The second international No-Dig South Africa Conference and exhibition 2014 Conference and Exhibition will take place in Pretoria 29-30 July this year at the CSIR Convention Centre, having early registration deadline on 4th July.
The conference programme will feature the ISTT Trenchless Masterclass, presented by international experts, Dec Downey and Sam Ariaratnam, both past chairmen of ISTT. Day one set to feature on New Construction and Day two will be on Rehabilitation respectively.
Complementing the Master-class will be a number of case study presentations to highlight successful projects in both areas. On Day 1 Neil van Rooyen of TT Innovations will describe a recently completed project for the Du Noon Pump station in Cape Town which utilised pipe ramming to install two large diameter steel pipelines below a heavily trafficked dual land roadway. Following this, Tuomas Lasheikki of Geonex from Finland will give a history on Scandinavian job sites where down the hole horizontal drilling has been used in rocky conditions.
Frank Stevens of Herrenknecht and Montso Lebitsa of Hatch Goba will combine to elaborate on the some selected sewer project case studies including the Point Road Mahatma Ghandi Road sewer extension project in Durban.
On Day 2, Alaster Goyns will focus on sewer deterioration and rehabilitation considerations for choosing appropriate rehabilitation techniques. Following this, Marco Camarda of Trenchless Technologies will give a paper on the winning ISTT Project in 2012 which was the spiral wound piping technologies, the challenges faced and how they were overcome.South African engineers attending the conference will be awarded CPD points.
Alongside the conference will be an exhibition of products and services presented by an international line up of exhibitors. In addition to South African suppliers, vendors will be represented from Australia, Finland, Germany and Italy.
The full conference programme and registration information is to be found on the event website www.nodigsouthafrica.com
