Contractors, others to be trained on Pozzolana cement usage

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Aug 21, 2012 at 3:30pm

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Staff of Architectural and Engineering Services Limited, AESL as well as scores of contractors, masons and artisans in the Eastern Region are to be trained on the use of Pozzolana cement to complement Portland cement and reduce the cost of building.

The training, scheduled for August 22 at Koforidua, will focus on operational mixture of Pozzolana cement with sand and cement for plastering, concrete and the production of hydraform blocks for building.

The training, which is being jointly organized by Pozzolana Ghana Limited, PGL in collaboration with AESL, is on the theme Pozzolana cement; key to transforming the construction industry.

The AESL Managing Director, Satchmo Atongo said, the training was necessitated by the urgent need for AESL to acquire technical and operational knowledge of the use of Pozzolana cement.

He said, AESL was using Pozzolana cement to build about 250 schools across the country under the government’s policy of removing schools under trees.

The Managing Director of PGL, Vivek Garg said, the contractors would be schooled on how to use Pozzolana cement with natural or industrial Pozzolana and Portland cement.

He said in the light of the critical housing shortage and the need for quality construction in Ghana, Pozzolana cement provided a cost-effective alternative to the steadily increasing cost of cement.

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