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The CoGri Group and its South African partner, Royal Consulting (Pty) Ltd, in collaboration with the Concrete Society of Southern Africa, successfully held mini seminars for the Inland Branch and Western Cape Branch. The special mini-seminars took place on the 7th and 9th July at the Midrand Proea Hotel in Midrand and at the Civil Engineering department of Stellenbosch University respectively.
The seminars coincided with the visit of Kevin Dare, Chairman of the CoGri Group in the UK, and were supported by the Cement and Concrete Institute (C&CI) and Royal Consulting (Pty) Ltd.
Both events attracted a significant number of audience, 90 delegates at the Stellenbosch University and 150 delegates in the Midrand Protea Hotel. This included 86 non-members, representing architects, consulting engineers, contractors and suppliers to the industry.
The focus of the seminar was ‘problem free concrete floors – fact or fiction?’. Proceedings were opened by the Chairman, John Sheath, with an overview of the Concrete Society and the benefits it can offer to members. This was done specifically due to the high numbers of non-members present, and will be repeated at all future meetings in an effort to boost membership (individual and company).
Bryan Perrie, Managing Director of the C&CI presented an overview of the current concrete flooring market in South Africa, which included details of common failures in concrete floors and designing and specifying to prevent them.
Kevin Dare presented his paper in two parts – one on the design process and detail design and the other on performance-based specifications.
Many references were made to the latest edition of the Concrete Society UK’s Technical Report TR34 within which he had particular involvement in developing the flatness specifications.
Concluding the programmed was a short talk by Ian Buchanan of Royal Consulting who presented a case for the setting up a South Africa Association of Industrial Flooring Contractors.
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