CEMENT & CONCRETE
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ement and Concrete South Africa’s School of Concrete Technology (SCT) offers a diverse selection of online concrete training courses and hopes to include live classes again in 2022, subject to Covid-19 restrictions. Since going online, students have enrolled for the SCT’s more advanced courses from diverse global areas that include Uganda, Kenya, New Zealand and the UAE, says John Roxburgh, senior lecturer at the SCT. “Staff of South African mines in remote areas have also made extensive use of the SCT30 ‘Concrete Technology’ course in preparation for their engineers’ mining ‘tickets’ of competency. For our more basic brick- and block-making courses, enrolments have come from distant rural areas such as Mthatha and Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape; Mkhuze, Msinga and Mvoti in KwaZulu-Natal; as well as
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Giyani, Steelpoort, Phalaborwa and the Venda region in Limpopo province, to name just a few places,” Roxburgh states.
Comprehensive programme The school’s 2022 Training Programme offers more than 15 concrete training courses, three of which are internationally recognised, including the highly soughtafter and internationally recognised Advanced Concrete Technology diploma. In addition, SCT of fers concrete technology courses tailor-made for specific company requirements. “Concrete work on-site is usually a major cost component in construction contracts. With trained staff – competent in all relevant aspects of concrete practice – contracts can be carried out more economically and quickly, with fewer costly site errors and the necessity for repairs and damage to reputations,” says
John Roxburgh, senior lecturer, School of Concrete Technology
Roxburgh, illustrating the value of investing in concrete education. Roxburgh says South Africa urgently requires competent concrete practitioners and sales specialists in areas that include admixtures, construction chemicals, readymix concrete, precast, concrete repairs, cement and aggregate production. For further info, call +27 (0)11 315 0300, email rennisha.sewnarain@cemcon-sa.org.za or visit www.cemcon-sa.org.za.
