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National Information Centre of
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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
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Newsletter:
June 2025 |
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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 Support to NICEE 7.
Recent Donors
to NICEE Details: 1. Workshop for Under Graduate
Architecture Students in Third Year The 18th National Workshop for
UG students of Architecture was held in a hybrid mode with online technical
lectures being distributed on 7th – 8th June 2025, and in-person studios
conducted during 16th – 20th June 2025, at IIT Kanpur. The workshop was
attended by 36 students who have completed six semesters of studies in their
respective architecture programs, from 9 institutes from all over India. During the workshop, the
students learnt architectural and structural aspects of earthquake-resistant
design and implemented it for a project on “Working Women’s Hostel on a site
in Srinagar, a city located in Kashmir Valley, Jammu & Kashmir Seismic
Zone V”. The studio sessions were a mix of desk work and informal lectures
where individual cases were used to illustrate earthquake engineering concepts. In online sessions, Dr. Hari
Kumar, Geo Hazards, New Delhi delivered a lecture covering the topics about
causes of earthquakes, basic terminology, earthquake ground motion, Prof. Atanu K Dutta of Jorhat Engineering College, Jorhat
discussed the factors affecting earthquake loads on buildings, Prof. Keya
Mitra IIEST, Shibpur, Howrah delivered lecture on
EQ resistant structural systems and building configuration and Prof. Vasudha
Gokhale of Dr. B.N. College of Architecture for Women, Pune, gave insight on
Buildings Add-Ons Faculty members who
participated as the resource persons included Prof. Vasudha Gokhale, Sujata
Mehta & Meera Shirolkar of Dr. B.N. College of Architecture for Women,
Pune; Prof. Bhavana Vimawala & Nehal Desai, Sarvajanik
University, Surat Dr. Ruchira Das Women’s
Polytechnic Chandernagore. The design prepared by the
participants was evaluated by a Jury panel comprised of Ar. Vikram Hundekar, Practicing Architect, Pune, Prof. Soumen Mitra,
IIEST, Shibpur, Howrah. The jury highly appreciated the
design assignment of the following participants. Team 1 Ms. Disha Laxman Pradhan, S.B.
Patil College of Architecture and Design, Pune Mr. Advait
Sawant, Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Mumbai Team 2 Ms. Aditya Barge, S.B. Patil
College of Architecture and Design, Pune Ms. Gouri Santosh Rawale, DY.
Patil University, Mumbai Team 3 Mr. Sumra Manav H, IDPT-SCET,
Surat Ms. Sneha S Ghuse, Sir J.J.
College of Architecture, Mumbai The workshop was sponsored by
CSIESPL, New Delhi, and several supporters of NICEE 2. Inter-School Quiz Competition based on
IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips 2025-26 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 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: 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. Recent Donors to NICEE Rs. 3,999/- and below N Saikarthik
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