School of Concrete Technology
Welcome to the School of Concrete Technology (SCT)
2024 EDUCATION PROGRAMME
We live in exciting times! Especially in the field of concrete technology.
These exciting times are being brought about by climate change and new technologies.
Climate change is now a reality, revealing itself with the ever-increasing occurrences of extreme weather events, rising sea levels, loss of ice cover in the arctic and northern hemisphere, warming oceans, rising temperatures, and changing rainfall patterns. Extreme weather events such as flooding, storm surges, high winds, heat waves and droughts with frequent and severe wildfires, requires a resilient and pro-actively designed and built infrastructure. Concrete will play a vital role in the mitigation of these adverse effects.
Climate change unfortunately presents a double edge sword for the concrete industry. Durable concrete infrastructure is needed for the mitigation of extreme climate change events while at the same time there is an associated carbon footprint with the use of more concrete. Herein lies a second exciting challenge for concrete technology, which is the drive towards carbon neutral concrete.
Striving for a lower concrete carbon footprint involves interesting challenges in mix design, material use and structural design covering the whole life cycle of concrete. Something that, only a few years ago, truly little time and thought was assigned to.
New technologies are evolving in the concrete industry. The deployment of drone technology, thermal imaging, remote sensing, admixture advances are all examples, but by far the newest and biggest kid on the block is 3D concrete printing. It is in its infancy and currently can be likened to the ‘brick like’ cell phones of yesteryear, but given the phenomenal advances in cell phones, we can easily say, regarding 3D concrete printing, in words borrowed from Bachman-Turner Overdrive “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”. The potential for 3D concrete printing is quite staggering, providing juicy work for those involved in concrete technology and structural design. The concrete ‘ink’ mix design requires a whole new innovative look at materials and admixtures to meet the unique properties required of 3D printed concrete.
To take advantage of these ‘exciting times’ a solid foundation in concrete technology education is needed. The School of Concrete Technology (SCT) has a structured progression of course levels that will allow a prospective student to join at a level that matches his or her competency. There can be no short cuts to becoming a good concrete technology practitioner and the SCT has all the educational requirements to help you meet your goals.
Please contact the School of Concrete Technology to discuss the best concrete technology educational path for you.
The school would like to thank all clients and students that supported us during 2023. We look forward to continuing your concrete education in 2024.
CONTACT DETAILS
School of Concrete Technology
+27 (0)11 315 0300
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SCT ADMINISTRATOR
Rennisha Sewnarain
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COURSE ORGANISER
Eldene Magill
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VENUES
JOHANNESBURG
Cement & Concrete SA
Block D, Building 10, Lone Creek, Waterfall Park,
Bekker Road, Midrand
DURBAN
Premier Hotel
Premier Hotel Pinetown, 65 Kings Rd
CAPE TOWN
PPC
Corner Chain Avenue and Montague Drive, Montague gardens, Industrial
LECTURERS
Gary Theodosiou
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Meet Gary Kyriakos (Gary) Theodosiou Gary graduated from Wits University in 1978 and has 17 years experience in structural concrete, steel and timber design. During this time he worked for Keeve Steyn & Partners (now known as Goba), LSL incorporated (a company that specialises in materials handling), BKS incorporated and Anglo American where he was involved in several major reinforced/prestressed concrete and structural steel structural projects including Soccer City, the Chamber of Mines Engineering Building at Wits University, the Vaal Triangle Technikon, precooling towers and reservoir for Vaal Reefs 10 Shaft, Sadiola Gold Mine in Mali and TR5 Transfer house for the Taiwan Power company. Gary joined C&CI in December 1995. He has worked in the Technical department, the School of Concrete Technology and headed the structural marketing focus department until C&CI closed in April 2013. John Roxburgh Meet John John Roxburgh After completing his Building Science degree, John worked for LTA building where he gained extensive experience on various contracts. Before joining C&CI in 2009, John spent six years as a technical manager in the brick and block manufacturing industry, a job in which he travelled widely through Africa doing technical training. John was awarded his Advanced Concrete Technology diploma in 2013. He has a keen interest in all facets of the concrete industry and is especially passionate about concrete technology education. Matthews Magwaza Meet Matthews Matthews Magwaza Matthews Magwaza was introduced to world of cement and concrete when he joined Cement Distributors of
PrEng BSc(Eng) GDE, MICT
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BSc (Building Science), MICT
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Lecturer
South Africa where he remained for seven years. He joined the C&CI in 1996 where he contributed to the training laboratory and presented onsite training. He has the ability to speak five African languages, which assists learners that do not have English as their first language.
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