Poster Title: Evaluating the Seismic Risk of Non-Structural Building Components (NSC) in Urban Schools in Bhutan using RVS-Based Assessment
Mr. Chimi is a practicing architect and Lecturer at College of Science and Technology under Architecture Department since 2012. As a first architecture faculty, he has started Bachelor of Architecture Programme at CST and taken up a role as founding Head of Architecture Department. He has graduated from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and completed his master in Architectural Design from SRM university, Chennai in 2016 under Nehru-Wangchuk Scholarship. Β Beside teaching students, he has also carried out management works like College Management Committee, College Academic Committee and College Research Committee. He has also taken up role in contributing infrastructure planning and Design in college and university. As an academician he has also actively engaged in carrying out research work in the field of Heritage Conservation, Urban planning, Nature based solution for disaster management and Tertiary Teaching-learning Pedagogy. He is working as a Member of Working Group V- Nature-based Resilience (NBR), under South Asia Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (SADRI), IEEE R10 Bhutan Subsection and Centre for Disaster working member Risk Reduction and Community Development Studies (CDRR&CDS) under RUB. Currently, he is involved in key projects listed below:
Evaluating the Seismic Risk of Reinforced Concrete Buildings of Colleges under the Royal University of Bhutan Using the RVS Method-A research to policy-making,supported by the CDRI fellowship.
Exploring strategies for Sustainable riverfront development in Bhutan: A case study of the Omchu river under Phuentsholing Throm supported by the AURG.
For more detail: https://sites.google.com/rub.edu.bt/chimi/about-me