tools were designed and received copyright for design of carbon minus building designs & implementation of sustainable technologies in large scale construction projects. Till date over 175 publications were brought out at international and national level. He has authored three books & contributed over five chapters in international handbooks published by Elsevier and IGI global publishers. He was Associate Dean for Training & Placement (2019-2020), Summer Internship Program Coordinator (2020-2021). Presently 10 doctoral candidates, over 55 master’s candidates and 15 graduating student groups have completed their projects under his supervision. As the interactions with other professionals are concerned, the lecture notes were published and presented in more than 30 training programs. More than 120 lectures were delivered as invited speaker on several management and engineering topics like energy management, energy economics, application of sustainable technologies in construction industry and disaster management, etc. at various national and international level interactive platforms. As an organising committee member including principal coordinator and secretary for workshops, training program and national conference more than 60 events were participated. He has been lead editor for SCI Journals and is also actively involved with technical forums as an editorial board member and the reviewer for several journals and conferences at national and international level. He has also been awarded Excellence in review award 2021 for the Journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier Journal. He is also a member of Board of Studies for several deemed universities. He was also associated with National Mission projects like Principal Nodal Officer for E-hub of Ministry of Skill development program, Nodal coordinator for Housing for all program of Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, New Delhi and Member for Environmental clearance cell constituted by Local Improvement trust. He is a technical advisor to the construction chemical company M/s Apple Chemie India Pvt. Ltd., Nagpur which is a part of Indigo Paints.

Research Interest
Sustainable Construction Materials
Construction Technology & Management
Energy Efficient Buildings

Education

DegreeYearSpecializationUniversity
PhD2005Energy Efficient BuildingsBITS, Pilani
M.E.2000Civil EngineeringBITS, Pilani
B.E.1998Civil EngineeringNagpur University, Nagpur

Contact Details

Phone:9823128835
Email:rvralegaonkar@civ.vnit.ac.in
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Department of Civil Engineering, VNIT, Nagpur-440010

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