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Preface Icsss’19 Proceedings of International Conference on SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES 15-16, November 2019 (Sponsored by AICTE, New Delhi) INTRODUCTION It gives me immense pleasure in writing the preface for the proceedings of The International Conference on Sustainable Systems and Structures (ICSSS’19) that was organised during November 15-16, 2019 by the Department of Civil Engineering, MVGR College of Engineering (Autonomous), Vizianagaram, 535005, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA. A proposal for GOC (Grant for Organising Conference) was submitted by myself Dr P Markandeya Raju, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, MVGR in 2017. A matching grant of Rs. 5 Lakhs was sanctioned by AICTE, New Delhi (F. No. 67-20/RIFD/GOC/Policy-1/2017 dated 28-02-2019) . The Conference was scheduled to be held in person and organised during November 15th - 16th 2019. The program included Five keynote lectures given by experts in various fields and 37 oral presentations given by renowned Professors, practising engineers and research scholars working in various areas of Sustainable Civil Engineering. All the five invited speakers delivered keynote lectures on topics of their expertise related to recent trends in sustainable Civil Engineering followed by brief interaction. Four technical sessions were organised during which authors made oral presentations followed by question and answer. One best paper was chosen from among the papers presented on each day based on the novelty, presentation and response to questions and the Best paper award were presented. The conference was held in the A/C Auditorium of MVGR. This preface presents an overview of this conference, details of Organising committee members, themes and sub-themes of the conference, review process adopted and schedule of the conference including the details of keynote lectures. An Annexure with details of the Management, College and the Department has been included at the end followed by Photo gallery of the conference.List of About the Conference, Advisory Committee, Chief Patrons,Patron, Members, Technical Advisory Board, International, National, Organizing Committee, Chairman, Organizing Secretary, Coordinators, Members, Conference Themes And Sub-Themes, Review Process, Program Schedule, Annexure and Photos are available in this pdf.