STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FORUM OF INDIA [SEFI]

4th July 2016

This is India, where compliance of the law is not a priority. You can make all the laws you want to regulate the profession, but you cannot enforce it unless all the stakeholders coop ...

30th June 2016

My points of view:

1. Architects -- whether we like it or not, in a building project, the architect is and will always be the team leader, because it is the architect who creates ...

28th June 2016

Mr Sirish Patel's article depicts the sad state of a knowledge based profession in this country. No one in his right mind invites tenders from doctors, lawyers or CAs, but our profes ...

23rd June 2016

Alpa, my compliments on an article that I wish I had written. You have described the problems faced by the structural engineer to a nicety. Indeed, my own experience in life and the ...

20th June 2016

I have just completed 58 years of working life. I have grown up in this country and watched moral values sink to depths I had never thought we would reach. It's been a story of moral ...

15th June 2016

Sangita, you do lead an interesting life. I thought you folks in Delhi were more knowledgeable than we hicks in backward Assam, but to ignore seismic actions in a tall building in Zo ...

15th June 2016

Sangeeta, I share your feelings of outrage about the treatment the construction industry metes out to us, as well as the unethical professional practices adopted by some of our fello ...

18th April 2016

It is now clear, from the photo sent by Er Tridibesh Indu that the failure was because the compression flange of the cantilever arm was not connected properly to the vertical member ...

18th April 2016

I would very much like to have Dr Subramanian's book on RCC Design, but it's not available in the local bookshops in Guwahati, Assam.

Indrajit Barua.

From: Dr. N. Subramanian ...

1st April 2016

All I can say that 'EL' cannot be computed with scientific exactitude. Even DL & LL cannot. For your information, in the 2nd Hooghly Bridge construction in Kolkata, many concrete ...