Institutional Members

• In its 7th meeting held on April 23, 2008, the National Advisory Committee of NICEE suggested that NICEE may now initiate the "Institutional Membership" wherein the organizations could contribute Rs. 25 thousand/year (or more) and enjoy certain privileges (such as free copies of publications, discounts on bulk purchase of publications for distribution to their clients/employees, supply of literature, etc).
• The Institutional Membership of NICEE will enable organizations and companies to contribute towards the agenda of seismic safety in a systematic manner, and to support various capacity building activities of NICEE. It will also enable NICEE to better recognize its large supporters and contributors.

Membership:

• NICEE offers two levels of Institutional Memberships:
  • Platinum Subscribing Members (Rs. 4 lakh/year and up; US$ 10,000 per year)
  • Gold Subscribing Members (Rs. 1 lakh/year and up; US$ 2,500 per year)
  • Silver Subscribing Members (Rs. 25 thousand/year and up; US$ 550 per year)
• The contributions of Institutional Members will be recognized as follows:
  • NICEE will send five coopies of all its new publications to the Institutional Members.
  • Should the Institutional Members wish to make bulk purchase of NICEE publications for distribution to their employees/ clients/ customers, the same will be made available at 40% discount over the list price.
  • NICEE will send upto 10 copies to Gold and up to 25 copies to Platinum. Subscribing Members of its periodical Earthquake Engineering Practice for distribution to their employees. NICEE will also highlight the names of its Insititutional Members on the periodical.
  • NICEE will loan (subject to availability) books and other publications from its library to the Institutional Members: upto 2 books at a given point of time can be loaned to an Institutional Member. It will also extend reasonable amount of help to the Institutional Members in procuring any specific publications on earthquake engineering.
  • Institutional Members may release periodical announcements (upto 2 times a year) through NICEE on its mailing list (currently, about 9500 subscribers). This may include job vacancies, new developments, services and products, etc.
  • NICEE will recognize the Institutional Members through a page on its website and provide a link to the organizations, website.
• The Institutional Members will be managed as per calender yer, with subscriptions/donations becoming due the previous calender year. For instance, those who will contribute up to December 2008 will be Institutional Members for the year 2009.
• The Institutional Members may express their preference if their contribution should go into the general corpus of NICEE or be utilized for the current expenditure. In case of latter, they may indicate their preference towards specific current activities of NICEE that should be supported through their contribution and the activity per se may additionally acknowledge the Insitutional Members as the supporter/sponsor of that activity. For instance, currently NICEE is acknowledging financial support for the periodical Earthquake Engineering Practice from donors/members contributing more than Rs 2 lakh/year (US$ 5000 per year)