Designing with Alternative Building Materials and Review of Building Materials (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032333182)

Kalyan Kumar Ganguly (Gangopadhyay) received his BE in civil engineering from Jadavpur University in 1964. He is a qualified Chartered Engineer (London) and obtained his PhD from Teesside, UK, in 1972. He has more than 57 years of experience in India and the UK, covering design, site supervision, project management, research, and teaching. The spectrum of projects includes bridges, power projects, fertilizer projects, chemical plants, heavy civil engineering projects, university complexes, hotels and resorts, research centres, housing and commercial complexes. Some of the special projects involving alternative building materials will include ferro-cement, compressed earth blocks, rammed earth construction, etc. He has also handled repair and rehabilitation projects on buildings, bridges, and heritage structures.