The Department of Civil Engineering successfully hosted a guest lecture titled “Sustainability, Resilience, and Digital Transformation in Structural Engineering: Insights from ASCE COS 73” on 3rd December 2025, delivered by Ms. Radhi Majmudar, Founding Principal of Innovative Structural and Specialty Engineering (ISSE), and witnessed enthusiastic participation from postgraduate students and faculty members.
Ms. Majmudar, a structural engineer with over thirty-five years of professional experience, shared valuable insights drawn from her extensive international portfolio spanning five continents. She introduced participants to Standard Practice for Sustainable Infrastructure, ASCE COS 73, the emerging performance-based sustainability standard that is redefining procurement language, engineering workflows, and long-term infrastructure planning across the United States and Europe. Emphasizing the need for outcome-driven design, she explained how COS 73 integrates sustainability, resilience, life-cycle performance, and systems thinking into contemporary engineering practice.
The session concluded with an engaging interactive discussion that highlighted the critical importance of sustainability in the context of the recent cyclone-related catastrophe in Sri Lanka.
