Prof. Varma is a member of several national level committees drafting codes / specifications for the design of steel, concrete, and composite structures. He is a voting member of the AISC committee of specifications (COS), which is the pinnacle committee responsible for all the AISC codes / specifications. He is also a voting member of the ACI 349 committee for the design of safety-related nuclear facilities. He is a newly (2018) appointed voting member of the ASCE 7 main committee of minimum design loads for buildings and other structures.

Prof. Varma is the current chair of the AISI / AISC national task committee 8 on the fire design of steel structures. This committee is responsible for preparing the ballots for AISC 360, App. 4 Fire Design, and for addressing all the comments and suggestions. He is also a member of the AISC national task committee 5 on the design of composite members. This committee is responsible for preparing the ballots for AISC 360, Chapter I – Composite, and AISC 341, Chapters G, H.

Prof. Varma is the current chair of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Metals Technical Administrative Committee (TAC), which in charge of all the metals technical committees in SEI. Prof. Varma is the past chair (2010 -2016) of the ASCE SEI/ACI committee of composite construction, and also the past vice-chair (2007-16) of the AISC ad-hoc sub-committee on modular composite construction for nuclear facilities.

American Society of Civil Engineers

2001 - Current, Member

2010 - 2016, Chair of Committee on Composite Construction

2003 - 2009, Member of Committee on Composite Construction (control group)

2017 - Current, Chair, Metals Technical Activities Committee

2018 - Current, Member, Main Committee: ASCE/SEI 7 - Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures

American Institute of Steel Construction

2001 -Current, Member and AISC Milek Faculty Fellow.

2014 - Current, Member of AISC Committee of Specification (CoS)

2016 - Current, Chair of AISC/AISI Task Committee 8 – Fire Design of Steel Structures

2004 - Current, Member of Task Committee 5 – Composite Construction

2014 - 2016, Member of Task Committee 12 – Nuclear Structures

2007 - 2016, Vice-Chair of Sub-committee on Modular Composite Construction for Task Committee 12 – Design of Steel Structures for Nuclear Facilities

2007 - 2016, Member of Sub-committee (SC6) on Composite Structures for Task Committee 9 – Seismic Design Provisions for Steel Structures.

2011- 2016, Member of Sub-committee (SC5) on the Seismic Design Manual for the AISC Committee on Manuals

 

American Concrete Institute

2014 - Current, Member of ACI Committee 349 - Safety-Related Nuclear Facilities

2015 - 2016,  Chair of SEI/ACI Committee 335 – Composite and Hybrid Systems

2009 - 2015,  Member of ACI Committee 335 - Composite and Hybrid Systems

Structural Stability Research Council

1998 - Current ,Member

2011 - 2014,  Chairperson of TG06 - Extreme Loads