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Newsletter: January
2025 |
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NICEE Activities 1. Workshop for Architectural Faculty
Members 2. Inter-School Quiz Competition on IITK-BMTPC
Earthquake Tips 2024-25 3. Workshop for Under Graduate Architecture
Students in Third Year 4.
Literature Review
Workshop for Post-Graduate Students 5.
Open House of NICEE 6.
Intimation
Regarding Change of Postal Address/ Email ID 7.
RESIST Software
Available for Individual Users 8.
Oriya Translation
of Earthquake Tips 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 Architectural Faculty
Members A workshop
for Architectural Faculty Members will be conducted at IIT Kanpur from March
8 to 10, 2025. This workshop aims to enhance the capacity of architecture
design faculty members to effectively integrate the teaching of
earthquake-resistant strategies in design studios for undergraduate students.
For further information regarding the workshop, please visit
https://www.nicee.org/Faculty_Workshop/ion will open soon). For
additional details or any queries, please contact Suresh Ailawadi at Tele -
0512 259 7749 or Email: asuresh@iitk.ac.in. 2. Inter-School Quiz Competition based on
IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips 2024-25 The
final round of the quiz was held at IIT Kanpur on January 20, 2025. In the
final round of the quiz seven schools - Delhi Public School, Agra; Sheiling House School, Kanpur; Birla Vidya Niketan, New
Delhi; Blue Bells Model School, Gurugram; Nehru World School, Ghaziabad;
Gwalior Glory High School, Gwalior; and Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan's Prism School,
Satna participated. The
quiz had four rounds viz. Round Robin, Picture Round, Rapid Fire Round and
Lucky number Round. The team from Gwalior Glory High School, Gwalior,
represented by Deeksha Manjhi,
Sajal Chaturvedhi, Hardik
Bansal and Sanvi Sepat secured first position scoring 113 points. Bhartiya
Vidya Bhavan's Prism School, Satna and Sheiling
House School, Kanpur came second and third, respectively, scoring 102 points
and 93 points. 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, Fax 0512 259 7794 or E-mail: asuresh@iitk.ac.in 3. Workshop for Under Graduate
Architecture Students in Third Year The workshop for Architecture students is scheduled
to be held at IIT Kanpur during June 16-20, 2025. 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, or Email: asuresh@iitk.ac.in. 4. 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. 5. 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 6. 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. 7. 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 8. Oriya Translation of Earthquake Tips The Oriya
Translation of Earthquake Tip No. 8 has been uploaded on the website. 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. 20,000/- to 99,999/- Durgesh C. Rai, Kanpur |
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