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Respected Guests & Participants, Ladies and Gentlemen Assalamualaikum and

Good afternoon. I am Afsana Alam, lecturer of department of civil engineering
welcome you all on behalf of the Civil Engineering Department to the seminar on
“Subsoil investigation and bearing capacity of foundation: a practical
approach. It is both an honor and a privilege to stand before you today and I
warmly welcome you to this learned community.

2. Today We feel honored to have with us Hon’ble Chief Guest Prof. Dr. Md. Nural
Anwar, The Vice Chancellor of Port City international University, Special Guest
and keynote speaker of today’s session Lt. Col Mohiuddin Ahmed, P Eng, Chief
Engineer, Chittagong City Corporation, Respected Dean Prof. Engr. Mafzal
Ahmed, Chairman, Department of Textile engineering, Prof Dr. Shudip Kumar
Paul, Faculty of Department of Civil Engineering, Chittagong University of
Engineering & Technology and the Coordinator of Department of Civil
Engineering, Port City International University, Registrar Md. Obaydur Rahman,
Controller of Examinations Md. Salim Hossain, Proctor & Chairman of Business
Administration Associate Professor Dr. Asif Mahbub Karim and Chair of this
Session Asistant Professor Md. Abu Yusuf, Chairman, Department of Civil
Engineering and other Chairmen of different departments.

3. Now, I would like to request our Chair of today’s session, Chairman of the Civil
Engineering Department to come forth along with our Honorable Chief Guest,
Respected keynote speaker and other distinguished guests to kindly occupy their
chairs.

4. Let us have a big round of applause to welcome them.

5. Before starting the program, I would like to call Md. Abdur Rahman From CEN 3
batch to recite some verses from the Holy Quran.

6. Thank you Md. Abdur Rahman for this sacred recitation.

7. Now, I would like to welcome our Special Guest Chief Engineer of Chittagong City
Corporation, Lt . Col Mohiuddin Ahmed with floral reception and to do this honor,
I would like to request our Honorable Vice Chancellor of Port City International
University Professor Dr. Md. Nural Anwar

8. Today it is a great moment for all of us that we are honored by the presence of the
respected Chief Engineer of Chittagong City Corporation Lt. Col Mohiuddin
Ahmed and I thank him for kindly being the key speaker at this session. We fully
appreciate you finding the time to be with us despite your tight schedule as your
presence underlines the seriousness for enhancing the knowledge on geotechnical
engineering which will certainly make this seminar fruitful and productive.
9. Now I am taking the honor to call upon our Chief Guest Honorable Vice Chancellor
Prof. Dr. Md. Nurul Anwar to give away the welcome speech.

10.Thank you Sir for your encouraging and valuable words.

11. Ladies & Gentleman, with the permission of the Chair of today’s session, I would
like to introduce our keynote speaker Lt. Col Mohiuddin Ahmed P Eng, Chief
Engineer Chittagong City Corporation, former Associate Professor, Military
Institute of Science and Technology who has a wide range of professional
experiences and in executing verities of civil engineering construction and
maintenance projects.

He is also an expert on Coastal Embankment protection by effective use of

Geotextile, Construction of membrane structures with light steel trusses, Deep
foundation – Geotechnical analysis and design, Dynamic soil properties, Dynamic
soil-structure interaction, Earthquake and slope stability and Soil liquefaction
problems and so on. Now Without further ado, let us welcome Lt. Col Mohiuddin
Ahmed sir with a round of applause.

12. For a sound structure, sound foundations are a must and for making sound
foundations, the type and strength of sub soil which, ultimately, is going to support
the foundations, are a very crucial factor. Most of the time, the buildings fail due to
bad or weak foundations

13.We have been listening to eminent speaker deliberating in the areas of subsoil
investigation and bearing capacity of foundation. All these valuable insights gave us
a new perspective that one should adopt while discussing these issues.

14.Now, may I take the opportunity to request our today’s Chief Guest our Honorable
Vice Chancellor of Port City International University Professor Dr. Md. Nural
Anwar, to kindly give out the crest to the respected keynote speaker Lt. Col
Mohiuddin Ahmed

15. We are at the very last moment of the seminar, now I would like to call upon the
respected chairman of Civil Engineering, Assistant Professor Md. Abu Yusuf to
convey the vote of thanks to all. Thank you.