An expert talk on Introduction and Fundamentals of Pavement Materials and Testing, Pavement Design Methods & Design Software and IRC Guidelines Overview & Innovations and Sustainable Practiceson 27th January 2026, to a training assignment for the Technical Staff of Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation, covering officials from different departments at All-India Institute of Local Self Government (AIILSG), Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India.
An expert talk on Airport Planning and Designingon 14th April 2025 at Dr. Akhilesh Das Institute of Technology & Management, New Delhi, India.
An expert talk on FlexPave: Mastering Flexible Pavement Analysis and Designon 14th March 2024 at Indus Institute of Technology and Engineering, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Assisted Consultancy Works
Evaluating the adequacy of the mix design of flexible pavement layers for Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) with GSB-V, WMM, DBM-I, DBM-II, BC-II, and SDBC mix.
Technical opinion regarding the use of VG40 grade bitumen in bituminous road works of Surat Municipal Corporation, and if required, suggesting a new design as per the latest IRC guidelines using either VG30 or VG40 grade bitumen for different categories of roads.
Construction of new, carpeting/re-carpeting roads of societies and trench line reinstatement by the contractor’s own batch mix type hot mix plant and wet mix type (WMM) plant to be installed within Surat city limits and manual paver finisher with other allied works, including providing traffic measures, etc., for roads in the north zone (Katargam) jurisdiction of Surat city, Gujarat, India.
Road safety audit (post-new construction) before opening, covering an 11 km stretch in Udaipur city, Rajasthan, India.
Evaluation of rigid pavement for road marking and skid resistance after new construction at the Gondia–Nagpur highway, Maharashtra, India for 14 km.
Regarding the design of the strengthening work of the existing ring road- 1 from Bedi junction to Maliyasan Junction (NH-27), Rajkot, Gujarat, India.
New flexible pavement design for Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) roads for 5 msa traffic using cementitious treated base (CBT) and without CBT layers.
Pavement functional and structural evaluation of MMGSY roads at Dahod, Vadali and Morbi districts of Gujarat state using lightweight deflectometer (LWD).
Resurfacing of Surat-Olpad-Sahol Four-Laning Road km. 9/8 to 29/2, dist. Surat, India.
Technical opinion regarding the new flexible pavement design, or flexible pavement overlay or CC pavement overlay on the existing three road stretches with heavy commercial vehicle traffic in Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) as per the latest Indian Road Congress guidelines of flexible pavement evaluation, maintenance and design.
Pavement functional and structural evaluation of MMGSY roads at Anand, Vadali and Kheda districts using the Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) test.
Pavement structural evaluation of 6 road stretches at Dholera Special Investment Region – Activation Area, Roads and Services, Dholera, India.
(Ongoing)
Pavement structural evaluation and maintenance recommendation on National Highway (NH48 - From Palsana to Vapi National Highway) using Heavy Weight Deflectometer (HWD).
Structural evaluation of granular layer (GSB and WMM) with Geogrid (Biaxial) in a two-layer system using the Plateload test at NH 146 Vidisha Madhya Pradesh, India.