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Young Engineer of the Year Award 2021 

Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao was awarded the “Young Engineer of the Year Award-2021” by Institution of Engineers (India) on 15 September 2021 for providing new insights into different retrofitting techniques using low-cost and innovative composite materials for the safety of unreinforced masonry buildings and for implementing few of these techniques in one of the heritage structures located in Kolkata, West Bengal. The conducted research will be useful for future studies on vulnerability assessment of existing and strengthened masonry buildings. This research will be of significant importance in the context of assessment and mitigation of seismic risk for masonry housing stock.