The Hindu 18.02.2010
Training programme for Corporation engineers
Staff Reporter
CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation will organise a training programme for its engineers on seismic risk evaluation of buildings this month-end.
The programme is part of a project on ‘Remote sensing and GIS applications for Chennai city on e-governance aspects.' Around 60 engineers of the civic body would participate. One of the important components of the project involves screening of buildings in the city, assessing their vulnerability and preparing a data on GIS format. The programme would help engineers of the civic body screen the buildings to assess and grade them. A data on the earthquake resistance of schools, hospitals and office buildings of the Corporation will be made in GIS format by the engineers. This would be made available for disaster mitigation initiatives, an official said.
“Unless we know which building is earthquake resistant, it is not possible to carry out evacuation when calamity strikes,” said the official.
