Jointly Organized & Hosted by:
Civil & Structural Engineering Technical Division (CSETD), IEM and The Institution of Structural Engineers, Malaysia Chapter (IStructE)


SYNOPSIS

The workshop, inter alia, mainly covers the essentials for the Conceptual Design of Buildings and Structures. It is a well known and accepted fact that appreciation of the history of civil/structural engineering and the need for maintaining the structural heritage always offer the vital inspiration needed for the cumulative development of arts and science of conceptual design of structures.  

The workshop covers the conceptual design process adopted in real practice and will give candidates the opportunities to appreciate the creativeness demanded by the functional requirenets and other inherent conditions in the development of structural design. The workshop also covers the guide to structural robustness and disproportionate collapse in buildings.    

Concept design example will be explained in the Workshop and participants are expected to solve design examples. Therefore, the participants are requested to bring their own calculators. In addition, probable solutions for past years Chartered Membership Examination questions will be explained for the benefit of the enthusiastic young engineers who wish excel in the concept design of structures and for those aspiring engineers who wish to sit the world renowned 7-hour Chartered Membership Examination of the IStructE in future.


WHO  SHOULD  ATTEND

This workshop is suitable for practicing civil and structural engineers, young engineers in their formative years, engineering students and academics who wish to enhance their knowledge and understanding on the conceptual design of buildings and structures.


SPEAKER

Mr Rajavel Inbarajan  
MIStructE, DIC, MSc(Lond), BE(Madras)

Mr Rajavel Inbarajan obtained his BE (First Class with Distinction) in Civil Engineering from the University of Madras in 1988 and then obtained his MSc and DIC in Concrete Structures from the University of London and Imperial College London in 1997. He is a Corporate Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), UK, since 2004. The IStructE appointed him as an Examiner for the Chartered Membership Examination (CME) in 2008. He continues in this prestigious role ever since. He is one of the Chief Examiners for the January 2019 CME.

He has more than 25 years of quality and varied experience in conceptual design, detailed design and project management of very large structural and civil engineering projects in international and cross cultural set-up. He had been working with reputable International Consultants and Contractors in very large engineering projects with increasing responsibilities in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Singapore, Sri Lanka and India since 1988. His experience broadly covers the design and construction of high rise buildings, bridges, underground/above ground metro stations, mega water retaining structures/reservoirs, and the investigation/rectification of very large marine structures.

He had conducted seminars on Advance Structural Engineering, Water Retaining Structures and Investigation and Strengthening of Concrete Structures in Malaysia, Qatar and Sri Lanka previously. He has been delivering talks on CME and training enthusiastic candidates globally in their preparation for CME. Recently, he provided probable solution for the CME questions for publication in the examination preparation CD and the website of the IStructE.