Engineers Workshop on “Design on Seismic Retrofitting of Masonry Building” was conducted on 26-30 June at Hotel Elephant Head, Nagarkot. The program was organized by Department of Education, Government of Nepal and sponsored by Asian Development Bank. There were altogether 30 numbers of participants from Department of Education which include 2 from private firm. The program objective was to share the basic concept of analysis and retrofit design of masonry buildings that are abundantly available in Nepal. The participants were able to learn the analysis and retrofit design of masonry buildings by manual method and similarly the construction process and technology of the most feasible retrofit method in Nepal. The participants also understood that more in-depth knowledge is required in software usage for analysis and design using any structural engineering software such as SAP, ETABS etc.

Participants during engineers' workshop on 'Design on Seismic Retrofitting of Masonry Building'		Group photo session after training