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Volume 40 No. 1 2016
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION
Front Cover: Tswane Rapid Transit Stations – The Memory Box
Photo: Megapix Digital
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EDITOR Reneé Pretorius
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in this issue...
SAISC COMMENT 2016 Hurdles – ready, get set... go!............................ 2 PROFILES Visiting Architect: Friso van der Steen........................ 4 Spencer pays a visit to Uitenhage Super Steel........... 6 INDUSTRY NEWS Industry news in brief.................................................. 7 SAISC Steel Awards: Call for nominations............... 10
Trends: News from the USA – A family journey through steel................................................................. 11
PROJECTS: Architecturally exposed steel
Tshwane Rapid Transport Stations.............................. 14 Newtown Junction................................................... 16 Pretoria Porsche Dealership..................................... 18 TECHNICAL
What designers and fabricators need to do to achieve a quality corrosion control system.................. 20
SAISC SUBSIDIARIES
SASFA: Annual review of LSFB activity during 2015............... 24
ASTPM: Structural hollow sections: an attractive alternative for your structures................................... 27
SAMCRA: Concealed-Fix, Secret-Fix and Standing Seam cladding.................................................................... 28
SAISC NEWS Calendar of courses and events............................... 26 Social snippets......................................................... 29 Membership list........................................................ 30
Join us on and editor’ s note
“ writing the last of 74( as Spencer pointed out) editor’ s notes for Steel Construction. The next one will be from the new editor of the magazine, Denise Sherman.
It is probably safe now to confess that Hennie( retired CEO of the Institute) and Spencer took a chance appointing me as editor of the magazine back in 2003( yes). I sort of knew how to write a press release and previously edited a monthly staff newsletter. And it was right before the big Steel Awards issue of that year. With their help and some rescues along the way however, I survived the first few hurdles and got to enjoy rather than fear the business of compiling a magazine from scratch( deciding what to put into it) to finish( delivery at the office – phew).
Firstly, I would like to thank Spencer, Steel Construction’ s sub-editor, read here- magician; stepping in when there is a crisis; technical‘ demystifier’; backing up when there was a bit of slipping up etc. Thank you Spencer, this magazine would not have reached its current standard( which from my objective point of view is quite high) without you. Secondly my sincere appreciation for the rest of the‘ production team’ – Sandra Addinall the ever patient lay-out artist and my attention to detail back-up; David Stapleton from Camera Press, who pulled more than a few rabbits out of a hat; and Viv van Zyl, another magician, who despite the cyclical nature of the industry managed to always source the advertising needed to keep the magazine going and growing.
Thank you to the rest of the staff for answering my pleas for material by sending me excellent articles on relevant issues which I would never have thought of by myself. Note: There is nothing more satisfying to an editor( generalisation) to receive a well written, excellent article with eye catching images.
Then lastly to the advertisers who make it possible to publish Steel Construction and you, the reader. Without you it would have been meaningless to be the editor( sort of like that guy in the factory who kept punching a hole in a metal contraption but its function has long been made redundant).
My( as the editor) last issue features exposed architectural steelwork, my favourite part of the big steel story. Steel is indeed beautiful.
Keep on enjoying the magazine!
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