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By Rory Macnamara
SEE – FEEL – TOUCH: The activity planning is hotting up
for PlumbDrain Africa 2020.
PIRB plumbers concerned about CPD points,
never fear – most of them will come from
PlumbDrain! Non-registered plumbers will
also benefit hugely by attending.
Five industry group meetings will take place during
the three days. The IOPSA NEC will meet as will
SA Watermark executive committee and the PIRB
board. There will be an engineers’ lunch which will
include owners of plumbing businesses and the
Gauteng IOP plumbers evening will also take place.
CPD points are available for attendance at the
plumber’s meeting.
Most of the exhibitors will be having fault-finding
stations where CPD points will also be on offer.
The IOPSA Seminar Theatre will be holding a
number of workshops and seminars on:
• Backflow prevention
• Geyser, Solar and Heat Pump installation
• Rainwater and Greywater
• Catch up on SANS and especially SANS 3088
which will eventually become 10400 XB –
Water Efficiency in buildings.
• Short- and long-term insurance
• Business for profit
• Beware verbal instruction BVI can cost one
many bucks and even the company!
• Contracts
• BBBEE/ Transformation – the positive aspect
• Merchant/Wholesaler – discussion on
compliance. PA
SASTT trench technology
association AGM
By Eamonn Ryan
The Southern African Society for Trenchless
Technology (SASTT) hosted its 29th annual
general meeting on 18 February at the training
premises of ELB Equipment in Boksburg. The
financial report for 2019 and budget for 2020
were presented, followed by the President’s
report for 2019.
Standing President, Sam Efrat, stood down as
president, his term being complete, and Abraham
Avenant of Martin & East assumed the presidency for
2020. It was followed by a presentation of projects
in Cape Town which benefitted from considerable
cost savings due to use of trenchless technology, by
Roger Williams of the City of Cape Town.
SASTT has 45 corporate members and nine
individual members. It was announced that it was
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intended to host another ‘No Dig Conference’ in
2020. Its website had been upgraded during the
year to make it more interactive and to contain
more news articles.
A highly successful outdoor seminar on trenchless
technology was hosted on 2 – 3 September last year,
and Efrat said this format of seminar would become
a regular feature of the future, as its success was
attributable to its outdoor demonstration capability.
He thereafter gave a review of the international
trenchless conference held last year in Florence, Italy.
The Annual International No Dig Conference is
the flagship event for the International Society for
Trenchless Technology’s (ISTT) education and training
efforts. The event offers high-quality peer-reviewed
technical papers presented by trenchless experts
from all over the world. PA
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