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Smitha J. S.

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Dr. Smitha J. S.

Faculty of Civil Engineering Department

smitha@mes.ac.in

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Education

  • Ph.D. 2026 IIT Bombay in Civil Engineering (Circular Economy in Built Environment)
  • M.E. 2018: Mumbai University in Construction Engineering and Management
  • B.Tech. 1999: College of Engineering Trivandrum in Civil Engineering

Courses

UG:

  • Surveying
  • Transportation Engineering
  • Quantity Surveying and Estimation
  • Construction Management
  • Transportation Infrastructure

PG:

  • Design of Green Building

Publications

PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

  • Smitha and Thomas, 2016. A novel Building Circularity Assessment Framework (BCAF) for practising Circular Economy in the Built Environment”, Circular Economy and Sustainability, Springer Nature.
  • Smitha and Thomas, 2025. A framework to analyse environmental benefits of circular economy driven strategies in the built environment from a life cycle analysis perspective. Journal of Building Engineering, p.114132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2025.114132. ISSN: 2352-7102
  • Smitha and Thomas, 2021. Integrated model and index for circular economy in the built environment in the Indian context. Construction Economics and Building, 21(3), pp.198-220. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v21i3.7684. ISSN 2204-9029

PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  • Smitha and Thomas, 2024. A Life-Cycle Analysis-Based Framework to Analyze Various Circular Economy Strategies in Buildings. In Construction Research Congress 2024 (in association with ASCE) (pp. 427-436). https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784485279.044
  • Smitha and Thomas, 2020. A life cycle analysis based framework to promote circular economy in the building sector. In Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI-2020).

BOOK CHAPTER

  • Smitha and Thomas, 2022, April. A life cycle analysis based framework to promote circular economy in the building sector. In Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI-2020)—Structure and Construction Management:
    Conference Proceedings from ICRDSI-2020 Volume 1 (pp. 173-183). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-8433-3_16

Patent

Patent Granted.
Patent Number: 445979
Application Number 202121039462
Date of Filing 31/08/2021
Title: Method and process of manufacturing P-Tiles using waste plastic and other required materials

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