January 2012
ECA(SA) hopes for a better year for contractors despite economic uncertainty
CHRIS Greager, national director for the Electrical Contractor's Association (SA) says he is hopeful that 2012 will be a better year for the industry.
"Let us face it," says Greager, "2011 was a horrendous year for most electrical contractors. Work was scarce, competitors charged ridiculously low rates to secure what little work there was, and the ‘powers that be' did little to police or eradicate unregistered ‘pirate' contractors who are doing so much harm to this industry."
"Our efforts over the past year to get the training of apprentices moving again - now that this industry has been transferred to the Construction CETA - have been very slow and incredibly frustrating."
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Contractor's Corner This section covers new products and industry news including news on Tzaneen Municipality adopting a complete metering systm by ACTOM Protection and Control, a new 800kVA generator for the Botha Sigcau building in Mthatha, VETI monoblocks, an new SABS energy standard, and news from Zest WEG about the Twangiza project in the DRC. Cables and cable accessories
This interesting feature looks at a flexible cable floor system for working environments from Legrand, a new safety feature on test leads from Fluke, and a hand-held labelling system from Grafo Wiremarkers.
Buyer's Guide The Buyer's Guide lists manufacturers and distributors of products and services for Earthing, lightning and surge protection - including power supply filtering, surge protection devices, mains protection and MV surge protection. Earthing, lightning and surge protection This regular feature covers the Megger earth/ground resistance tester, and surge protection for medium and low voltage generators, motors and transformers from NTSA. Lighting This feature is packed with interesting articles on lighting, lighting trends and news from the lighting industry. Articles include news about Radiant's stylish Lombardo range from Italy, Philips LED streetlighting at Durban's ICC, Eurolux's new catalogue that was launched in December, and how BEKA transformed Uitenhage's Market Square. Personality of the Month Luk Ivens, Legrand's general manager for the past year, is one of those ‘straight down the line' people who has the remarkable ability to observe a situation from all perspectives and then make a final decision based on a neutral viewpoint. Columns In Terry Mackenzie Hoy's column, ‘Working Knowledge' he gives some advice on how to start the new year with a few projects that will make life easier...
Mark Palmer of the Gauteng Electrical Inspection Authority looks forward to a year when much-needed change in the electrical industry will take place...
Columnist, Hannes Baard feels the electrical industry has ‘gone to the dogs' or, at best is speedily on its way!
In this month's column, Nick du Plessis asks "why not register for your Wireman's Licence this year?" and informs readers on how to go about doing this...
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