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BISHWAJIT BHATTACHARJEE is a former Emeritus Professor in the Department of Civil
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He obtained his B. Tech. (Hons.) degree from IIT
Kharagpur. He completed his M. Tech. and PhD degrees from IIT Delhi. He worked for M/s. Gammon India
Ltd. for two years after B. Tech. Prof. Bhattacharjee developed five video courses on concrete technology,
energy efficiency, sustainability, and green buildings, under the NPTEL project, which are available on
YouTube as opensource. His bio-sketch titled "A teacher and research worker" under the feature "People"
is available in the August 2012 issue of ICJ, and with the title "Gems of Structural Engineering" in Structural
Engineering Forum of India (SEFI). He was a member of the editorial board of "Magazine of Concrete
Research". Email: bishwa@civil.iitd.ac.in
Cite this article: Bhattacharjee, B. (2026). “100 Years of concrete materials science”, The Indian Concrete Journal, Vol. 100, No. 1,
pp. 9-48.

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