The second in a series of joint webinar presentations on Silicosis and its prevention, presented by ACRA and The ACA. The presentation gives the audience a view of how much dust normal operations of drilling, cutting and grinding concrete generate. It then covers the engineering controls available to manage dust emission and how you use these in conjunction with PPE to ensure operators/supervisors remain well below the required Silica dust levels.
28th June 2020
The ACA Oil & Gas Technical Group invited our first international guest speaker, Neil Wilds (Sherwin Williams) to kick off a series of webinars focused on the challenges of detecting and mitigating CUI. Corrosion under insulation (CUI) is one of the major problems faced by asset managers throughout the oil and gas industry. Neil will be delivering a presentation on the evolution of coatings for protection against CUI, then taking questions from our attendees.
25th June 2020
The ACA Applicators Technical Group (ATG) was formed to represent the needs of specialist contractors in industries that serve the protection or restoration of corrosion affected structures throughout Australasia including New Zealand. These include companies and individuals in; concrete remediation and protection, applied concrete floor finishes, surface preparation and protective coating of steel and hazardous coating removal. The ATG, aligned with many other associations and technical groups, has been severely impacted by the restrictions imposed on our members with the cancellation of conferences, seminars and training courses. The ATG has proposed revised outcomes for 2020 and 2021 are as follows:
1st June 2020
The 2019 ACA Awards Evening saw the Inaugural Golden Trowel, proudly sponsored by McEllignott Partners, being awarded to National Concrete Solution’s, Jamie Fenton. Proudly Sponsored by McElligotts Jamie has surpassed...
27th May 2020
Applicator Technical Group supported by Wagner Group are proud to announce the winner of our Applicator Field Day raffle was Jim Mortlock who received a brand new Titan PowrCoat 1064 (64:1...
26th May 2020
Certificate III (Apprentice) training through the assistance of BlastOne and ACA Applicator Technical Group, TAFE NSW can deliver courses available nationwide in Australia for Applicators. Phone Lisa Freeland on 0419...
26th May 2020
Justin Rigby takes us though the difference between traditional classroom only learning and Blended learning
11th May 2020
Organic Corrosion Inhibitors - Presentation by Jessi Jackson Meyer. This video is taken from the 2017 Brian Cherry Symposium.
3rd May 2020
N. LeeOpus Research, Petone, New Zealand SUMMARY: As an island nation, much of New Zealand’s infrastructure and many of our metropolitan areas are in close proximity to the sea and...
23rd April 2020
R.E. Melchers Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability,The University of Newcastle, Australia SUMMARY: Management of reinforced concrete assets increasingly relies on analytical models to predict the time to reinforcement corrosion,...
16th April 2020
Speaking as a "low tech client" Barry Wright takes us though the process of identification and remediation of bridges in New Zealand.
7th April 2020
This lecture is in four parts and was filmed at the Corrosion & Prevention Conference in 2015. The series was released to members then but as we are all stuck at home the ACA has released the series publicly.
2nd April 2020
Corrosion of embedded steel is a leading cause of deterioration in reinforced concrete structures.
30th March 2020
Over the next few weeks we will be publishing a series of digital papers collated from the 2017 Brian Cherry Forum. These papers are free to read for ACA members. Our first paper is "Up to Date Overview of Aspects of Steel Reinforcement Corrosion in Concrete" by Warren Green, Frank Collins and Maria Forsyth.
24th March 2020