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This year’s workshop
Earthquake Resistant Practices for Students of Architecture is
scheduled to be held at IIT Kanpur during July 02 – 07, 2012. The
objective of this Workshop is to sensitize students of architecture in
earthquake resistant design practices through technical lectures
followed by design studios where they will be given hands-on guidance in
earthquake resistant design by working on an architectural design
project.
Architects, as initiators of projects, coordinate the team of professionals responsible for the
building delivery process. At this juncture, there is an urgent need to
reach out to tomorrow’s architects through sensitization in seismic
safety issues to better prepare them for their professional roles. To
spearhead this agenda, NICEE was associated with the NASA 2007
Convention held at MANIT Bhopal in December 2007, at the SAARCH
Convention 2008 held in New Delhi in March 2008, and more recently at
the SAARC NASA Convention in Pune.
The upcoming Workshop is
targeted at students of architecture who are presently in the
third
year of the architecture course, that is, they are in the sixth
semester of the 10 semester degree programme in architecture. The
selected students will spend one week at IIT Kanpur and undergo hands on
training in Earthquake Resistant Architecture Practices through a series
of lectures and design studios to be coordinated by professionals with
wide experience in this field. For further details please see the invitation letter attached.
We
invite you to nominate upto four students from your college/institute to
participate in this workshop. In view of the hands on nature of this
workshop, we have to restrict the number of participants. Hence,
depending on the number of applications received, we will select some of
these students. We look forward to working with the students and
preparing them in earthquake resistant design as a significant step in
ensuring safety for the vulnerable communities in our country. The nomination form should reach us by 30th March 2012.
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