Laboratories

• Computer Lab
• Concrete Technology Lab
• Environmental Engineering Lab
• GIS Lab
• Geotechnical Engineering Lab
• Geotextile Engineering Lab
• Structural Engineering Lab
• Experimental Stress Analysis Lab
• Surveying Lab
• Transportation Engineering Lab
• Water Resources Engineering Lab

Major Equipments

• Universal Testing Machines
• Test Cylinder Plant for Static Loads
• GPR System for concrete scanning and utility survey
• CAPO Test System
• Composite testing facility
• Datascan-Reinforcement Bar
• NDT System for Concrete
• Free and ForceVibration Test Set-up
• Computerized Triaxial Testing  Machine (GDS)
• SASW system
• Portable Falling Weight Deflectometer
• Bump integrator with Merlin
• Electronic Triaxial System
• ArcGIS Platform
• High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC)
• High-end Graphics Workstation
• High-end A0-size Color Scanner
• A0-size Color Plotter
• Gas Chromatograph with ECD
• Automatic Weather Recording Station
• Pile Integrity Testing Equipment
• Automatic Compression Testing Machine
• Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
• Field Asphalt Content Tester
• Hand-held Falling Weight Deflectometer
• V Box
• Digital Camera for traffic survey
• Laser Distometer

Computing Facility

• Own Internet (civil.becs.ac.in) with 2 servers, more than 95 Pentium IV PCs Connected through Local Area Network
• 24-hr Internet & e-mail Connectivity through 4 Mbps (shared) dedicated leased lines
• UG/PG computing laboratory with audio-visual facilities
• CBT/learning resources for all major UG subjects
• Number of Peripherals including Laser Printers, DeskJet Printers, Scanners etc.
• Various Analysis & Design Software including STAAD, STRUDS, Matlab, ANSYS, ABAQUS, ETABS, MPI compiler, HDM4 etc.

Innovation and Technological Development

• Development and Installation of a Highly Successful and Socially Accepted “Amal Arsenic Filter” at several Arsenic affected Villages in West Bengal and Bangladesh – first to install hand-pump attached arsenic removal unit in the world  
  • Developed domestic filter for arsenic and fluoride removal
  • Developed installed community filter for fluoride removal
• Development of High Strength High Volume Fly Ash Concrete (1st time in India)
• Technology development for high performance Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete

Transportation lab instrument 1

Structural lab loading frame

Environment lab instrument 3

Environment lab instrument 1

Concrete lab UTM machine