The capital city of Bhubaneswar, which now houses a large number of high-rise apartments and comes under seismic zone II, bears risk of damages due to possible earthquakes.
Keeping this in view, the KMBB College of Engineering and Technology and the DKM Consult Pvt will organise a programme at the IDCOl Auditorium here at 6.30 pm on Friday wherein noted earthquake expert Prof Durgesth C Rai would deliver a lecture.
Prof Rai would present information on essential principles of design and construction of structures that would minimize damages to life and property due to earthquake.
An MTech and PhD in Structural Engineering, Dr Rai has been pursuing research, teaching and consulting activities at the IIT at Kanpur since 2002. Dr Rai specialises in Structural Engineering and Earthquake Resistant Design of complex structures. He has extensive experience of studying impact of all latest major earthquakes around the world and in particular in different parts of India.