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1 February 2017

FROM THE

PRESIDENT'S DESK Dear Members, The month of February has been eventful. We had an excellent Seminar jointly organized with the Institution of Engineers, in Jaipur, which also served as an Outreach to several of our Consultant colleagues based there. The well attended event was sponsored by CEG. A week later, we had the much awaited Annual Awards function for young engineers in Delhi. Mr R K Mathur, Chief Information Commissioner was the Chief Guest and gave away the Awards. As we near the end of the financial year FY17, it is time to take stock of our achievements and plan for the way forward - to create more opportunities and contribute to the training and knowledge enhancement of the fraternity - to be able to collaborate and compete with the best. Chairpersons of the various Committees have selected their respective teams and are planning for a slew of events. The Publications Committee has decided to have theme based issues for our quarterly Journal ‘VIEW POINT’, based on the expertise available amongst member firms and invitee authors. For the March 2017 issue, the theme will be ‘Water and Sustainability’. The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Development Corporation (DMICDC) and PIANC have lent their support to the Seminar planned on ‘Ports and Industrial Corridors’. We have also got the consent of some eminent experts to speak at the event. The consulting fraternity can again look forward to CEAI Annual Awards 2017. This time it will be for Consulting Engineering organisations, both small and big.

S Philip

February 2017

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Seminar on Aspects of Consulting Profession in Architectural & Civil Engineering Young Engineers Award Ceremony Seminar on Ports and Industrial Corridors, 07 April 2017 FIDIC Training Programme -Postponed ________________________________ CEAI Outreach ________________________________

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SEMINAR ON “ASPECTS OF CONSULTING PROFESSION IN ARCHITECTURAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING“

A one-day seminar was organised by Institution of Engineers India (IEI) and Consulting Engineers Association of India (CEAI) under the aegis of ARDB of IEI. The seminar was sponsored by CEG Ltd., Jaipur on 11th February 2017 at CEG Tower, Malviya Nagar Industrial area, Jaipur.

Dignitaries on Dais

The Chief Guest at the Seminar was Shri D B Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Rajasthan. The seminar was presided over by Ms Sayona Philip, President CEAI. Totally, 64 participants attended the Seminar. Among the participants were Consultants of Rajasthan, Members and officials of IEI and executives of CEAI.

After arrival of the Chief Guest, a floral welcome was done followed by Ganesh Vandana.

Lighting of Lamp by Mr. D.B. Gupta, Chief Guest

Mr H K Mittal, Chairman ARDB, IEI, welcomed the Guests and Participants. Mr. Vishwas Jain, Chairman-North Regional Centre of CEAI, in his address explained the purpose of the Seminar. He informed the participants that since long there are issues raised by the architectural fraternity about the consultancy done by civil engineering consultants. This seminar is in effort to discuss the various issues involved and resolve them at the earliest possible. Mr R P Gupta, former President, IEI, in his address apprised the audience that IEI is largest professional body, encompassing 15 engineering disciplines and gives engineers a global platform where the engineers can share their professional interest. Mr. Sudhir Dhawan, former President of CEAI, gave a brief background about the formation of CEAI. He mentioned that CEAI is the only member association in India represented at the International Federation of Consulting Engineers. He urged all the present consultants to become the members of CEAI .

Mr. Sudhir Dhawan, Past President CEAI addressing A presentation was given by Mr L D Gupta, Director CEAI, on the aims and objectives of the CEAI and the

procedure to become a member of CEAI.

Mr. L D Gupta informed the gathering about various categories of membership. He explained the benefits of

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CEAI and urged all present to become the member of CEAI. He said CEAI is for YOU. Ms Sayona Philip, President, CEAI, at the outset thanked Shri Vishwas Jain, MD, CEG Ltd., for taking the initiative to organise the seminar for the first time in northern region. She requested the participants to unite to strengthen the association for the welfare of its members. She further informed that CEAI has established linkages and plans to enhance cooperation with its counterparts in other Asian countries.

Ms S Philip, President CEAI addressing

Mr D B Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary, Govt of Rajasthan, spoke about the important role of civil engineers , particularly in the mega infrastructure projects in the country. He was of the view that a good consultant can deliver a project with quality, on time and utilising the expenditure optimally.

During the post lunch session, 4 technical papers were presented: 1. Mr. Pramod Adlakha gave a presentation on his

topic on “Consultation Opportunities At What Cost”. Mr Adlakha shared his views that past few decades,

consultancy was a profession but presently it is treated as business. Consultants use to quote around 10% for consultancy but now to win the project, consultants quote as low as 1 % as consultancy fees. He mentioned that consultants themselves are responsible for devaluing their services.

2. Mr. Sitaram Agarwal, Member, CEAI, gave his presentation on “An Update for Requirements and Resources”. Mr. Sitaram Agarwal mentioned that Consultancy in Architectural and Civil Engineering are based on imagination and fact. The Architect and Engineer have to understand the Project requirements and meet the aspirations of Client with updated requirements and resources.

3. Mr. Yash Mittal, a young entrepreneur gave his presentation on “Consulting Profession and Approach for Fire and Life Safety in Health Care Buildings”. Mr. Mittal presented detailed plan of a hospital building explaining how Fire safety in Health Care Buildings can be ensured by bifurcating the areas to discontinue the fire line and prevent spreading of the fire to the other parts of the building.

4. Dr Dinesh Poswal, presented his paper on “Constructed Wetlands for Waste Water Treatment, A Sustainable Product”. Dr Poswal described the technology as low cost, simple in operation, recycle and reuse oriented. A research station has been established at IIT Bombay, funded by the European Commission. He said that the technology had the potential to convert an ugly wastewater canal into a beautiful garden. The treated wastewater can be used for Irrigation, and for rejuvenation of water bodies.

At the end, all present expressed the view that the Seminar was very useful for the Consulting fraternity.

CEAI NATIONAL AWARDS FOR YOUNG ENGINEERS 2016 – AWARD CEREMONY AND CELEBRATION OF WOMEN ENGINEERS DAY

CEAI designated the year 2016 as ‘Young Engineers Year’ and instituted the following categories of awards for Young Engineers. (i) Innovation in Design Engineering (ii) Innovation in Project Engineering (iii) Sherpa Award

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A Jury headed by Dr Sudhir Krishna, Former Secretary, MoUD, Govt of India, selected successful candidates for the above awards. The Awards ceremony was held on 17 February 2017 at Raunaq Hall of PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry, New Delhi. Following were the winners:

(i) Innovation in Design Engineering

a) Mr. Jigesh N Bhavsar of ICT Pvt Ltd

Mr Jigesh N Bhavsar of ICT received the award for

Innovation in Design Engineering.

b) Ms. Vedika Agrawal of STEAG Energy Services (India) Pvt Ltd

Ms Vedika Agrawal of STEAG Energy Services (India) Pvt Ltd also receives award for Innovation in Design Engineering

(ii) Innovation in Project Engineering

a) Mr. Manoj Kumar Murlidharan of Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd

Award for Innovation in Project Engineering to Mr Manoj Kumar Murlidharan of Tata Consulting Engineers was received by Mr Kanwar Singh due to his non arrival from South Africa.

(ii) Sherpa Award

a) Mr. Jitendra Kumar Singh of Tata Consulting

Engineers

Mr Jitendra Kumar Singh of Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd

receives Sherpa Award

The Awards were given to the winners by Chief Guest, Mr R K Mathur, Chief Information Commissioner and Former Secretary Ministry of Defence and Ministry of MSME. He is also an alumnus of IIT Kanpur. While

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handing over the silver shield and certificates to the winners, he complimented them for continuing their careers in hard core engineering instead of moving to other lucrative options. He also appreciated CEAI for taking such initiatives for the development of Young Engineers in India.

Before the award ceremony, a Panel Discussion was held on the topic ‘Need to use advanced technologies/ tools in Engineering’.

Panel Discussion in progress

Mr Sudhir Dhawan, Former President, CEAI moderated the Panel Discussion and Mr S C Mehrotra, Mr Abhishek Soni, Mr Swapnil Joshi and Mr Rahul Narayan presented their perspective on the topic. Mr S C Mehrotra, MD, Mehro Consultants spoke on the use of latest technologies for Fast Track construction of tall Buildings. Mr Abhishek Soni, a bright young engineer from TCE delivered a talk on real time simulation of construction with integration of services for fast track delivery and better prediction of site errors. Mr Rahul Narayan shared an exciting presentation of the process that his Team Indus underwent to build the first ever private spacecraft to the moon, gearing up for launch in Dec 2017 ! Mr Swapnil Joshi, Founder Intento, shared his experiences in how effective project planning and monitoring, using tools like primavera can save time, huge manhours and material costs.

At the outset, Ms Sayona Philip, President CEAI welcomed all the winners and participants to the Award Ceremony for Young Engineers.

A view of participants

Mr Sudhir Dhawan explained about the concept and procedure of selection of awardees and the intention of CEAI for institution of the award to honour and to promote the talent of young engineers in India.

CEAI celebrates Women Engineers Day on 18th February every year. As a part of Women Engineers Day, Prof Geetam Tiwari, Professor of IIT Delhi delivered a talk on Transportation during the award ceremony in honour of Women Engineers.

Prof Geetam Tiwari delivering her talk

The Award ceremony was successfully held thanks to the effort of Mr L D Gupta, Director, CEAI and his team and support from our GC members.

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SEMINAR ON “PORTS AND INDUSTRIAL CORRIDORS” The Ports & Industrial Corridors sector takes pride of place as one of the most dominant segments in our economy. It is envisaged that the Govt will make a huge investment in the infrastructure sector. The Consulting Engineers Association of India is, therefore, organising the Seminar on “Ports & Industrial Corridors” on April 7, 2017 at India International Centre, New Delhi. As of now, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) and PIANC (The World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure) are supporting partners for this event. The seminar comprises an inaugural and three technical Sessions relating to Ports, Connectivity & Logistics and Port based SEZs, Industrial growth centres, etc. Major players from the Government and the Private Sector have already expressed their intent to participate in the Seminar to deliberate and share their experiences with various stakeholders. Participation Those who wish to present papers at the Seminar are requested to send an abstract of the paper in soft copy (in not more than 500 words), along with their profile and photographs at the earliest. It should deal with the Seminar theme. The selected authors will be required to submit the full text of their paper by 20th March 2017. This is a unique opportunity to reach out to the key decision makers in Government and doyens of industry engaged in Ports & Industrial Corridors. We would, therefore, request you to kindly support this event and nominate delegates from your organisation for attending the same. Sponsorship options and delegates registration forms are available in CEAI website www.ceai.org.in . They could also contact the CEAI Secretariat.

On this occasion, a Souvenir containing abstracts of papers, messages from dignitaries, advertisements and other useful information will be published. It will have wide circulation and distributed free of charge to the participants of the Seminar, Government Departments, PSUs etc. Organisations are invited to advertise in the souvenir to promote their respective organisations. Tariff for the advertisement is as below: Back Cover Rs.25000/- Inside Back Cover Rs.20000/- Inside Front Cover Rs.20000/- Full Page Rs.15000/- Half Page Rs.10000/- Advertisement material (hard and soft copy) along with Cheque/DD favouring “Consulting Engineers Association of India” towards advertisement charges, should reach CEAI Secretariat before March 25, 2017. FIDIC TRAINING PROGRAMME - POSTPONED

Due to repeated requests from many organizations to reschedule the training programme due to the financial year ending, we are constrained to postpone the dates of training scheduled to be held at Bangalore (March 7-8, 2017) and Chennai (March 9-10, 2017). The new dates will be announced soon. CEAI OUTREACH

As part of an ongoing process, CEAI is continuously expanding its outreach by way of providing support to other professional events and promoting its own to reach out to new members. Some of these are : (a) SECUTECH India 2017 at Bombay Convention Centre,

Mumbai on 6th to 8th April 2017

(b) WORLDBUILD-India event at Mumbai Exhibition Ground, Mumbai to be held on April 20 to 22, 2017

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(c) Municipalika Smart and Sustainable Cities, 14th International Exhibition and Conference on Smart and Sustainable City Solutions, from 18th to 20th May 2017, at CIDCO Exhibition Centre, Navi Mumbai

IEI YOUNG ENGINEERS AWARD 2017-2018 With a view to promote the pursuit of excellence in the field of engineering, IEI has instituted ‘IEI Young Engineers Award’. The purpose of the Award is to recognize outstanding achievements/ contributions made by young engineers in engineering research, excellence in engineering development, technology transfer, etc. Any engineer citizen of India not older than 35 years of age as on March 31, 2017 is eligible for the Award. The IEI Young Engineers Award is presented to the awardees for all the 15 Engineering Divisions of the IEI during the respective National Conventions. The application proforma may be downloaded from IEI website http://www.ieindia.org/yngaward.aspx. Soft copy of the filled-in application proforma should be forwarded to award@ieindia.org by March 31, 2017. Further, six copies of the duly filled application form, along with all supporting documents, endorsed by appropriate authority should be sent to the Director (Technical), The Institution of Engineers (India), 8 Gokhale Road, Kolkata 700020, so as to reach IEI latest by April 10, 2017.

VIEW POINT The next issue of the View Point will be published in March 2017. The March 2017 issue will be dedicated to WATER & SUSTAINABILITY projects. Considering the vast experience amongst members in the sector, we would be happy to receive articles on the above theme for the March 2017 issue of VIEWPOINT. The article needs to reach us by 15th March 2017. Advertisement in View Point VIEW POINT is circulated to all CEAI Members, Government Departments, Public/ Private Sector Undertakings, Construction Firms, Contractors, Consultants, Foreign missions in India and others organisations related to the engineering profession. In order to encourage members and others, we have reduced the advertisement tariff considerably. The advertisement tariff per issue is given below: * Back Cover ₹ 20,000 Inside Front Cover ₹ 10,000 Inside Back Cover ₹ 10,000 Full Page ₹ 5,000 Service Tax @15% extra / as applicable *In case the advertisement is to be inserted in consecutive four or more issues of View Point, a rebate of 20% will be admissible.

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