Technical

The Importance of Concrete Surface Preparation

The third and final of the ACA and ACRA series of joint webinar presentations on Silicosis and its prevention. Adequate surface preparation is the key to successful concrete repair and concrete protection projects. Inadequate surface preparation often leads to the failure of the repair or coating necessitating further re-work, incurring added expense, facility operational downtime and compromised integrity of the remediation and protection works.

Corrosion in Space

In space, does corrosion sleep?

Dust Control in Construction

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.

Evolution of Coatings for Protection against CUI

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.

ACA Applicators Technical Group 2020 Summary

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:

Steel reinforcement corrosion in concrete | Warren Green; Vinsi Partners

Golden Trowel Award

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...

Applicator Field Day raffle

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...

Certificate III (Apprentice) training

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...

Blended Learning with the ACA

Justin Rigby takes us though the difference between traditional classroom only learning and Blended learning

Organic Corrosion Inhibitors | Jessi Jackson Meyer; MCI

Organic Corrosion Inhibitors - Presentation by Jessi Jackson Meyer. This video is taken from the 2017 Brian Cherry Symposium.

New Zealand Experiences with Concrete Service Life Prediction Models: A Brief History

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...

Modelling Durability of Reinforced Concrete Structures

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,...

Concrete Road Bridges | Barry Wright; NZTA

Speaking as a "low tech client" Barry Wright takes us though the process of identification and remediation of bridges in New Zealand.

Understanding Galvanic Corrosion – Dr Robert Francis

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.