Dr. Rahul V. Ralegaonkar

Dr. Rahul V. Ralegaonkar has completed B.E. (Civil-1998), M.E. (Civil-2000) & Ph.D. (Energy Efficient Buildings-2005). Last 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. He has 4 international and 3 national awards to his credit for novel product design which are used as energy efficient construction materials. He holds international diploma certification to serve as sustainability practitioner for CSR activities and rendered his services to Fondazione Cariplo, Italy for bio-economy related research projects. He is presently working as Professor in 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.