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Newsletter:
February 2026 |
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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 2025-26 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 Excerpts from other Newsletters 7.
Newsletter of
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), USA Support to NICEE 8.
Recent Donors
to NICEE Details: 1. Workshop for Under Graduate
Architecture Students in Third Year A workshop for Architecture students is scheduled to be
held at IIT Kanpur during June 01 - 07, 2026. 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: Prof. Durgesh C Rai at Tele - 0512 – 259 7866,
Email: nicee@iitk.ac.in. 2. Inter-School Quiz Competition based on
IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips 2026-27 The schedule for Inter-School
Quiz for 2026-27 will be announced shortly. For more details please visit
http://www.nicee.org/Quiz/quiz.htm. Schools willing to participate in the
preliminary round of the quiz for the year 2026-27 may please contact: Prof.
Durgesh C Rai at Tele - 0512 – 259 7866, Email: nicee@iitk.ac.in. 3. Literature Review Workshop for
Post-Graduate Students The details of Annual Workshop for post graduate students pursuing
their masters or doctorate degree with thesis in earthquake engineering will
be promulgated shortly. 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: Prof. Durgesh C Rai at Tele - 0512 – 259 7866, Email:
nicee@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 15,470 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: Prof. Durgesh C Rai at Tele - 0512 – 259 7866, Email:
nicee@iitk.ac.in. 7. 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:
8. Recent Donors to NICEE Rs.
20,000/- to 99,999/- Sudhir K. Jain, Ghaziabad |
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