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Dr. Sivakumar
Palaniappan BSB 215A, Building Sciences Block, Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600036 Phone: (91) 44 2257 4258 E-mail: sp [at] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in |
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Education
Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ.
M.S., Building Tech. and Construction Management, Indian
Institute of Technology Madras
B.E., Civil Engineering, Madurai Kamaraj University
Research Interests
Planning and control of construction projects
Sustainable construction
Simulation based analysis of construction operations
Information technology application in construction
JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. PL. Sivakumar, Koshy Varghese,
and N. Ramesh Babu (2003). Automated
path planning of cooperative crane lifts using heuristic search. Journal
of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 17(3), 197-207.
2. Sawhney, A., Walsh, K.D.,
Bashford, H.H., and Palaniappan, S. (2009). Impact of inspected buffers on production parameters of
construction processes. Journal of Construction Engineering and
Management, ASCE, 135(4), 319-329.
3. Palaniappan, S., Bashford, H.
H., Li, K., Fafitis, A., and Stecker,
L. (2009). Carbon emissions based on transportation
for post-tensioned slab foundation construction: A production home building
study in the Greater Phoenix Arizona area. International Journal of
Construction Education and Research, Taylor and Francis, 5(4), 236-260.
4. L. Pinky Devi and Sivakumar
PALANIAPPAN (2014) A case study on life cycle
energy use of residential building in Southern India, Energy and
Buildings, Elsevier, 80, 247-259.
5. Anna George Nellickal and Sivakumar PALANIAPPAN (2015) Built
Environment Sustainability: Review of Key Concepts, NICMAR Journal of Construction
Management, 30(1), 5-18.
6. Sourabh Mehta, Arjun Chandur, Sivakumar PALANIAPPAN
(2017) Life Cycle Energy Assessment of a Multi-storey Residential Building, Journal of The Institution
of Engineers (India): Series A, Springer, June 2017, 98(1-2), 155-162.
7. L. Pinky Devi, Sivakumar
PALANIAPPAN (2017) A study on energy use for
excavation and transport of soil during building construction, Journal
of Cleaner Production, Elsevier, Volume 164, Pages 543-556.
8. L. Pinky Devi & Sivakumar Palaniappan (2018): Life cycle
energy analysis of a low-cost house in India, International Journal of
Construction Education and Research, Taylor and Francis, Published
online: 30 May 2018, DOI:
10.1080/15578771.2018.1476935
9. Narayanan, S., Kure, A.M. & Palaniappan,
S. (2018) Study on Time and Cost Overruns in Mega
Infrastructure Projects in India, Journal of The Institution of
Engineers (India): Series A, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40030-018-0328-1
CONFERENCE ARTICLES
1. Sivakumar, PL., Varghese, K.,
and Ramesh Babu, N. (1999). Path planning of
construction manipulators using genetic algorithms. Proc., 16th International Symposium
on Automation and Robotics in Construction, 555-560.
2. Sivakumar, PL., Varghese, K.,
and Ramesh Babu, N. (2000). Path planning of
cooperative construction manipulators using genetic algorithms. Proc., 17th
International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, 439-444.
3. Sivakumar, PL., Varghese, K.,
and Ramesh Babu, N. (2000). Automated path planning
of two 3-DOF planar cooperative manipulators using genetic algorithms. Proc.,
19th All India Manufacturing Technology and Design Research Conference,
445-450.
4. Sawhney, A., Bashford, H.H., Palaniappan, S., Walsh, K.D., and Thompson. J. (2005). A
discrete event simulation model to analyze the residential construction
inspection process. Proc., Int. Conf. on Computing in Civil Eng., ASCE, Reston,
Va.
5. Palaniappan, S., and Sawhney, A. (2006). Standard template library based
discrete event simulation engine. Symposium on Research in Engineering and
Applied Sciences, Fulton Graduate Student Association, Ira A. Fulton School of
Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
6. Palaniappan, S., Sawhney, A., and Sarjoughian,
H.S. (2006). Application of DEVS framework in construction simulation. Proc.,
Winter Simulation Conference, Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Piscataway, N.J., 2077-2086.
7. Mahalingam, A., Varghese, K., Sawhney, A., Palaniappan, S., and
Walsh, K.D. (2007). An integrated project planning system for tsunami mass
housing in India. Proc., Construction Research Congress, ASCE, Reston, Va.
8. Palaniappan, S., Sawhney, A., Janssen, M.A., and Walsh. K.D. (2007).
Modeling construction safety as an agent based emergent phenomenon. Proc., 24th
International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, 375-382.
9. Palaniappan, S., Sawhney, A., Bashford, H.H., and Walsh, K.D. (2007).
Special purpose simulation template for workflow analysis in construction.
Proc., Winter Simulation Conf., Institution of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Piscataway, N.J., 2090-2098.
10. Palaniappan, S., Bashford, H.
H., Fafitis, A., Li, K., and Stecker,
L. (2009). Carbon emissions based on ready-mix concrete transportation: A
production home building case study in the Greater Phoenix Arizona area. Proc.,
Associated Schools of Construction 45th Annual International Conference,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
11. Palaniappan, S., Bashford,
H., Li, K., Crittenden, J., Fafitis, A., Stecker, L. and Hay, S. (2012) Carbon emissions of on-site
equipment use in post-tensioned slab foundation construction, Proceedings of
ASCE Construction Research Congress, May 21-23, 1662-1671.
12. Pinky L. , Reddy, S.M. and Palaniappan, S. (2012) Application of life cycle assessment
for a residential building construction, Proceedings of the International Symposium
on Life Cycle Assessment and Construction, July 10-12, 213-222.
13. L. Pinky Devi, S. Aysha and S. Palaniappan (2014) Comparision of life cycle energy use of high-rise
residential buildings, 13th International Conference on Sustainable Energy
Technologies (SET2014), 1-11, Aug 25-28.
14. Anna George Nellickal,
A. Vijaya Rajendra, and Sivakumar PALANIAPPAN (2015) A conceptual lean-based
framework for improving the environmental performance of ready-mixed concrete
production processes, Proceedings of the 4th World Construction Symposium,
1-11, June 12-14, 2015, Colombo.
15. Anna George Nellickal,
A. Vijaya Rajendra, and Sivakumar PALANIAPPAN (2015) A simulation-based model for
evaluating the performance of ready-mixed concrete (RMC) production processes,
49th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 658-667, December 2-4, 2015, The University of
Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
16. L. Pinky Devi and Sivakumar Palaniappan (2016) A
Framework for Assessment of Energy Use of High-rise Building Construction
Processes, 2016 ASCE Construction Research Congress, 1010-1019, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, USA, May 31-June 2, 2016.
17. R. Gettu1, S. Prakasan,
A. Patel, V. Rathi, K. Nagrath,
S. Palaniappan, S. Maity
(2016) Process Mapping and Preliminary Assessment of Life Cycle Impact in
Indian Cement Plants, Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) Regional Conference
(Expanding Boundaries: Systems Thinking for the Built Environment), 430-435,
June 15-17, Zurich.
18. L. Pinky Devi and Sivakumar PALANIAPPAN (2017) Study of Human Embodied Energy
for Masonry Work During Building Construction, World Sustainable Built
Environment Conference 2017, 907-913.
19. Anna George Nellickal
and Sivakumar PALANIAPPAN (2017) Study of
Eco-Efficiency of Ready-Mixed Concrete Production Processes, International
Conference on Advances in Construction Materials and Systems (ICACMS 2017)
& RILEM PRO 118, Volume 4, 729-738, September 3-8, 2017, Chennai, India.
20. S. Palaniappan
& V. Bindu Inti (2018) Development of a
simplified methodology for creating embodied energy database of construction
materials and processes in India, IALCCE 2018: The Sixth International
Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, Life-Cycle Analysis and Assessment
in Civil Engineering: Towards an Integrated Vision, Editors: Robby Caspeele, Luc Taerwe & Dan M.
Frangopol, 833-839, ISBN 978-1-138-62633-1.
21. R.R. Omprakash
and Sivakumar Palaniappan
(2018) Techno-Economic Feasibility Study of using Solar Energy for Operating
Sewage Treatment Plants, 7th World Construction Symposium, Organized by the
Ceylon Institute of Builders (CIOB) & Department of Building Economics,
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (Recognized with the Built Environment and Project Asset
Management (BEPAM) Highly Commended Paper Award).
Edited Book
Sivakumar Palaniappan and Ashwin Mahalingam
(editors), Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances Building
Sciences, 2013, ISBN: 978-93-80689-11-1, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian
Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600036, India.
Courses
CE
5020 Construction Planning and Control
CE
5130 Construction Quality and Safety Management
CE
5014 Sustainable Construction
CE
3241 Approaches for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environmental Systems
CE
5100 Construction Software Lab
CE
2330 Building Materials and Construction
RESEARCH GUIDANCE
L.
Pinky Devi, Ph.D., Graduated in 2017
Anna
George Nellickal, M.S. by Research, Graduated in 2017
Sanoop Prakasan, M.S. by Research,
Co-guided with Prof. Ravindra Gettu,
Thesis under review.
SERVICE
Treasurer,
Indian Lean Construction Conference 2017, Chennai, India
Treasurer,
International Group for Lean Construction - IGLC 2018 Conference, Chennai,
India
Member
of the Scientific Committee, SBE 16 Regional Conference, ETH Zurich,
Switzerland
Member
of the Scientific Committee, WCS 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Member
of the Scientific Committee, ICACMS 2017, Chennai, India
Member
of the Scientific Committee, WCS 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Member
of the Scientific Committee, SBE 19 Regional Conference, TU Graz, Austria
Member
of the Scientific Committee, WCS 2019, Colombo, Sri Lanka
AWARDS
Best
Academic Performance Award, Bachelor of Engineering, 1993-1997.
University
Rank Holder, Madurai Kamraj University, 1993-1997.
Best
Presentation Award, 2006 Research in Engineering and Applied Sciences
Symposium, Fulton Graduate Students Association, Ira A. Fulton School of
Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
2007-2008
Graduate and Professional Student Association Research Grant Award, ASU Office
of the Vice-President for Research and Economic Affairs, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ.
Student
Grant Award, Associated Schools of Construction, 2009.
Conference Travel Grants, Division
of Graduate Studies and Graduate and Professional Student Association, Arizona
State University, Tempe, AZ.