Because of the proficiency of the Department in Civil Engineering, various government divisions, Public Sector Undertakings and industries in the private sector approach the learned faculty for undertaking various research and consultancy projects.

Complex design, construction and maintenance problems of the infrastructure sector are resolved through the intervention of the expert faculty of the Civil Engineering Department. The consultancy projects are undertaken for arriving at practical solutions to problems of special nature. The sponsoring agencies include, among others, Ministry of HRD, Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Environment and Forests, DST, BRNS, CSIR, ONGC, EIL, CWC. To name a few organisations which took consultancy on various projects from the Department include DDA, DJB, NDMC, MCD, Northern Railways, NTPC, BSES, Power Grid Corporation, Unitech, Konkan Railways, Grasim, L&T, IRCON, RITES and others.