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DRK's News Letter - December, 2023

Events at KPRIET

Events

The Bridge Conclave - Development of the bridge-form globally over the past 35 centuries






Start Date : 15/03/2022 - End Date : 15/03/2022

Start Time : 09:30 AM - End Time : 05:00 PM

Department: Department of Civil Engineering

Place: RAAGAM HALL

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KPRIET is continually involved in organizing various lectures by renowned experts for the benefit of students to equip themselves with the latest technologies. As an extended initiative, we feel extremely happy in organizing "Bridge Conclave" on the topic "Development of Bridge-form globally over the past 35 centuries" on March 15, 2022 at our college premises. The event is planned to be scheduled in hybrid mode(both online and offline) for the benefit of participants from other states in India and across the globe. 

Session will be handled by Dr. V. K. Raina, who is the Team Leader of the UN Team-of-Experts for over 10 years for multi-Billion USD, Highways-&-Bridges Projects in the Middle east. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada, Consultant and Senior Expert for nearly 17 years with The UN, The World Bank and The African Development Bank. He has been the Senior Technical Advisor to many Govts. and States, Dr. V.K.Raina is also Distinguished Chair Professor: Bridges (AICTE), Professor-Emeritus. He was awarded the Life- time Achievement Award in Civil Engineering in the fields of BRIDGE: Design, Construction, and Rehabilitation-and-Retrofitting, and recipient of the coveted S.B.Joshi Award of Excellence in Bridge Engineering. He has professionally worked in over 22 Countries and trained hundreds of Engineers in the above fields, and has DESIGNED and SUPERVISED CONSTRUCTION of over 110,000 lane-meters of CONCRETE BRIDGES in different countries on various types of foundations in different substrata conditions. He has investigated the Structural and Forensic  Health of many Bridges and Retrofitted many in various Countries.

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