Buildings needs proper care and health monitoring. Aspects of earthquake safety comes later

Our construction practices are taken care of by those field people who, by their designated NAME and existence, have to run the from pillar to post to  other white colored creatures occupying power and posts, with all possible means for appeasement or managerial skills not tuned enough to the requirements of earthquake safety...but finally built up facilities come up sometimes by the weekend or in the night time....at the cost of quality in building materials and supervisory roles...for which no one else but we engineers can ensure simply following up of the Building codes that's existent in our country since 1962...

What kind of earthquake shaking such buildings will be ready to consume or be able to fight in equal terms, is a question, need not require any prepared answers from the building experts. Public in general, are able to understand the fate of such constructions, which if subjected to intensity V or VI shaking, will be unfit for repairing and so there is going to be complete loss of property, keeping aside the fate of life, for which the almighty may be knowing more than any qualified building professional!

Multi storey Buildings coming up without any gap in between to accommodate "pounding" effect, are the modern trend in real estate developments. For such cases, a gap of 2% (rather 4% between two buildings) of the building height is usually recommended.

Waste cleaning-building construction and load tests on piles-Metro rail

Wastes generated from City life - letting them to meet the river without due care!

To what extent sewerage are treated to reach this point (near Pragati Maidan Metro station) is not difficult to realise. We may have passed or audited YAP-I & II, till last year with huge consumption of budgets and now YAP phase-III would catch the attention of many. Such flow (both money and waste) needs an auditing.

....Before we check again text books in environmental (civil) engg on matters related to sewerage treatments, a simple separation of the dirt, suspended materials by Geotextiles (available in Market) could save us from such a obnoxious flow/dirt to the River Yamuna....

Buildings needs proper care and health monitoring

Our construction practices are taken care of by those field people who, by their designated NAME and existence, have to run the from pillar to post to  other white colored creatures occupying power and posts, with all possible means for appeasement...but finally built up facilities come up sometimes by the weekend or in the night time....at the cost of quality in building materials and supervisory roles...for which no one else but we engineers can ensure simply following up of the Building codes that's existent in our country since 1962...

Load tests - on Metro pillar, old way but have we learnt anything more by now?

It is learnt that several (6-10 no.) piles (>1m dia) upto or beyond 30m depth are usually inserted into the ground to host one pillar at 20-25m span. How much of the ground engineering are applicable in such situation is really perturbing, in this age of Geotechnical Engineering development pursuits since 1925. To what extent Indian Codes on earthquake Engg. is applicable to such robust foundation design - whether earthquakes of local or distant origin, can anyway satisfy seismological issues (atleast to avoid Resonance, knowing that spectral acceleration will be different), so colorfully explained in recent Delhi Microzonation Studies (NCS, 2015)???

Nature vs. disaster

Nature vs. Disaster

by

Prof. Chandan Ghosh, NIDM

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At the dawn of our civilization

Nature was the universal protector

We learned first the technique of catching

 Fire to cook our food for survival

Simply living with the Nature

Showering obeisance for the chance

Given to mankind to procreate

Helped us realizing our meaningful status 

As we grew in numbers and started

Looking for shelter at the Nature’s bounty

The challenges of living at par with seasonal

Changes drove us devising tools for living cosy

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Disasters are no more Nature-made

They are the offshoots of our fast moving

Life style rushing to have more at our cap

Deleting the footprints of natural ambiance

As long as our development perspectives

Scale new dimensions in terms of buildings

Occupying horizontal and vertical spaces

Let’s reap energy as much as from the Nature

Let’s realise to stand against those

Deviations  among unassuming dynamics

Disturbing eco-systems and environment

Making everything on sustainable development

Let each region embrace the world order

Suitable to the local flora-fauna

Refurbishing all that we are taking

Making everything as close to the Nature

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