Participants

A five-day skill development-training programme for Engineers of Uttarakhand on “Multi-Hazard Resistant Housing and Habitat” was conducted under the aegis of the CSIR Integrated Skill Initiative with the financial support of Department of Disaster Management & Rehabilitation, Government of Uttarakhand during 16-20 December 2019 at CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee. The course aimed at enhancing knowledge and skills on planning and designing, construction techniques, quality control and construction of buildings to mitigate the risk in existing buildings by the field level machineries. 

Dr N. Gopalakrishnan, Director, CSIR-CBRI, Roorkee, inaugurated the course and informed that disasters strike at different scales in every season and every corner of the world and cannot be predicted. It is important to put time into planning and preparation long before the disaster risks. He also said that this could be achieved by enhancing the knowledge and skills of the implementing authorities through providing training/demonstration/skill developmental activities to the field level functionaries. Dr R. Dharmaraju, Senior Principal Scientist & Course Coordinator, welcomed the gathering and briefed about the programme.

During the course, technical inputs and field demonstrations were given to the participants to understand the latest technologies on different aspects of multi-hazard resistant construction practice. Participants visited the various laboratories to acquire practical/field aspects of construction systems. Forty-seven engineers attended the course from different departments of Uttarakhand Government. The session concluded with the distribution of certificates to the participants.