HIPA in association with Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority organized three days Training of Trainers programme on “Strengthening of Techno Legal Regime to ensure Structural Safety” from 2nd  to 4th August, 2018 for the Urban Planners, Architects representing T&CP, UD, RD Departments and private sector registered with Town & Country PlanningDepartment and involved in planning, designing, constructions and maintenance of buildings. The main objective to organize this programme was to ensure safe construction by modifying the existing laws, development control rules and building byelaws and to make their use mandatory for effective techno-legal regime in the State.

The contents of the programme comprised General Designing and Planning of Buildings; Earthquake Resistance Design of  Structures  with reference to recent Revision  of EQ Resistance Codes Design Code IS-13920(2016);Cost Effective Housing with Reference to Hill  Areas and EQ; Land Use, Building Material, Basic Services and Labour Costs; Intervention for Cost Reduction; Space Specification, Material specifications ;Technology and Participation of Stakeholders;Regional Planning Approach; Needs, Aspects and Process of Planning for Special Region; Land Use Classifications, and Urban Planning Approach; Constitutional and Legal Provisions for Regional Planning; The Planning Scenario: Content, Need and Process of Renewed Spatial Planning System; Scopes and Purposes ; Critical Area of Concern in the Planning Process related to Earthquake; Techno-Legal- Regime for Structural Safety; T & CP Act & Urban Planning in the Context of H.P;Responsibility of Authorities & Professionals in Compliance of Building Bye-laws; Role of Architects and Urban Planners to provide Seismically Safe Built Environment to the Citizens.

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