CMA TO PRESENT TWO PAPERS AT INTERNATIONAL CONCRETE BLOCK PAVING CONFERENCE:
Article Date: 19 March 2009
 Concrete Manufacturers Association (CMA) director, John Cairns, will be presenting two papers at this year’s SEPT (Small Element Paving Technologists) conference in Buenos Aires.
The first covers South Africa’s new paving standard, SANS 1058, and the second will be a review of the permeable paving installations and applications that have taken place in South Africa to date. Cairns believes permeable paving has a very important role to play in South Africa’s storm water management.
Roughly 60 papers will be presented by delegates from around the world between 18th and 21st October. SEPT conferences and workshops, which attract worldwide interest, generate technical information on interlocking concrete pavements, permeable interlocking concrete pavements and concrete paving slabs.
The SEPT executive committee, comprising 20 CBP (concrete block paving) experts from around the world, meet every 18 months, at triennial conferences, and once between them, at planning workshops.
Cairns, who is a member of the committee, says that in addition to the Buenos Aires conference a SEPT workshop will be held in Germany during May 2011, and after that the next SEPT conference will be held in Shanghai in October 2012. The last conference was held in 2006 in San Francisco.
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