What we can offer
- Access to running building and road sites for field tests and monitoring
- Anonymised soil, concrete and brick test records
- Material price and cost data for construction-economics research
- Industry co-supervision and review of thesis chapters
- Trial use of new materials (fly ash, recycled aggregate, blocks) on suitable projects
Topics we are interested in
- Expansive and collapsible soils in Mirpur division
- Strength of local burnt-clay bricks and concrete blocks
- Low-cost seismic strengthening of load-bearing houses
- Cost & schedule overruns in AJK construction
- Rainwater harvesting and soakaways for hill towns
Engr. Atlas Karim Kataria is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Civil Engineering Department, MUST.
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