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NICEE Activities 1. Workshop for Under Graduate Architecture
Students in Third Year 2.
Inter-School Quiz Competition
on IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips 2024-25 3.
Literature Review
Workshop for Post Graduate Students 4.
Open House of NICEE 5.
Intimation
Regarding Change of Postal Address/ email id 6.
RESIST Software
Available for Individual Users 7.
Members in News Conferences 8.
18th World Conference on Earthquake
Engineering (WCEE2024), June 30 – July 05, 2024 Milan, Italy Excerpts from other
Newsletters 9.
Newsletter of Earthquake Engineering
Research Institute (EERI), USA Support to NICEE 10. Recent
Donors to NICEE Details: 1. Workshop for Under Graduate
Architecture Students in Third Year The workshop for
Architecture students is scheduled to be held at IIT Kanpur during June
11-15, 2024. The studio sessions will be held during these dates. The lectures
will be conducted on two weekends prior to these dates. The schedule for the
same will be announced closer to the dates. The aim of this workshop is to
draw the attention of Architecture students towards keeping the earthquake
engineering aspects in view while designing their structures. For details
about previous workshops please visit http://www.nicee.org/Architecture_Workshop/
. For further details or any queries please contact: Suresh Ailawadi
at Tele - 0512 – 259 7749, Fax – 0512 – 259 7794 or Email:
asuresh@iitk.ac.in. 2. Inter-School Quiz
Competition based on IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips 2024-25 The invite for the Inter School Quiz has been sent
to all. In case your school has not received the invite please do let us
know. For further details please visit http://www.nicee.org/Quiz/quiz.htm
. Members willing to enthuse and/ or conduct the preliminary round of
quiz in their city of residence may please contact: Suresh Ailawadi at Tele -
0512 – 259 7749, or E-mail: asuresh@iitk.ac.in 3. Literature Review Workshop for Post
Graduate Students The Annual Workshop
for post graduate students pursuing their masters or doctorate degree with
thesis in earthquake engineering is scheduled to be held during May 09 – 18,
2024. For further details please visit the website. 4. Open House of NICEE The open house is held with the aim to enable postgraduate
students to conduct literature survey for their thesis related to earthquake
engineering issues and interact with the faculty and professionals. The Open
House also welcomes professional engineers and architects to help them
familiarize themselves with enormous literature available at NICEE on design
and construction of safe habitat. The details of the Open House will be
promulgated shortly. For further details or any queries please contact : Suresh Ailawadi at Tele - 0512 – 259 7749, Fax –
0512 – 259 7794 or E-mail: asuresh@iitk.ac.in 5. Intimation Regarding Change of Postal Address/ email id It gives me great pleasure to inform you that we
currently have more than 15,400 subscribers on NICEE list. At times we face
problem of our mails being blocked by the outside servers with the
presumption that we are spamming. We would therefore like to request you to please do
inform us as and when you switch over from one email id
to another. We will stop sending mails to your old email id and will
subscribe your current email id to nicee-list so that you continue to receive
communication from NICEE. Similarly, it is our earnest request that please do
let us know whenever you want us to change your postal address and we will
update our records. You may please inform us by sending a mail to
nicee@iitk.ac.in. 6. RESIST Software Available for Individual Users RESIST Software is now available for individual
users. A copy of the same can be requested from NICEE on payment of Rs.
2,000/-. This version of RESIST is customized to Indian codes and
construction conditions. However, a more recent update is available with
greatly enhanced graphical features but it is based upon New Zealand codes
and practices. It may be downloaded free of charge from the New Zealand
Society of Earthquake Engineering website at
https://www.nzsee.org.nz/library/other-publications/resist/ . For further details regarding the earlier version
please visit http://www.nicee.org/npeee/showpage.php?id=149 and for any
queries please contact: Suresh Ailawadi at Tele - 0512 – 259 7749, Fax – 0512
– 259 7794 or E-mail: asuresh@iitk.ac.in, nicee@iitk.ac.in 7. Members in News NICEE is proud to share that Prof
Mahesh Tandon, the member and the past Chairman of the National Advisory
Committee, has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Institution of Bridge Engineers in an award ceremony on 9 Feb 2024 in Mumbai
in recognition of his pathbreaking and pioneering work in bridge and metro
design and construction 8. 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024), June
30 – July 05, 2024 Milan, Italy Invitation and details of the 18th World
Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024) scheduled to be held in
Milan, Italy, scheduled to be held during June 30 to July 05, 2024 is
available at https://www.wcee2024.it/ 9. Newsletter of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI),
USA The latest EERI Newsletter ‘The Pulse’ is
available online at: https://www.eeri-members.org/pulse. The back issues can
be viewed at https://www.eeri.org/cohost/member-resources/pulse/archives
Following are selected contents of the Newsletter:
10. Recent Donors to NICEE Rs. 4,00,000/- and above M/s CSI-Engineering Software Pvt.
Ltd., New Delhi Rs. 4,000/- to Rs. 19,999/- Abhay Khandeshe, Pune Chinmoy Kolay, Kanpur Alok Tiwari, Indore Rs. 3,999/- and below Satish
Annigeri, Hubli J. Prakashvel,
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