Technical Talk for the Civil Engineering students on account of ‘Techno Week’ by ACCE
28-Mar-2019
Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (ACCE) in collaboration with Ultratech Cement facilitated a technical talk on account of ‘Techno Week’. The eminent resource persons were Er. Ujwal D'Souza, Director O&A Marian Projects Pvt. Ltd., Managing Partner-Marian Infrastructures and Er. Eknath Dhankery, Structural Consultant, Sigma Civil and Structural Consultants.
Er. Ujwal D'Souza emphasized on the installation, operation, and monitoring of the MEP (Mechanical, Electrical and Public health systems) services in buildings, which form the technical services provided to the high rise buildings to ensure the safe, comfortable and environmentally friendly operation. He also discussed on the evolution of security systems in high rise buildings. He spoke about building automation system, which is a computer-based control system installed in buildings that controls and monitors the building's safety and security.
Er. Eknath Dhankery, in his talk, educated the students about the earth retaining structures which included Gravity walls, Cantilever walls, Counterfort retaining wall, Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls (MSE Walls), and sheet pile wall, suitability of constructing the earth retaining structures and common modes of failure in earth retaining structures.
Er. Ayyub, representative of ACCE, Mangalore Chapter was also present during the talk. The students of the 2nd year Civil Engineering got benefitted through the session.
