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flag India's Seismic Academy 2025 urged nationwide retrofitting to boost earthquake resilience in vulnerable areas.

flag The Seismic Academy 2025, hosted by Hilti India on October 24, 2025, gathered engineers, policymakers, and industry leaders to advance India’s earthquake resilience through structural retrofitting. flag The event highlighted the urgent need to strengthen aging infrastructure, especially in seismically active regions, and emphasized the importance of adopting updated seismic codes like IS 1893-Part 6. flag Experts discussed retrofitting techniques such as base isolation and damping, real-world applications in projects like the Mumbai Coastal Road, and the role of tools like the BMTPC’s Vulnerability Atlas. flag The conference stressed national collaboration, improved technical training, and integrating retrofitting into urban renewal and housing programs to ensure long-term safety and code compliance.

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