Center of Excellence in

Sustainable Urban Development

Kolluru V.L. SubramaniamCoordinator, FAST center

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Thrust Areas

Center of Excellence in Sustainable

Urban Development

Resilient Smart Infra-structure

• Low cost strengthening

• Sensor-based monitoring

Sociology of the

Digital City

Sustainable Infrastructure Materials

• Low-carbon and Energy Materials

• Recycled Materials

Integrated Water Resource Management

• Rural and Urban Water supply

• conservation at micro-scale

Environ-mental

Solutions

Co-Ordinator: K.V.L. Subramaniam

Center of Excellence in Sustainable Urban Development

Creating a platform for researchers to work across disciplines towards developing solutions;

Technology Development in specific thrust areas;

Highly qualified graduates trained in research and technology development

CoESUD

Objectives

Thrust 1: Sustainable

Infrastructure Materials

Civil Engg

Chemistry

Research Topics and Deliverables

Development of Low-Carbon cements for construction using Fly Ash

Improved masonry products for providing sustainable rural housing solutions

CoESUD

Thrust 2: Resilient Smart

Infrastructure

Civil Engg

Elect. Engg.

Research Topics and Deliverables

Low-cost strengthening systems for Civil Infrastructure

Development of indigenous manufacturing of sensors at low-cost for smart infrastructure with intelligent monitoring.

CoESD

Thrust 3: Integrated Water

Management

Civil Engg Hydrology

Research Topics and Deliverables

Framework for comprehensive integrated water management in urban cities of India

CoESD

Thrust 4: Environmental

Solutions

Civil Engg.

Chemistry

Liberal Arts

Research Topics and Deliverables

Low-Cost water purifiers

Monitoring and treatment schemes for emerging contaminants

Advanced Oxidation for SOx,/NOx remediation

CoESUDCoagulation/

flocculation

Biological

treatment

Ion

exchange

Oxidation

technology

Membrane

filtration

Water

Treatment

Adsorption

Thrust 5: Sociology of

the city

Assessing the attitude of stakeholders with

diverse interests such as industrialists, urban

civic authorities, lower/middle/upper income

groups towards water consumption,

environmental pollution, and policy initiatives

such as e-governance technologies to improve

quality of life.

CoESUD

Research Topics and Deliverables

Liberal Arts

Civil Engg.

Faculty and Department Involvement

Civil Engineering

• Structural Engrg.• Structural

Materials• Environmental

Engrg. • Water Resources

Electrical Engineering

• Communication• Sensors

Chemistry

• Water Treatment

• Inorganic Chemistry

Material Science

• Sensors• Nano Materials• Material

Processing

Liberal Arts

• Sociology• Economics

CoESUD

CoESUD Thrust Groups at IITHResilient and Smart Infrastructure

•Prof. K.V.L. Subramaniam (CE)Dr. S. Suriyaprakash(CE)•

•Dr. Rajalakshmi(EE) Sociology of the Digital City

• Dr. N. Haripriya (LA)• Dr.Asif Qureshi (CE)• Dr.Riddhi Singh (CE)

Sustainable Infrastructure Materials

•Prof. K.V.L. Subramaniam (CE)• Dr. Ch. Subrahmanyam(Chem.)

Integrated Water Resource Management

•Dr. K.B.V.N. Phanindra (CE)• Dr. Basudeb Biswal (CE)

Environmental Solutions and Public Health

• Dr. T. Shashidhar (CE)• Dr. AsifQureshi(CE)• Dr. DebrajBhattacharyya (CE)

Broader Outcomes/Programs of Study

Academics:

CoESD

The Center facilitates inter-disciplinary work which is taken up by graduate

students enrolled in the different departments while working on specific projects

related to the thrust areas.

PhD Additional manpower

Research

Publications

(since Sep. 2015)10 PhD students funded

through the project

1 Post-doctoral

researcher appointed on

the project.

4 M.Tech students

8 International journal

(7 under review)

12 (International

conferences)

Outreach:

Workshop on Bio-reactor technology for Indian Cities, Feb. 20, 2016 Report on Hydrogeological and Quality Analysis of six gram panchayats in

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Key Technology DevelopmentTechnology development is being pursued in the following areas:

Low cost construction materials using waste materials

Activated Fly ash based binders for use as replacement of

cement in construction are being developed

Low-cost sensors for infrastructure monitoring

Embedded PZT-based sensors and sensing technology for intelligent monitoring of concrete structures

Embedded sensor developed at IIT

Hyderabad

Key Technology DevelopmentTechnology development is being pursued in the following areas:

Low cost water treatment solutions for safe drinking water

An innovative concept which integrates adsorption and oxidation by

development a tailor made activated carbon adsorbent with nano-metal

impregnation is being developed. Bio-waste like rice husk is being used

and optimization is being conducted to develop high surface required

Bio-reactor for effective treatment for effluent treatment

A novel Sequencing Batch Reactor with innovative features which

simplify operations for use by individual industries and small-scale

residential communities for treating effluent is being developed.

Key Technology DevelopmentTechnology development is being pursued in the following areas:

Framework for comprehensive integrated water management in urban cities of India

Adaptive robust decision making framework for managing water uses

among multiple stakeholders

Integrated hydrologic modeling, aquifer mapping, and watershed development

in a GIS-based framework developed at IIT Hyderabad

Budget summary

Opening balance

on 1st April 2016

Amount received

during April-Sept 2016

Amount

Spent

Balance

available

38.12 155.09 41.97 151.23

Item Expenditure

Equipment purchase 5.31

Research expenses

(consumables)

15.74

Research related travel 0.09

Training

Any other

Manpower

Contingencies

17.58

3.25

Total 41.97

•Expenditure and fund position (in Rs. Lakh only) •Details of Expenditure made during this period: (in Rs lakhs)

Potential Collaboration

IC-IMPACTSIndia-Canada Centre for

Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnerships to Accelerate

Community Transformation and Sustainability

CoESD

Global Center of Excellence for

Sustainable Urban Regeneration

CoESUD

cSUR

University of Tokyo

Implementation Plan

2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19

Research into Development of Technology/Products/

FrameworkLaboratory evaluation Deployment of Technology

MHRD Funding

Additional funding from Civic Bodies

Thank You!