“AIT must change,” Prof. Sudip Rakshit told an audience last week as he publically unveiled the brand new AIT Research Strategy 2012-2016.

Thailand has three options for managing and controlling floods, including creating a detention basin of three million Rais (3000 million cubic meters); creating an additional East flood bypass channel; and creating both East and West flood bypass channels in addition to the detention area. These options were postulated by eminent flood expert Dr. Seree Supratid of The Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Climate Change and Disaster Center, Rangsit University at a discussion organized by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 24 February 2012.

President of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Prof. Said Irandoust has postulated the concept of a Safe, Secure and Sustainable (3S) AIT campus. Speaking on the occasion of the event organized to mark the return of AIT to its mother campus in Pathumthani, Prof. Irandoust said the AIT campus is being reconstructed on lines of sustainability so that it can act as a model for others to emulate. Further, the Institute seeks to emerge as a Knowledge Hub in the field of flood management. President Irandoust stated that all rebuilding, reconstruction and renovation is being conducted on the basis of principles of safety, security and sustainability.

A delegation from Tohoku University, comprising of Prof. Hideki Harada and Prof. Tatsuo Omura handed over a donation of 1 million Yen to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) for repair and rehabilitation of the Institute campus. The donation was handed over to the AIT President, Prof. Said Irandoust on 25 February 2012.

Experts deliberate at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) as the Institute returns home.