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Newsletter: January
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 2025-26 This edition of the
Inter-School Quiz on IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips holds special significance as
it commemorates the 25th anniversary of the 2001 Bhuj (Gujarat) earthquake.
To mark this day, the National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering
(NICEE) has conducted two major events: the EQ tips quiz and a dedicated
speech contest. - The Earthquake
Tips Quiz The quiz was conducted in both
physical and virtual formats to encourage widespread participation. The final
round of the quiz consisted of four rounds, namely Round Robin, Picture
Round, Rapid Fire Round, and Lucky Number Round. A total of eight schools
participated on January 26, 2026, at the Outreach Auditorium, IIT Kanpur: KD
Ambani Reliance Foundation School, Jamnagar; DAV Public School, Ludhiana; Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Prism School, Satna; Gwalior
Glory High School, Gwalior; Indraprastha International School, New Delhi;
Nehru World School, Ghaziabad; Blue Bells Model School, Gurugram; and Sheiling House School, Kanpur. The team from Gwalior Glory
High School, Gwalior, secured the first position, followed by KD Ambani
Reliance Foundation School, Jamnagar, in second place and Blue Bells Model
School, Gurugram, in third place. - NICEE-CSI Student
Speech Contest In addition to the
quiz, NICEE conducted "NICEE-CSI Student Speech Contest: Advocating
for Seismic Safety". A total of 25 students participated in the
contest, delivering 3-minute speeches highlighting the importance of
earthquake safety and preparedness. The contest aimed to encourage students
to think critically, speak confidently, and spread awareness on seismic
safety, thereby contributing to the vision of a safer and more resilient
society. The speeches were evaluated by a jury panel comprising ten members,
including post-doctoral, doctoral, and master’s students specializing in
earthquake engineering at IIT Kanpur. In the Speech Contest, Mr. Angad Singh Bakshi and Ms. Harshita Hora from DAV Public School, BRS
Nagar, Ludhiana, secured the first position, while Mr. Virat Handa from Sheiling House School, Kanpur, and Mr. Trinabh Gaite from Blue Bells
Model School, Gurugram, secured the second and third positions, respectively. For further 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/- Durgesh C. Rai, Kanpur |
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