Prof. Dr. Engr. Shamim Z. Basunia, PEng

Prof. Dr. Engr. M. Shamim Z. Bosunia is a prominent academician, leader and structural engineering expert of Bangladesh. He was born on 31 January 1944. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1965 from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and joined Dept. of Civil Engineering as a Lecturer in 1969. He completed his master’s in Civil Engineering in 1972 from BUET. On a Commonwealth Scholarship, he earned his PhD in 1979 from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He became a Professor of Civil Engineering in 1981. He retired from BUET in 2009 and is now serving as Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Asia Pacific (UAP), Dhaka.

Apart from his teaching and research activities, Prof. Bosunia also successfully served in many administrative positions. He was the Head of the Department of Civil Engineering in 1985-87 and Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in 1990-92. He also served as the Director of Students Welfare in 1997-99. He also served as hall Provost and Advisor to different sports and games. As an expert Civil Engineer, he served as the Chairman of all Civil Engineering committees of Bangladesh Standard Testing Institution (BSTI) and played a vital role in setting up Bangladeshi standards of various construction materials. He also served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Housing and Building Research Institute (HBRI) as well as a Member of the selection board for Faculty Members of DUET, CUET, KUET and RUET. He also served as an independent Director of the Prime Bank Limited as well as the Chairman of the Board of Rajshahi WASA. Presently, he is serving as an Adviser of GPH Ispat and Member of the Advisory Council (Academic) of North South University,Bangladesh.

As an expert in the field of structural engineering and concrete construction, Prof. Bosunia is rendering various consultancy services in the capacity of Team Leader or member for the last four decades. Areas of his works include the East-West Interconnector Transmission Line over Jamuna, 500 bed hospital in Bogra, repair and rehabilitation of hundreds of cyclone shelters in the coastal areas of Bangladesh and preparing master plan for cyclone shelters, repair and strengthening of Bangabandhu National Stadium and Mirpur Cricket Stadium, design of a number of high-rise buildings in the country that includes the 39-storied City Centre in Dhaka, design of Mirpur Indoor Stadium, design of various bridges of RHD and many more. Presently, he is serving as a member of the Panel of Experts for the mega projects Padma Multipurpose Bridge and theKarnaphuli Tunnel appointed by the govt. of Bangladesh. He is also the president of Bangladesh Association of Consulting Engineers (BACE).

Prof. Bosunia is famous in the engineering community as a specialist structural and concrete design expert. As a leading expert concrete technologist, he made significant contribution to the first Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) published in 1993. Areas of his contribution include building materials, design of concrete and ferrocement structures, evaluation of existing buildings etc. Prof. Bosunia published more than thirty of journal papers, research articles etc. throughout his career which stand as excellent references to the engineering community. His popularity and leadership capability made him the President of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) for the term 2013-14.