Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) Kochi Centre conducted its annual award ceremony this year on 21 February 2023 at Crowne Plaza Kochi. This high profile event was sponsored by Ultratech and attracted the members from Industry as well as academia. This was one of the largest event of ICI this year and saw a long list of professionals from the field of construction industry. Though it was an award ceremony, the violin concert and musical extravaganza at the start set a great mood for the evening.
In addition to announcing the awards, an invited lecture on the topic “Improvements in Concrete Processing Leading to 3D Concrete Printing” by Prof. Kollur V.L.Subramanian, IIT Hyderabad was also organised as a part of the event. The talk was very informative and brought out the significance of Self Compacting Concrete and its applications in the field. The significance of 3D Concrete Printing and its numerous promising applications in the future was also elaborated by the speaker.
From ICI, the Awards were convened by Dr Anil Joseph (Chairman of ICI Kochi Centre), Dr Job Thomas (Secretary of ICI Kochi Centre), Er. Shyju Nair (Treasurer ICI Kochi Centre), Er. Sajith Bhaskar (Regional Head Technical Services Ultratech Cement Ltd) and Mr Ani George (Regional Head Marketing Ultratech Cement Ltd).
The ICI FISAT Students Chapter was among the five nominations under the category of “Best Students Chapter” in Kerala. AISAT won the award this time. There were also other awards in different categories like Best M.Tech thesis, Outstanding Concrete Engineer, Best Commercial Building, Best Residential Building with sub categories. There was also on display a Virtual Reality walk though which was a unique experience.
Dr. Kavitha P.E., Ms Neeraja Nair, Afrin Mubarack and Catherine Joby of the ICI FISAT student Chapter attended the award ceremony.
The most exciting and a big surprise was to meet out alumni during the event. We had a great time meeting and interacting with them. The sumptuous dinner followed, we had big trouble choosing from the long array of dishes.
It was indeed a day well spent, meeting and interacting with the people from Industry and gave us a great networking opportunity.
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Catherine Joby, S8 CE
Nice :)
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