J. P. KAUSHISH, former Deputy Director, Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, and former faculty, University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) has worked in CBRI in different capacities and was the Head of Building Plants and Processes Division for over two decades. He has received three times the coveted National Award, constituted by the National Research Development Corporation for meritorious innovations. Mr. Kaushish has to his credit seven Indian Patents on his innovative development of machines. He has authored over half-a-dozen books on various aspects of production engineering and has also published fifty research papers in reputed journals.