Event Summary
The New South Wales Branch of the ACA invites all our members and those interested to attend a technical event at the Occidental Hotel. Please join us for a fun technical evening of networking and enjoy presentations from Justin Rigby & Ali Hadigheh.
This event is a great way to gain a new understanding of the different industries and meet some new people with a similar interest.
Event Details
Date: Wednesday 9th October 2024
Time: 5.45pm – 7.45pm
Location: The Occidental Hotel – Corner of York & Erskine Streets, NSW
Presenters
Justin Rigby | Principal – Remedy Asset Protection
Presentation Title: SUSTAINABILITY OF STRUCTURES THROUGH ADVANCED COATINGS: DRIVING TOWARDS NET ZERO CARBON
To achieve sustainability, most governments and corporations have identified three parallel pathways and have each developed their environmental policy, social policy, and governance policy, also known as ESG. This paper will focus on the environmental aspects of sustainability. Embodied carbon emissions are hard to eliminate. Some of our most common building materials – like concrete and steel – require process heat and chemical reactions that can’t be achieved with electricity alone. Without taking a targeted and collaborative action, embodied carbon emissions will be responsible for 85% of the built environment’s carbon emissions by 2050.
This study will focus on two ways in which the coatings industry aims to contribute towards a sustainable future:
• By better protecting built assets, and thus keeping embodied carbon embodied for as long as possible.
• Limiting emissions of greenhouse gas; improving air quality; and reducing the use of harmful materials.
Project specifiers have a responsibility to select the most appropriate protective systems that provide optimum durability to our infrastructure. Particularly now the carbon footprint of maintenance interventions needs to be considered in a life cycle assessment, the advantages of durable protective systems and the consequent reduced number of maintenance painting interventions will reduce the overall environmental impact.
Ali Hadigheh PhD, MEng (Struct), BEng (Hons 1), FHEA, CMatP
Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow
Senior Lecturer, Associate Head (Research Education) | School of Civil Engineering | Faculty of Engineering
Presentation title: Novel Approaches to Cathodic Protection and Corrosion Detection
Outline: Critical infrastructures such as bridges and offshore structures are long-term assets that play a crucial role in social and economic terms by benefiting communities and facilitating the growth of national and state economies. Corrosion of steel reinforcing bars is one of the most significant and persistent factors in the deterioration of steel-reinforced concrete (RC) structures. If these defects are not detected and repaired, the consequences can be catastrophic, particularly for structures with pre- or post-tensioned reinforcement (e.g., the Morandi bridge collapse in Genova, Italy in 2018 with 43 fatalities). This presentation will demonstrate our efforts to develop a novel and sustainable long-lasting cementitious matrix for impressed current cathodic protection systems (ICCP) using recycled waste and advanced composite materials. It also covers our cutting-edge research on the development of specialised optical sensors for corrosion monitoring of critical infrastructure through integrated experimental analysis and machine learning modelling.
Registration
- Although the event is free, registrations are mandatory.
- Registration for this event includes drinks and light finger foods.
- Registrations close Weds 2nd October at 3.30pm AEST