CEST Club of NIT Rourkela

CYCLONE RESISTANT BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Cyclones have been an inescapable situation in India, especially in the eastern states of Odisha, West Bengal, and Andhra Pradesh. This calls for the construction of cyclone-resistant buildings in cyclone-prone areas to avoid loss of life and property. Low-lying coast areas, river floodplains, and sea-shore areas are highly vulnerable to cyclones. Certain settlement pattern even causes "funnel effect" which results in greater damage. While it's a common belief that heavier buildings are safer, in reality, a well built and engineered house provides better safety. Minimum standards for the design, construction, and performance of buildings to withstand extreme climate-related natural hazard events depending upon their locations should be set. We know cyclones are beyond human control but measures can be taken to reduce the loss of lives like evacuating people to safe areas, quick recovery of important fa...

Jhon Smeaton (1729) is considered to be the father of civil engineering, he is the first person to coin the term civil engineering as it is said that he is the person to distinguish between military and non-military engineering. In 1747, the first institution for the teaching of civil engineering, the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussés was established in France. ∙According to Hindu mythology, the science of architecture and civil construction is known as Sthapatya-Shastra. The earliest practice of civil engineering is done in between 2000-4000BC in Egypt, The Indus Valley, and Mesopotamia it is the time humans realized the need for development and constructing a shelter instead of finding one. The construction of pyramids which is still uncertain were some of the first of the large structure constructions, other ancient great constructions include the Qanat water management system, The Appian Way, Great Wall of China, and many others. There are some famous and even mysterious cons...