BUET-JIDPUS, in association with the Civil Engineering Department, BUET organized the 1st conference of this institute titled “International Conference on Disaster Risk Mitigation 2017 (ICDRM 2017)”. This conference was organized as a component of the (Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project) HEQEP Sub-Project CP-3140 of BUET-JIDPUS. It had addressed various topics related to natural disasters and techniques or methodology to mitigate the impact of such disasters. More than 80 papers were accepted for the conference.