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August 28, 2009

IDE Seminar 25/09/09 speaker line-up

The IDE have now finalised the programme for the Autumn Seminar at One Great George Street, Westminster. They are really pleased to have a number of speakers from Europe, as well as excellent speakers from the UK.

The speaker list is as follows:-

Ruud Shreijer, MD of Ruschh who have produced the world’s tallest high reach excavator and Ruud will speak about the technology involved in building this monster and how he sees the future of even larger high reach machines.

Rainer Cramer of SB- Mende who is speaking about demolition of concrete chimneys by robotic machines. Mende are a major contractor from Belgium and are specialists in concrete chimney demolition.

Arne Marx from Genesis will be speaking about the new generation of demolition shears designed specifically for the super high reach machines and for Oil Rig demolition.

Dick Green of Independent Explosives will be making a welcome return visit to speak about explosive demolition in India and we are sure that his talk will be as informative and humorous as usual.

Phil Burgess and Jan Andreson from HSE will be speaking about the training schemes for HSE inspectors who deal with demolition projects.

Peter Jones will give an alternative view to the problem of disposal of composite panels.

Riverside Consulting will bring us up to date with regard to the changes to type 3 asbestos surveys.

Alex Albon of Earth Exchange will tell us why we should all register with Earth Exchange to maximise use of waste products, hardcore, soils etc.

Simon Simpson of Wentworth House will speak on demolition from a structural engineer viewpoint.

Tickets are still available at www.ide.org.uk, but are expected to sell out quickly with such a varied programme.

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