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Newsletter: September
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NICEE Activities 1.
National
Advisory Committee Meeting of NICEE 2.
Workshop
for Under Graduate Architecture Students in Third Year 3. Inter-School Quiz Competition on IITK-BMTPC
Earthquake Tips 2024-25 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 9.
Members in News Excerpts from other Newsletters 10.
Newsletter of
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), USA Support to NICEE 11.
Recent Donors
to NICEE Details: 1. National Advisory Committee Meeting of
NICEE The National Advisory Committee Meeting of NICEE was
held online, on May 24, 2024, and attended by eighteen esteemed members. The
minutes of the meeting have been uploaded on the NICEE website and can be
accessed through the following link:
https://nicee.org/Meeting/Sixteenth_Report.pdf 2. Workshop for Under Graduate
Architecture Students in Third Year The dates of the workshop for Architecture students
scheduled to be held at IIT Kanpur will be announced shortly. 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. 3. 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 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. 5 has been uploaded on the website. 9. 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 "CE & CR Lifetime Achievement Award"
from the Institution of Civil Engineering & Construction Review in an
award ceremony on 2nd August 2024 in New Delhi in recognition of his
pathbreaking and pioneering work in Structural Engineering. 10. 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:
11. Recent Donors to
NICEE Rs.
4,000/- to Rs. 19,999/- Addepalli Venkata Bhaskara Rao, Ongole |
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