Awarded as “Sir Arthur Cotton Memorial Prize” by “The Institution of Engineers (India)” at 32nd Indian Engineering Congress held in Chennai dated 21-23 December, 2017 for research paper entitled "An Experimental Investigation of Mechanical Properties in Clay Brick Masonry by Partial Replacement of Fine Aggregate with Clay Brick Waste" (published in the Springer Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India) 2016, Vol. 97, Issue 3).