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of Earthquake Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

NICEE Seminar on Earthquake Protection of Buildings

A Seminar on Earthquake Protection of Buildings was conducted during
September 02-03, 2011 at IIIT Hyderabad by Prof. CVR Murty and Prof. R.
Pradeep Kumar, which was attended by 45 participants, majority of them
being practicing engineers.
The aim of the workshop was to update
the participants with the current methods of
design and construction, ensuring earthquakeresistant buildings. The conduct of the seminar
was sponsored by M/s Nagarjuna Construction
Company (NCC), Hyderabad.
For details regarding the seminar please visit
[Link]
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Reconnaissance Report Sikkim Earthquake

The M6.9 earthquake hit Sikkim on 18th September 2011. The earthquake
caused widespread damage and destruction in Sikkim with about 100 deaths
reported in India with Sikkim bearing the maximum brunt of at least 60
deaths. A team of IIT Kanpur (Durgesh Rai, Goutam Mondal, Vaibhav Singhal,
Neha Parool and Tripti Pradhan) visited the earthquake-affected areas during
Sept 28 - Oct 6 and later briefed the local community and media about their
observations on performance of built-environment and lessons that can be
learned to mitigate the seismic risk in the region. Relevant NICEE publications
such as Earthquake Tips, Confined Masonry Construction, etc., were given
free of cost to officials and local populace at Sikkim. For further details please
visit [Link]

From the Coordinator

The year 2011-2012 unfolded new
challenges for NICEE. During the
year we published the revised edition
of Confined Masonry A guidebook for
technicians and artisans by Ar. Tom
Schacher. A project has been initiated
to translate this monograph into local
vernaculars. The publication on
Seismic Isolation and Earthquake Tips
(English version) were reprinted.
Other regular activities like Inter
School Quiz on Earthquake Tips for
school children and workshops for
Architecture & Civil Engineering
students continued during the year. A
team from IIT Kanpur visited the
areas
devastated
by
Sikkim
Earthquake.
NICEE continued to
receive good support from its wellwishers during the year. This Annual
Report highlights some of our major
initiatives during this concluded year.
We welcome your suggestions and
feedback at nicee@[Link] .

Institutional Members
NICEE thanks its Institutional
members and acknowledges their
continued support to NICEE.

Increase in the NICEE website access

recorded after the earthquake.

Publications during 2011- 12

NICEE publications revised
and reprinted during the
year.
List of NICEE publications and products: [Link]/[Link]

PLATINUM SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS

Computers & Structures Inc.,
Berkeley, USA
GOLD SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS
Tandon Consultants Pvt Ltd, New Delhi

SILVER SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS

Bhagalpur College of Engineering,
Bhagalpur
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai

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Inter School Quiz on Earthquake Tips
NICEE conducted an Inter School Quiz competition on IITK- BMTPC Earthquake Tips, the final round of which was
held on 07 February 2012 at Outreach Auditorium, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur.
Seventy schools participated in the preliminary rounds which were held in Kanpur, Delhi, Lucknow, Ambala,
Chandigrah, Indore, Nagpur, Shimla, Jabalpur, Pune, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. The winners of preliminary rounds
were: Bhavans B.P. Vidya Mandir, Nagpur, Christ Church Girls Senior Secondary School, Jabalpur, City Montessori
School, Station Road Branch, Lucknow, City Pride School, Pune, Dayanand Public School, Shimla, Green Fields
School, Safdurjung Enclave, New Delhi, ITL Public School, Dwarka, New Delhi, Mount Carmel School, Chandigarh,
Mukand Lal Public School, Yamuna Nagar, Pawar Public School, Mumbai, Rishi Public School, Gurgaon, Sainik
School, Rewa, Sandraben Shroff Gnyandham School, Vapi and Dr. Virendra Swaroop Education Centre, Avadhpuri,
Kanpur. These schools participated in the finals held on 07 February 2012 at IIT Kanpur.
The quiz had four rounds: Round Robin, Picture Round, Rapid Fire Round
and Lucky Number Round. The questions were mostly from the publication
IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips by Prof. CVR Murty and some questions were
based on the past earthquakes in India and in other countries. The winning
team of the finals with 80 points was Mukand Lal Public School, Yamuna
Nagar represented by Ms. Anukriti Agnihotry, Ms. Shruti Sajwan, Mr.
Abhinandan Shukla and Mr. Naman Arora. The team from Christ Church
Girls Senior Secondary School, Jabalpur secured the second position scoring
Winners of Final Quiz - Mukand Lal 73 points while the team from Bhavans B.P. Vidya Mandir, Nagpur scored
Public School, Yamuna Nagar
67 points to bag the third position. The quiz was supported by BMTPC, New
represented by Anukriti, Shruti,
Delhi and the Poonam and Prabhu Goel Foundation, IIT Kanpur. The
Abhinandan and Naman.
preliminary round of the quiz at Delhi, Ambala, Chandigarh and Shimla was conducted by GeoHazards, New Delhi;
whilst at Indore, Nagpur and Pune was conducted by Prof. Rakesh Khare, Prof. OR Jaiswal and Mr. Narayan Y.
Kochak, respectively. NICEE takes pride in the efforts put in by them and their support teams, and acknowledges
with gratitude their unstinted support to NICEE activities. The school quiz has now become an important annual
event of NICEE. It will be our endeavour to include more and more cities from the neighboring areas during the
forthcoming years. For further details and the procedure for participating in the quiz please visit
[Link]

Workshop for Architecture Students

The fourth workshop on Earthquake Resistant Practices for Undergraduate Students of Architecture was conducted
at IIT Kanpur during July 04 09, 2011. The workshop was attended by 58 students from 17 colleges representing
16 cities of India. The aim was to sensitize the students of architecture in earthquake resistant design practices
through technical lectures followed by design studios where they were given guidance in earthquake resistant
design by working on an architectural design project. The resource persons included Dr. Keya Mitra of Bengal
Engineering & Science
University, Shibpur; Dr. Mahua Mukherjee of IIT Roorkee, Roorkee; Dr. Vasudha
Gokhale and Prof. Meera Shirolkar of Dr. B. N. College of Architecture for Women,
Pune; Dr. Koustubh Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Dr. Atanu
Dutta of Jorhat Engineering College, Jorhat and Ar. Sushmita De, Senior Architect,
SPACESCAPES Kolkata. The final designs were evaluated by a Jury Board consisting of
Prof. Mahesh Tandon, CMD, Tandon Consultants & Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi; Dr. AK Mittal,
Retired Structural Engineer from CPWD; Ar. Balbir Varma, Former President IIA and
Practicing Architect New Delhi; and Prof. Amit Bose, DDF Consultants, New Delhi. The workshop was sponsored
by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi; Computers and Structures Inc, Berkeley, U.S.A, and the
Poonam and Prabhu Goel Foundation, IIT Kanpur. For more information please visit:
[Link]

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PG Literature Review
Workshop
This Annual Workshop was
conducted at IIT Kanpur during
July 07 16, 2011. Eighty two
Postgraduate students from 19
colleges across India participated in
this.
The
participants
were
encouraged to make use of
available literature at NICEE library
and the Central Library of IIT
Kanpur for doing quality research
work. They were also provided
access to internet for downloading
the research materials.
The sponsors of the workshop were
Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research, New Delhi; Computers
and Structures, Inc and the Poonam
and Prabhu Goel Foundation at IIT
Kanpur.
For more information please visit:
[Link]
rkshop

Translations into Local

Languages

Aggressive Dissemination of Literature

During the year, 6,500 copies of books, monographs, CDs, and journal
issues were distributed. Till date, NICEE has distributed 95,700 such items.

Earthquake Engineering Practice

The quarterly periodical Earthquake Engineering Practice
continues to gain popularity. Its subscription list as of
March 2012 stands at 3,168 from 66 countries. The
periodical is being financially supported by the Computers
& Structures Inc. (CSI), Earthquake Engineering Research
Institute (EERI), Poonam and Prabhu Goel Foundation at
IIT Kanpur, and the numerous other donors of NICEE.
The annual expenditure on the periodical is to the tune of ` 16.0 lakhs. To
make it self-sustaining we invite advertisements/ sponsorships from the
corporate sector.

NICEE Financials
Funding of Expenses 2011-12

The translation of Earthquake Tips

and monograph by Ar. Tom
Schacher into local languages is also
in
progress
by
enthusiastic
supporters of NICEE, voluntarily.

Institutional Membership
You may like to enthuse your
organisation to take up institutional
membership of NICEE. For details:
[Link]
[Link]?id=18
PLATINUM SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS
(` 4 lakh/year and up ~ US$ 10,000
per year)
GOLD SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS
(` 1 lakh/year and up ~ US$ 2,500
per year)
SILVER SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS
(` 25 thousand/year and up ~ US$
550 per year)

With a healthy growth of NICEE activities, the overall expenditure during

the year stood at about ` 37.11 lakhs (` 32.92 lakhs last year). This was
covered by a healthy mix of resources from various sources: 21% from
sales and fees, 13% from sponsorships, 33% from Endowment and 33%
from the Poonam and Prabhu Goel Foundation at IIT Kanpur.
The sale proceeds from publications and monographs were ` 7.91 lakhs as
compared to ` 8.3 lakhs last year. The number of donors this year were 94
(83 last year) contributing a total of ` 8.86 lakhs with an average donation
of ` 9,423/- (` 3.8 lakh last year with average of ` 4,570/-). Since inception,
NICEE has received one or more donations from a total of 486 donors with
an overall median of ` 2,500: this is a great endorsement of NICEEs
activities by its friends and well wishers.

N. Y. Kochak, Pune,MH
Abhay Shriram Kulkarni,
Nagpur, MH
Hari Kumar, New Delhi, DL
B. B. Ladge, Kolhapur, MH
Atop Lego, Itanagar, AR
Keya Mitra, Howrah, WB
Mahua Mukherjee, Roorkee, UK
Bhabhananda Nath, Jamnagar, GJ
V. V. Nori, Mumbai, MH
Prasad Panandikar, Margao, GA
Anand Panpate, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Durgesh C. Rai, Kanpur, UP

H.C. Salaria, Ludhiana, PB
Chaitanya Sanghvi, Ahmedabad, GJ
V.M. Shanthi, Coimbatore, TN
M.K. Shrimali, Jaipur, RJ
Balkrishna B. Soneji,
Ahmedabad, GJ
G. Srinivasan, Coimbatore, TN
Atul S. Thakor, Vadodra, GJ
Jagdish Kumar Varma, Jaipur, RJ
T. Viswanathan, New Delhi, DL

Rajul K. Gajjar, Ahmedabad, GJ

N. Gopalakrishnan, Chennai, TN
Dipti Goswami, Itanagar, AR
Tarh Hachey, Itanagar, AR
Likha Hina, Itanagar, AR
George Joseph, Itanagar, AR
Ran Kana Kacha, Itanagar, AR
Nabam Kai, Itanagar, AR
Kipa Korah, Itanagar, AR
Rakesh Kumar S., Bangalore, KA
R. D. Lewi, Itanagar, AR
Gaurav Maroo, Noida, UP
Tadak Mosu, Itanagar, AR
M. L. Narasimhulu, Kurnool, AP
Amresh S. Patil, Gulbarga, KA
P.B. Ponung, Itanagar, AR
Marcony Potom, Itanagar, AR
Riya Powak, Itanagar, AR
Akshay Kumar Sahoo,
Bhubaneswar, OR

Tai Sangkio, Itanagar, AR

M. V. V. Satyanarayana,
Hyderabad, AP
Premanand Shenoy, Mangalore, KA
Hare Ram Singh, Itanagar, AR
V.P. Singh, Itanagar, AR
Sonkoli Sonam, Itanagar, AR
N. Subramanian, Chennai, TN
B. L. Swami, Jaipur, RJ
Taban Tabing, Itanagar, AR
Nabam Takek, Itanagar, AR
Talen Taki, Itanagar, AR
Techi Tapum, Itanagar, AR
D. K. Thungon, Itanagar, AR
Pema Khandu Thungon, Itanagar, AR
Alok Tiwari, Indore, MP
Haring Camder Tok, Itangar, AR
Mukesh Chandra Upadhyay,
New Delhi, DL
Sandeep Kumar Verma, Indore, MP
Hate Welly, Itanagar, AR

Up to ` 3,999/Swati Structure Solution (P) Ltd.,

New Delhi, DL
Achintya, Bhagalpur, BR
Vijay Agrawal, Jaipur, RJ
Bamang Amar, Itanagar, AR
Olom Apang, Itanagar, AR
Saikat Bagachi, Kolkata, WB
K. Z. Bagra, Itanagar, AR
Mojum Bam, Itanagar, AR
Tai Bapu, Itanagar, AR
Jumkar Basar, Itanagar, AR
Altaf Batliwala, Mumbai, MH
Giluk Belo, Itanagar, AR
Atul Chandra Boruah,
Guwahati, AS
Taring Darang, Itanagar, AR
Debasis Dasgupta, Jalpaiguri, WB
Arnab Dutta, Bikaner, RJ
Tadar Dokio, Itanagar, AR
Himar Ete, Itanagar, AR
K. C. Francis, Kochi, KL

For more information, please contact

Prof. Durgesh C. Rai
Coordinator, NICEE
Department of Civil Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur 208016, India
Web: [Link] E-mail: nicee@[Link]
Phone: +91 (512) 259 7866 Fax: +91 (512) 259 7794

NICEE Team
Cdr Suresh Ailawadi, Retd.
Ms. Anamika Dikshit
Ms. Seema Kushwaha
Mr. Pawan Srivastava
Mr. Moti Lal
Mr. Malikhan Singh

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Ascent Consulting Engineers,

Mumbai, MH
Chandramouli, Bangalore, KA
Anil Agarwal, Kanpur , UP
John G. Anderson, NV, USA
S. H. Babu, Secunderabad, AP
Svetlana N. Brzev, BC, Canada
Deepak B. Dave, Mumbai, MH
Sudhir K. Jain, Ahmedabad, GJ
Sandeep Joshi, Indore, MP
Vikrant Joshi, TX, USA
K. Subramanya Karanth,
Bangalore, KA

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` 4,000/- to ` 19,999/-

Tandon Consultants Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, DL

Arun Kumar Jha, Patna, BR

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Kishan Lal Pawan Kumar Jain, Kanpur, UP

Shirish Patel & Associates Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, MH

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` 20,000/- to ` 99,999/-

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