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International
Workshop on ‘Seismic Evaluation and Strengthening
of Existing Structures’
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An
International workshop on ‘Seismic Evaluation and
Strengthening of Existing Structures’ (SESES -
2007) was organised at HIPA on 15-16 June 2007 in
collaboration with the National Institute of
Technology, Hamirpur. Prof.
Mahesh Tandon, a renowned structural engineer
inaugurated the workshop. Sh. S.S. Parmar, Chief
Secretary, HP and Dr. R.L. Chauhan, Chairman of BoG
of NIT Hamirpur
joined as Guests of Honour
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The workshop was
attended by nearly 100 practicing engineers,
architects and administrators both from public and
private sector besides faculty members from various
engineering colleges/institutions and
representatives of NGOs from throughout the country.
Engineers from the H.P. Public Works department,
Irrigation and Public Health department, Urban
Development Authority, HP State Electricity Board,
Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam, Border Roads Organization
and may other agencies were represented in large
numbers.
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Eminent
Resource persons from Universities in
Canada
,
Greece
,
Taiwan
and
New Zealand
besides eminent members of faculty from IIT Madras,
IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee and various National
Institutes of Technology made presentations and
interacted with the participants in this workshop.
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This
workshop was planned to disseminate the latest about
seismic evaluation of existing structures of various
types and retrofitting thereof to make such
structures safe from earthquake and other similar
natural hazards.
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The
topics covered in the workshop included recognition
of structural earthquake safety for its
implementation at national and international level, Capacity
building for Seismic Disaster Mitigation through
evaluation and retrofitting of existing structures
and Sharing latest approaches and methods for
seismic evaluation and retrofit with the field
engineers, researchers and scientists.
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The
workshop was jointly organized by the National
Institute of Technology, Hamirpur and the H.P.
Institute of Public Administration, Fairlawns,
Shimla. While the technical aspects of the Workshop
were all looked after by the NIT the arrangements
for hosting the workshop were all made by HIPA at
its campus at Fairlawns, Shimla.
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