CEAINEWSLETTER December 2013 FROM THE PRESIDENT S DESK. Dear fellow Consulting Engineers, Wishing Each One and Your Families A Very Happy, Prosperous, Healthy & Safe New Year Indian consulting engineering is over 50 years old and has progressed well. It has become the backbone of the country s development and growth. Today Indian engineers are recognized for their knowledge, well grounded and rounded experience with capabilities to deliver a project in an integrated manner within India as well as abroad. That is an extremely creditable achievement. However, the question that is upper most in the mind of many seniors is how do we ensure that it remains so, to sustain the current knowledge base and improve on it so as to take it to greater heights by the present and future generation. The more one ponders on this issue the more one realises that it can best be done by working on meeting the objectives of our Association, which are reproduced in this Newsletter for ready reference. Presenting and explaining about projects from their conceptualization to commissioning, covering all facets and disciplines of engineering at workshops and training courses in different cities, would be one way, secondly by doing that in the place of study, i.e. in the colleges/ institutions, thirdly by being external examiners for the graduate and post graduate courses and fourthly and perhaps the best way would be to take in fresh trainees engineers graduates and diploma holders as well as ITI draughtsmen, and provide them the opportunity of working in a professional atmosphere for a year. In keeping with its objectives our Association has planned events for the year and of those the ones to start off the year will be seminars on Environment, FIDIC Contracts, Blast Resistant Design of Structures, and the like. For your Association to be effective the sine qua non is active support of its members. While rendering of advise, suggestions, etc. are no doubt required and welcome but what is really necessary and essential is for the members to take upon them the onus of just one agenda at a time and see it through to its logical conclusion. This would call for stepping out beyond the comfort of their home and office, dedicate themselves to the cause of the consulting engineering fraternity by taking charge of an activity/event which will further the objective of the Association. With best regards A P Mull CEAI NewsLetter December 2013 1
Aims & Objectives of Consulting Engineers Association of India (abstracted from the Memorandum of Association) 4.0 AIMS & OBJECTIVES 4.01 To promote the interests and enhance the status of the Consulting Engineering profession of India. 4.02 To represent the Consulting Engineering profession within India and abroad. 4.03 To promote professional interests, rights and privileges of Consulting Engineers. 4.04 To disseminate among its members information on all matters affecting engineering and to spread knowledge and information connected with Consulting Engineering profession by arranging lectures, discussions, or correspondence, by holding of conferences, by the publication of papers, periodicals or journals, books, circulars and maps, etc, by encouraging research work, by the formation of a library of libraries, and collection of models, designs, drawings and other articles of interest in Consulting Engineering. 4.05 To give the Parliament, the State Legislatures, the Government of India, the State Governments, the Municipal Corporations and other public bodies, and others facilities for conferring with and ascertaining the views of Consulting Engineers as regards matters directly or indirectly affecting engineering, and to confer with any of these bodies and others. 4.06 To carry out and sponsor research on problems relevant to the Consulting Engineering profession. 4.07 To promote the adoption of equitable forms of contracts and other documents used in the practice of Consulting Engineering profession. 4.08 To encourage the settlement of disputes by conciliation, mediation or arbitration, and recommend or nominate conciliators, mediators and arbitrators. 4.09 To frame and maintain a Code of Professional Ethics and to ensure its observance through self regulatory measures with a view to emphasize their duties and obligations and promote fair, just and equitable dealings in Consulting Engineering practice. CEAI NewsLetter December 2013 2
4.0 AIMS & OBJECTIVES 4.10 To borrow or raise or secure the money required for the purpose of the Association in such manner and on such terms as the Association may deem fit, and to secure the same or the repayment and performance of all other things which are incidental or which the Association may think conducive to the attainment of the aims and objectives of the Association. 4.11 To confer and cooperate with associations and organisations and others engaged in activities having aims and objectives similar to those of Association. 4.12 To purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire of otherwise acquire any property and any rights or privileges which the Association may think necessary or convenient, and in particular any lands, buildings or works, and build, maintain and alter any building or works of the Association. 4.13 To sell, let, mortgage, dispose of or turn to account all or any of the property, rights or privileges of the Association. 4.14 To set up any trust which may lawfully be undertaken by the Association and may be conducive to the attainment of its aims & objectives. 4.15 To invest and deal with the moneys of the Association not immediately required for its purposes, in or upon such investments, securities or property as may be thought fit for the benefit of the Association. 4.16 To establish and support or aid in the establishment and support of any charitable or benevolent association or institution and to subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent purposes in any way connected with the purposes of the Association or calculated to further its aims & objectives. 4.17 To draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, and other negotiable or transferable instruments. 4.18 To exercise the Association s rights and privileges by holding meetings of its Members and the Governing Council to frame rules of business from time to time for the conduct of the business of the Association and to maintain books, hire people and establish one or more offices, branches, sub-divisions and agencies in furtherance of the aims and objectives of the Association. 4.19 To do all such other lawful acts and things as are incidental or conductive to the attainment of the above objectives or any of them. CEAI NewsLetter December 2013 3
4.0 AIMS & OBJECTIVES 4.20 To acquire such assets as may be necessary to further the aims and objectives of the Association and to dispose them off in any manner deemed fit. 4.21 To mobilise resources for the Association by way of subscriptions, donations, grants, and the like. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF CEAI The 17 th Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Consulting Engineers Association of India held on Saturday, 21 st December 2013 at CEAI Bhawan, and approved the following: 1. Minutes of the 16 th Annual General Meeting held on 15 th March 2013 were confirmed. 2. Adopted Annual Report of the Association for the year ended 31 st March 2013. 3. PassedAudited Accounts of the Association for the year ended 31 st March 2013. 4. Appointed Auditors for the financial year 2013-2014, CEAI NATIONAL AWARDS 2013 As per the request received from a large number of members, the Governing Council, at its meeting held on 21 st December 2013, it was decided to extend the last date for receipt of Nominations till 31 st January 2014. The Brochure and the Nomination forms have already been circulated to all members. Members are requested to send their Nominations latest by 31 st January 2014. For more details about the Awards, please contact the CEAI Secretariat. FORTHCOMING EVENTS NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCES ISSUES, CONSTRAINTS, COMPLIANCES AND SOLUTIONS CEAI is organizing a one-day National Workshop on Environmental Clearances Issues, Constraints, Compliances and Solutions on 7 th February 2014 at New Delhi. The aim of the workshop is to understand the process of Environmental clearances so as to help get projects processed with better understanding to get more expeditious decisions. Eminent speakers from CEAI NewsLetter December 2013 4
MoEF, State Pollution Control Boards, DPCC, Project Developers, NABET and Renowned experts on environment will make presentations and share their experiences. Members are requested to send their nominations / nominate delegates from your organization for attending the workshop. The registration fee is Rs 4,000/- per delegate (inclusive of Service Tax). Members are also requested to sponsor the event to make the event a grand success. Sponsorship options and benefits are given below: CATEGORY AMOUNT (INR) BENEFITS Sponsor Rs. 50,000/- - 2 Delegates free of Registration fee - Display of Name of the Company and logo at the venue Supporter Option - I Rs.25,000/- - 1 Delegate free of Registration fee - Display of Name of the Company and logo at the venue Supporter Option - II Rs.10,000/- - Display of Name of the Company and logo at the venue More details about the Workshop are available from CEAI Secretariat. WORKSHOP ON BLAST RESISTANT DESIGN OF STRUCTURES Workshop on Blast Resistant Design of Structures will be held in New Delhi on 7 th & 8 th March 2014 and in Mumbai on 10 th & 11 th March 2014. The workshop is being organised in association with Baker Engineering and Risk Consultants, Inc. USA, Accord Engineering Services, India, Indian Association of Structural Engineers (IAStructE) and Consulting Engineers Association of India (CEAI). Blast resistant design of structures which was hitherto limited to use in refineries, petrochemical plants, storages for LNG, LPG etc., nuclear containment vessels, blast pans in defence airports, and the like is now becoming a requirement for public buildings on account of the rise in terrorism. The seminar is aimed to bring the international best practices for the benefit of engineers in India and will focus on the procedures and practices used in the analysis, design and retrofit of structures subjected to blast loads from accidental, industrial and terrorist explosions. The seminar will delve on the provisions of UFC 3-340-02 Structures to Resist the Effects of accidental Explosions (2008) and CEAI NewsLetter December 2013 5
the recently revised ASCI Publication Design of Blast Resistant-Buildings in Petrochemical Facilities. More details about the Workshop are available from CEAI Secretariat. FIDIC ASPAC & TCDPAP CONFERENCE 2014 The Annual FIDIC-ASPAC & TCDPAP Conference 2014 will be held during 2 nd to 5 th March 2014at the Westin Resort, Nusa Dua Bali Indonesia. The Conference is open to all sectors of Consultancy Business in Asia Pacific and decision makers from government entities, as well as the Business leaders of the regions. For further details about the conference program updates & online registration, please contact the Secretariat, The National Association of Indonesia Consultants, Jl. Bendungan Hilir Raya No.29 Jakarta 10210 Indonesia, E-mail : secretariat@fidicaspactcdpapbali2014.com, Phone: +62-21 719 3433 / +62-21 573 8577. Website: www.fidicaspactcdpapbali2014.comor contact event organizer Deasy Sugiharti by email:deasysu@yahoo.comorbali_conference@inkindo.org Secretariat Consulting Engineers Association of India OCF Plot No.2, Pocket 9, Sector - B Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070 Tel: 91-11- 26134644, Telefax: 91-11- 26139658 Email: ceai.ceai@gmail.com, Website: www.ceaindia.com CEAI NewsLetter December 2013 6