Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (ICCESD 2024)

Conference: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (ICCSED 2024)
Date: 7-9 February 2024
Location: Khulna, Bangladesh (Hybrid)
Website: https://iccesd.com/index.html

The Department of Civil Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), has been successfully organizing the International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (ICCESD) in every even year from 2012. The seventh event of ICCESD has been held during February 7–9, 2024, at KUET campus, Khulna, Bangladesh. KUET is one of the leading public universities of Bangladesh, which is located at the southwestern coastal region. This conference opens a window of exchanging the scientific and technological information among all the participants from home and abroad. The overall goal of this conference is to create a successful forum where academicians, researchers, scientists, engineers and scholars in all area of Civil Engineering presented their views, ideas and experiences on developments and requirements in Civil Engineering and to contribute in shearing Civil Engineering knowledge.

In ICCESD 2024, after a two-step review process, a total of 451 technical papers (out of 1018 submissions) have been selected to present in the conference, and finally 402 papers were presented. Among those, based on the quality, 61 papers were initially been selected for the possible in the Atlantis Press Conference Proceeding. After the second review and author’s preference, only 26 papers have been selected to publish in the Atlantis Press Conference Proceeding. Rest of the technical presented papers are now available in ICCESD website. The pre-conference Abstract Proceedings was also published that contains the abstracts of 451 accepted papers.

I would like to acknowledge the enormous efforts of the authors who have contributed by submitting their papers. I would like to express the gratitude to all reviewers for their careful evaluation, constructive comments and suggestions to improve the manuscript. Heartiest thanks to the Editorial Committee of ICCESD 2024. Finally, the professional encouragements and tireless supports of our all colleagues from all committees formed for ICCESD 2024 are gratefully acknowledged.

The sponsoring facilities offered by AZ Dredging Ltd.; Chinese Enterprises Association in Bangladesh; Holcim; Poles and Concrete Ltd.; Menard; Spectra Group; Maxcrete; Seven Rings Cement; Shamsun International; KSRM Ltd.; and CRTS (Civil) are highly appreciated and acknowledged.

The next event of ICCESD will be held on February 2024 in the same venue. We hope that this initiative will be sustained in the next event of ICCESD.

Md. Rokonuzzaman

Proceeding Editor