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- Geospatial Information Management Workshop is underway at NSET
- Co-Creation Workshop on Update of Comprehensive School Safety Master Plan and Green School Guidelines held
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- NSET constitutes New Management Board (2024-2026)
- 31st NSET Day marked
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Engineers are trained on Earthquake Resistant Building, Design and Evaluation
Twenty nine engineers and sub-engineers from seven municipalities, Hetauda, Bharatpur, Butwal, Siddharthanagar, Putalibazaar, Gorkha and Vyas Municipality and one VDC,from Gaidakot, Nawalprasi are now trained on "Earthquake Resistant Building: Design and Evaluation" under the Building Code Implementation Program in Nepal (BCIPN). The training was jointly organized by the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD), Department of Urban Development and Building Construction (DUDBC) and the National Society for Earthquake Technology - Nepal (NSET) from the 26 March to 28 March 2014, with the funding support from USAID/OFDA. The purpose of this training was to enhance the technical capacity of municipal/VDC engineers to design earthquake resistant buildings and to evaluate the submitted building designs and drawings as per the building code provisions.
Glimpses of Earthquake Resistant Building workshop program from Chitwan
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