T he future in interna- tional civil engineering services is the Building Information Model (BIM) which calls for merging Information Technology with the classical civil engineering, having provisions for safety and energy efficiency, civil engineering ex- perts from Germany said on the opening day. "BIM is a pure IT approach, com- bined with classical civil engineer- ing. This is new approach for civil engineering services providers across the world now. We are propagating the same for India", Director for CE-N, Germany, Harri Siebert said. He was speaking at the inauguration of the company's India office in the city in associa- tion with its India partner based in the city, Kunal IT Services. "The civil engineers earlier would work with thousands of drawings. One would not come to know if one of the drawings related to a project would go missing. This would leave some gap in the overall construction. Now we are using software to provide information on structural elements, add fire protection properties, energy saving abilities and the cost evaluation. One would also be able to make a more accurate estimate of time required for structural erection.", Siebert said. Principally, future buildings will be modeled by this concept. The experts are also advocating for having proof checks by experts for fire and earthquake safety. (Turn to Page 2) CE-N Inauguration at CommerZone, Yerwada –Sakaal Times Month: February 2011 Volume 1, Issue 1 Inside this issue BIM - A Future Potential 1 Go Green with your computer 2 Women Entrepreneurship 2 Filtering rivers is now possible 3 Share and preserve your memory 3 n-Tier Application Architecture 3 ITechKNOWlogy Tips 4 CE-N Director Harri Siebert inaugurates company's India office in Pune. German Director Gerd von Spiess, Prof. Horst Schäfer, CTO Dr. D. N. Buragohain and Director Santosh Kolhe also present on the occasion. Director’s Day @ CE-N, India C E-N, India celebrated 16th January as the birthday of our Direc- tor, Santosh Kolhe. It was a great moment for every- one to be a part of the celebra- tion. The occasion was later graced by a motivational speech by the Direc- tor. His speech covered the re- fined vision and mission policy of the organization, the fast- changing trends in civil engineer- ing, the efficient use of latest technology in addition to classical civil engineering and the integral role of software development in CE-N. He also emphasized on importance of interesting Business marketing concepts: B-to-B and B- to-C marketing. BIM – A Future Potential B uilding Information Model is not just a great picture – it is a complete representation of the project, including materials, fin- ishes, behavioral attributes and more. A complete 3D representa- tion of the geometry of the project is its foundation. It is much more than that. Explore it! (Turn to Page 3) Ritesh.Patil @ce-n.com CE-N Systems Pvt. Ltd. CommerZone IT Park, Bldg. # 4, 2nd floor, Samrat Ashoka Path, Off. Airport Road, Yerwada, Pune - 411006. Maharashtra. India www.ce-n.com Dear Readers, It gives me immense pleasure in presenting the first issue of this newsletter for you. I congratulate the edi- torial team and the contributors for this wonderful initiative at CE-N, India. Happy Reading! -Santosh Kolhe From the Director
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T he future in interna-
tional civil engineering
services is the Building
Information Model
(BIM) which calls for merging
Information Technology with the
classical civil engineering, having
provisions for safety and energy
efficiency, civil engineering ex-
perts from Germany said on the
opening day.
"BIM is a pure IT approach, com-
bined with classical civil engineer-
ing. This is new approach for civil
engineering services providers
across the world now. We are
propagating the same for India",
Director for CE-N, Germany, Harri
Siebert said. He was speaking at
the inauguration of the company's
India office in the city in associa-
tion with its India partner based in
the city, Kunal IT Services.
"The civil engineers earlier would
work with thousands of drawings.
One would not come to know if
one of the drawings related to a project would go missing. This would
leave some gap in the overall construction. Now we are using software
to provide information on structural elements, add fire protection
properties, energy saving abilities and the cost evaluation. One would
also be able to make a more accurate estimate of time required for
structural erection.", Siebert said. Principally, future buildings will be
modeled by this concept. The experts are also advocating for having
proof checks by experts for fire and earthquake safety.
(Turn to Page 2)
CE-N Inauguration at CommerZone, Yerwada –Sakaal Times
Month: February 2011 Volume 1, Issue 1
Inside this issue
BIM - A Future Potential 1
Go Green with your computer 2
Women Entrepreneurship 2
Filtering rivers is now possible 3
Share and preserve your memory 3
n-Tier Application Architecture 3
ITechKNOWlogy Tips 4
CE-N Director Harri Siebert inaugurates company's India office in Pune.
German Director Gerd von Spiess, Prof. Horst Schäfer,
CTO Dr. D. N. Buragohain and
Director Santosh Kolhe also present on the occasion.
Director’s Day @ CE-N, India
C E-N, India celebrated
16th January as the
birthday of our Direc-
tor, Santosh Kolhe.
It was a great moment for every-
one to be a part of the celebra-
tion.
The occasion was later graced by a
motivational speech by the Direc-
tor. His speech covered the re-
fined vision and mission policy of
the organization, the fast-
changing trends in civil engineer-
ing, the efficient use of latest
technology in addition to classical
civil engineering and the integral
role of software development in
CE-N. He also emphasized on
importance of interesting Business
marketing concepts: B-to-B and B-
to-C marketing.
BIM – A Future Potential
B uilding Information
Model is not just a great
picture – it is a complete
representation of the
project, including materials, fin-
ishes, behavioral attributes and
more. A complete 3D representa-
tion of the geometry of the project
is its foundation. It is much more
than that. Explore it! (Turn to Page 3)
Ritesh.Patil @ce-n.com
CE-N Systems Pvt. Ltd.
CommerZone IT Park,
Bldg. # 4, 2nd floor,
Samrat Ashoka Path,
Off. Airport Road,
Yerwada, Pune - 411006.
Maharashtra. India
www.ce-n.com
Dear Readers,
It gives me immense
pleasure in presenting
the first issue of this
newsletter for you.
I congratulate the edi-
torial team and the
contributors for this
wonderful initiative at
CE-N, India.
Happy Reading!
-Santosh Kolhe
From the Director
(From Page 1)
"As per the Germany model, the
state can set up a system which
would nominate experts from the
field with at least 10 year of ex-
perience. They have to pass a test
to become proof checkers", CE-N
Director, Gerd von Spiess said.
“I admire the designers of WTC
towers. The architects of WTC
towers in the structural design
had made the provision for with-
standing the impact of an aircraft
collision. But the huge fire caused
by the fuel that exploded in the
structure, resulted in its collapse”,
Professor Horst Schäfer from
University of Dortmund, Germany
said. He was speaking on the
sidelines of the inauguration of
the Pune office of the German
company Civil Engineering Net-
work Systems.
Professor was entrusted with the
responsibility by the German state
government North Rhine-
Westphalia to study causes of
WTC collapse and prepare a re-
port on fire protection concepts
for its structures.
CE-N Inauguration at CommerZone, Yerwada
Go Green with your computer!!!
waste.
Approach:
1. The PC manufacturing process
accounts for 70 % of the natural
resources used in the life cycle of a
PC. Therefore, the biggest contri-
bution to green computing usually
is to prolong the equipment's
lifetime.
2. By using terminal servers, users
at a terminal can connect to a
central server; all of the actual
computing is done on the server.
These can be combined with thin
clients, which
use up to 1/8
the amount of
energy of a
normal workstation, resulting in a
decrease of energy costs.
3. Teleconferencing technologies
are often implemented in green
computing initiatives with many
advantages.
4. Recycling computing equip-
ments can keep harmful materials
such as lead, mercury, and hexava-
lent chromium out of landfills.
G reen computing is "the
study and practice of de-
signing, manufacturing,
using, and disposing of computers,
servers, and associated subsystems
efficiently and effectively with mini-
mal or no impact on the environ-
ment.” The goals of green comput-
ing are to: reduce the use of hazard-
ous materials, maximize energy
efficiency during the product's life-
time, and promote the recyclability
of defunct products & factory
“Green computing
refers to
environmentally
sustainable
computing: the
practice of using
computing
resources
efficiently.”
Page 2
Prof. Horst Georg Schäfer
Shalini.Nair @ce-n.com
Tech-toon
Simple Energy Saving Tip @ home
“We shape our buildings,
thereafter they shape us.”
Brainteaser
Which number is missing from the web?
Women Entrepreneurship
great inspiration for others to
follow.
One of my school friends lost her
father due to heart-attack. Her family was left out in a mental and finan-
cial distress with only the mother and 2 daughters. Her father ran a
business which was very little-known to her mother being a housewife.
Her mother had to learn everything about the business - besides manag-
ing the house. She not only managed it successfully to stabilize the busi-
ness but also educated both daughters to exceptional grades. Today, one
of the daughters is working for NASA and other for CBI.
Rahat Taslim, a lady contestant on KBC - who runs a small tailoring and
designing institute - won 1 crore rupees. She had wished that she would
use the money to motivate housewives like her to learn things, generate
an income and be self-sufficient. These, according to me, are real women
entrepreneurs. As they say “There is a Woman behind every successful
Man”.
W hen we think of Women
Entrepreneurship we
think of big names like
Chanda Kocchar-CEO of ICICI, Ritu
Kumar-Fashion Designer, Simone
Tata-Chairman, Trent Ltd; Shahnaz
Husain-CEO, Shahnaz Herbals; Su-
lajja Firodia Motwani-Joint MD,
Kinetic Engineering; Jyoti Naik-
President, Lijjat Papad; Nita Ambani-
Owner of Mumbai Indians, IPL and
more. We always hear and read
about these ‘larger than life’ distin-
guished individuals but let us not
forget their efforts. There are many
common faces around us who also
put similar efforts and emerge as
Trupti.Oza @ce-n.com
How well can you think???:
Charles is not fighting.
L ou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, The
Cleveland Clinic is designed by world-
renowned architect, Frank Gehry of Ge-
hry Partners in Santa Monica, California.
Gehry wanted to create a place in Las Vegas
that will be memorable. He explains, “The
mantra is Keep Memory Alive. I’m trying to make a
building that people will want to visit, remember,
talk about, and enjoy, and ultimately will want to
partner with us at the Center to help cure some of
the neurodegenerative diseases.”
Keep Memory Alive (KMA) supports work towards
enhanced treatments and research of neuro-
cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkin-
son’s, ALS, Hunt-
ington’s disease
and memory disor-
ders of all kinds.
We also support
work towards
providing en-
hanced resources for care givers who live with
those afflicted by these disorders. KMA strives to
create greater awareness of neuro-cognitive disor-
ders, educate those afflicted about cutting edge
treatment research and caregiver services and
promote prevention through lifestyle behaviors
that encourage healthy brain aging throughout life.
(Share your memory here)
Share and preserve your memory
Page 3 Volume 1, Issue 1
P lastic is one of the most
hazardous waste. Many
years the scientists are
fighting against it, to get rid of it.
An assistant professor of civil and
environmental engineering, Naji
Khoury, at Temple University has
come up with the answer that is
“Plastisoil”.
The name is self-explanatory that
it is the compound of Plastic and
Soil. Discarded plastic bottles and
soil is mixed together to form a
concrete-like substance Plastisoil.
When this soil is mixed with some
additives and heated it comes to a
form called Porous Plastisoil. The
method as described by Naji
Khoury is, “Discarded polyethyl-
ene terephthalate (PET) plastic
bottles are pulverized and mixed
with soil, and then that mixture is
blended with a coarse aggregate
and heated. The result is a hard
yet non-watertight substance,
similar to concrete or porous
asphalt.”
The difficulty with traditional
concrete and asphalt paving is
that the rainwater stays on the
surface and runs into the storm
sewers going on accumulating oil
and other road filth along the
way. With the help of surfaces
such as Plastisoil, that water is
able to percolate into the soil
below. This certainly reduces the
amount of pollutants entering the
rivers. Khoury and his team is
currently trying to determine if
Plastisoil could even serve as a
filter that removed pollutants as
the water filtered through.
An energy analysis shows that it
uses less energy to produce one
ton of Plastisoil than one ton of
cement or asphalt, and that it is
less expensive to manufacture
than similar products.
It takes 30,000 PET bottles to
make one ton of the material. It
will help reduce the 200 billion
plastic bottles that are sent to
landfills each year.
Filtering rivers is now possible
Bhushan.Save @ce-n.com
not accessed directly by other layers/components. Hence the table
names, field names are not hard coded anywhere. Having this layer
also provides an additional layer of security for the database as
other layers do not need to know the database credentials, connec-
tion string and so on.
Database Layer: This layer comprises of database components such
as DB Files, Tables, Views, etc. The actual database could be created
using SQL Server, Oracle, Flat file, etc. In an n-tier application, the
entire application can be implemented in such a way that it is inde-
pendent of the actual database.
Features of n-Tier Architecture
Security: Application has appropriate authentication, logging and
monitoring mechanisms.
Availability and Scalability: Application should be reliable and should
have fail-over mechanisms (redundancy) such as fail-over clusters.
Manageability: Application can be designed to have the capability to
deploy, monitor and troubleshoot. Methodologies to handle errors,
log errors provide useful information for problem resolution are
easy to implement.
Easy Maintenance: This is generally achieved by adopting coding
standards, deployment standards, modular application design, and
data abstraction and application frameworks.
Abstraction: Functionality changes are easily possible with modifica-
tions in business rules with least amount of impact to the entire
cept is the result of a fresh look at the construc-
tion process, taking into account modern compu-
tational tools. Traditionally, construction projects
are defined by numerous documents, among
which there may be overlap and inconsistency.
These are maintained separately by different
project participants, and inconsistencies are
typically discovered only in the field – when peo-
ple working with different documents bump into
each other. Dimensional consistency is also not
assured. That is, the numbers in the dimensions
on drawings may not be accurately reflected in
the geometry; drawings are often treated as un-
scaled relational schematics. Lack of consistency
among drawings in a set and lack of internal
consistency often lead to expensive construction
errors. The idea behind a building information
model is that of a single repository. Every item is
described only once. Both graphical documents
drawings and non-graphical documents specifica-
tions, schedules, and other data – are included.
Changes are made to each item in only one place.
Thus, every user of the repository can be certain
that what they are seeing is exactly the same
information that every other project participant
sees. This one change to the way project docu-
mentation is handled can greatly reduce the
number of communication problems that slow
down projects and increase costs. Having all the
documentation in one place creates an opportu-
nity to apply additional technologies to the build-
ing process – in particular, 3D modeling, based on
objects; full document linking, for comprehensive
model integrity; and logically centralized control
of project information.
Computers have made it possible to create realis-
tic renderings with astonishing control over light-
ing, color, texture, and even animation. The use
of data-based 3D models adds an additional fac-
tor: full precision, authenticity to reality.
A s per the work culture
in CE-N, all of us have
to work in collaboration
with the German colleagues. Here are
some useful tips for storage and synchronization
of important data, timely delivery of completed tasks
and smooth operation of the CE-N processes.
Your system drive (usually C:) is crucial. Do not copy any files
on this drive, My Documents, Desktop and such special folders
on the system drive. Copying files on the system drive may
cause problems to boot your computer. Always use the Secon-
dary drives (usually D: or E:) to store the data.
Back-up any and all critical files that you have modified today
to your drive/folder on the Server.
Update your anti-virus and anti-spyware software regularly if
the automatic updating is not working.
Uninstall programs that you are not using. Remove it correctly
to avoid system errors. Go to Start > Control Panel > Add or
Remove Programs. Find the program you want to remove in
the list, and click the Remove button.
Practice safe computing. Delete any suspicious emails without
opening it even if the email comes from your friends. Do not
open any email attachments with the following extensions:
* .exe, .com, .vbs, .bat, .mdb, .reg, and .js
Clean up your Temp folder, your Temporary internet files
folder, and other junk files once in a month. To do this easily,
you can use my favorite program for clean up: CCleaner or run
the built-in Windows Disk Cleanup tool.
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