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T E C H N I C A L E D U C A T I O N C O M M U N I C A T I O N

Journal No. 109 September 2016

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Chairman: Ronnie Branders; Dep/Chair: Robert Mpai;

Treasurer: David Kleinhans; Secretary: Ms Bonnie Peden; Exco: Willem du Toit; Peter Murray; Bruno

Isler; Eugene Fereira; Clifford Kleinhans; Mickey Martin;

DOYENS OF THE LIFT INDUSTRY: Buddie Ceronie (2004)†; Schalk v/d Merwe (2005)†; Dr Theo

Kleinhans (2006 & 2011); Willem du Toit (2008 & 2015); Bruno Isler (2009); Alfie da Silva (2010);

Manny Perreira (2010); Peter Murray (2012); Sanjeev Singh (2013); Rodney Coetzee (Posthumous

2014); Billy Clifton (2014);

CURRENT & PAST CHAIRMEN: Steve Le Roux (1995-7)(†); Dr Theo Kleinhans (1997-2003); Ben

Peyper (2003-6)(†); Sanjeev Singh (2006-2015); Ronnie Branders;

INDEX

Photos from RLI Inspection Dossiers

Lift Industry News - New Schindler RSA Man-aging Director Lifts installed under the 1941 Factories Machin-ery & Building Work Act

Lift Inspection Portfolio Photos Invitation to SANAS Annual Communications

General - November Lift Inspectors’ Course New EN81-20 International Lift Standards

Nu-Line - Local Independent Lift Company Company Overview

When big is Really Big!

LIASA & LIRC Meetings 2016

LIASA AGM 11th October 2016 - Nominations LIASA Website ‘Dangerous Situation’ LIASA - We are on the Web LIASA Contact Details Educom Communications ...

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NEW KONE MANAGING DIRECTOR

ESTABLISHED JANUARY 2003

ROLAND JC van GAMEREN

“I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the new Managing Director for KONE South Africa, having taken over this role from Bastiaan Degeling, who has continued his ten-ure with KONE in Dubai.

Having worked in various positions within the KONE organiza-tion I am able to bring a wealth of experience, particularly in the installation business. One of our goals this year at KONE South Africa is to increase our customer satisfaction and business pro-fessionalism by continuing to upskill, sharpen and effectively mo-bilize our teams. Constantly improving upon the quality of our operations and equipment availability ensuring we provide our customers, with the most optimal people flow experience within South Africa”.

Hailing from the Netherland’s, Rolland speaks several languages - So Afrikaans will present no problem to him. As a business professional we look forward to his positive inputs into our RSA Lift Industry.

It was a singular pleasure to meet with Kone’s

new MD. We were impressed with his youth of

vitality and sense of purpose. There could be

little doubt that as a goal-setter he will develop

Kone’s professionalism to a higher level. His

experience in European lift circles speaks for

itself, underlying a strength of character that

will make him a force to contend with.

South Africa as a Third World Country will

however be a new business challenge for Ro-

land, presenting him with new hurdles to strad-

dle. Having progressed through the ranks in

Europe makes him an ideal contender for this

MD ‘hot-seat’ since he knows his product to

the full. His ready acquiescence will further

stand him in good stead with our difficult South

African client base and working conditions.


ESKOM - Historic Overview of

Power Station Lift Installations

Several of my peer colleagues have over the years voiced of their particular symbiosis to a special or specific client. Such a symbiosis for me in the mid-sixties was the Eskom power stations. Seconded to my first introduction to coal-fired power stations in Mpumlanga, was Camden. With what was to become a top achiever-team under Peter Schoombie, we started installing lift after lift within the plant. Peter and his assistants were housed in two caravans with dual tents on site. They had ample food allowances and were even awarded ‘Old Petros’ to cook for them, do washing and as-sist with the parts unpacking.

It became so cold in Ermelo in winter with the power station zinc sidewalls still to be installed, that Petrus and Jack warmed water in a ‘4-gallon’ Laural paraffin tin to heat up their spanners. They also used up jars of Vaseline to massage their hands and fingers as well as rolls of safety-plasters for the ‘cold blisters’. Heating was done by primus stoves using paraffin, as gas had not yet penetrated the heating scene.

Camden's first unit was commissioned in April 1967. The station's eight units were mothballed in 1990.

Camden was the starting point of the new South African national power grid consisting of a series of 400kV lines which today interconnect the entire country.

In the interim period, Hendrina power station was started, with the team moved there to install two or three lifts.

Then came Grootvlei (next to Balfour), but only two lifts as the rest were awarded to Express Lifts … then back to Camden and Hendrina. In each case the caravans had to be packed up and moved, pulled by a landrover and a bakkie.

Hendrina Power Station

Next to start was Arnot power station near to Middleburg. Peter and his team were by now installing a lift in three to four weeks because these were mostly identical technically … only the loads and numbers of floor entries changed.

With the millennium’s sharp increase in the demand for elec-tricity, the Eskom Board of Directors took a final decision in 2003 for the Return to Service (RTS) of three power stations, Camden, Grootvlei and Komati, that were mothballed in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. The initial Execution Release Ap-proval (ERA) document was valued at R4,029 billion. The en-tire return to service of the station was done for less than R5, 866 billion. The return to service project of the stations ended on 31 March 2010 with the entire stations fully commercial.

Our Schindler construction department were warned that Telkom were going to install new micro-wave towers, starting from Klerksdorp, each with one tall passenger-goods lift to raise the Telkom trans-receiver control panels up to each ser-vice floor. Schindler MD Mr René Hassler had already prom-ised the Builders that his top erection team under Peter Schoombie would be seconded to this new Telkom project of approximately 19 MWT’s - installed from Klerksdorp down to present-day Koeberg and up towards Windhoek … but that is another story!

PHOTOS FROM RLI INSPECTION DOSSIERS …


LIFT INDUSTRY NEWS …

New Schindler Southern Africa Managing Director ...

Mr Jorge Ramos

Early in August we had the pleasure of meeting with the new MD of Schindler Southern Africa … Mr Jorge Ramos. Jorge from Portuguese descent, is married and has two young daughters. He has degrees in Mechanical Engi-neering; MBA’s in both Public Relations & Marketing and Operational & Factory Management. Added to these are post graduate studies in Portugal, Otis Farmington (USA) and the German Chamber of Commerce.

After six years with Mercedes Benz in Portugal, Jorge en-tered the international Lift Industry in 1995 when he joined Otis, based in China. Promoted in 2001 to Otis USA, Jorge was appointed to Sales and Installations Operations Direc-tor. In 2007 Jorge was promoted to Managing Director of Otis Morocco & Africa Export.

Jorge joined Schindler Lifts in December 2013 as North Africa Regional Director where he made such an impact that he was promoted to Area Export Director for Africa and the Far East, with 33 distributers grossing 36 million Euros.

Now in July 2016 Jorge has taken over the Schindler South-ern Africa portfolio. With his extensive experience in gen-eral, sales, operations and distribution management, Jorge has become a guru in focusing on operational reorganiza-tion to improve results and quality of service to customers, especially on installation and service field operations.

Not surprisingly, Jorge speaks 5 European languages. We quipped that he would soon pick up Zulu and Tswana, and

maybe not averse to Afrikaans. There was little doubt in our mind that here is a man already used to work in difficult inter-national and multicultural environments. His AQ (application quotient) more than his high IQ, obviously stands him in good stead to develop his staff’s talents, reorganize their operations and achieve positive results. His discussive vitality to motivate people and build trustable relations with both employees and customers, is certainly going to make a difference to Schindler’s operational achievement in Sub-Sahara Africa.

Lifts Installed under the Factories, Machinery and Building Work

Act of 1941

Brandon and Tubby Brown from PE sent us this certificate from an old lift which they inspected recently, still with the old manual operating hand-lever in the lift car, but however dis-connected. We remember many such lifts in the major centers, some even fitted with a tip-up stool for the operator whom were mostly pensioners. Almost without exception they were Otis and Schindler, installed as far back as the 1930’s to 1945’s and some still running today … underlining the design and quality of lift manufacture of yester-year.

With South Africa’s approximately 32 000 lifts, escalators and hoists, many have aged above half a century. Modification and replacement work now exceeds new building structures. AIA’s and RLI’s are now more than ever before having to focus on what is compliant on every unit inspected according to its original commissioning date during the above 1941 Factories Act, the 1984 MOSAct and the 1994 OHSAct with all its am-mendments, the latest being the September 2010 amendment bill.


LIFT INSPECTION PORTFOLIO PHOTOS

For the first time in over two decades, the wind was so strong

at the Kanonkop MWT that I had to enlist the added assis-

tance of one of the vine-cutters pruning the nearby vines, in

order to open the MWT’s door. It then required indomitable

rugby front-ranker scrummage ability to open the door again

from the inside on completion - Closing the door was no

problem as the wind performed that duty.

This year we noticed fencing installed in an attempt to keep vandals from defacing and writing on the canon. A pity that some human beings have no value of historic artifacts that formed our South African history.

INVITATION to

SANAS

ANNUAL

COMMUNICATIONS

Apply immediately to attend with Miss Ngobe Nom-

bongo at …

[email protected] / +27 12 740 8421

Cape Town - Protea Hotel (Jip de Jager Drive)

Tuesday 6th September @ 09:00 < 14:00

Port Elizabeth - Elizabeth Place (Pickering Street)

Wednesday 7th September @ 09:00 < 14:00

Durban - Riverside Hotel

Thursday 8th September @ 09:00 < 14:00

Gauteng - Accolades Boutique Dale Road, Mid-

rand @ 08:00 < 14:00

Its in your own best interest to hear the latest

developments as well as the opportunity to ask

questions on the way forward

TELKOM MICRO-WAVE TOWERS

Possibly the most panoramic vista site in my portfolio is the DuToit Kloof or ‘Hawerkwas’ Telkom MWT. Collecting the entrance keys from Paarl’s ATE (automatic telephone ex-change) the GPS altimeter registers 95m above sea level. At the top of Du Toit’s pass as you go over the neck, it registers 810m. Then through the security gate of Dr Mozz’s export quality protea farm and up the scary winding road (photo above) to the MWT’s entrance (photo below). The GPS registers 1337m at the MWT’s gate … a gigantic 1242m vertical rise above Paarl. The wind is so strong at this crest that one has to park on the leeward side of the tower so that you can at least open your vehicle’s door. Opening and closing the MWT security door is another story, akin to possessing The Rock’s muscular build.

Carrying out the ‘Kanonkop’ MWT inspection just north of Tyger Valley (Durbanville) the following day, is perhaps equally pleasant since it is situated on the crest of the historic ‘Kanon-kop’, with the canon still bearing mute evidence after over two centuries of sentinel duty. This ‘kanonplatz’ is sur-rounded by world famous vinyards, with Bloemendal’s equally famous restaurant a few hundred meters below. Standing next to the canon, one has an unimpeded bird’s eye view of Koeberg’s Power Station below you to the right, whilst in front and to the left lay Robben Island - Absolutely a panoramic beauty to behold from this height.


GENERAL

Contact Mariska at ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics and Industrial Design (B3-329)

Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (TUT)

Private Bag X 680, Pretoria, 0001 Tel: +27 12 382-5164 Fax: +27 12 382-5602

E-mail: [email protected].

NEW EN81-20 INTERNATIONAL LIFT STANDARDS

Bruno Isler and Peter Murray warned us at recent LIASA general meetings that with the continual focus on lift-user

safety world-wide, new EN81-20 and EN81-50 standards had been approved by the CEN (European Committee for

Standardisation) and the German Institute DIN. Approved and published end 2014, immediately declared them valid …

but not compulsory until 1st September 2017 in Europe and January 2018 in South Africa.

This is somewhat of a dichotomy since the European multi-national manufacturing works have already started to manu-

facture according to the new standards defined in these bills. What this means to us is that they replace the familiar EN81

-1 and EN81-2 standards, which will continue to apply until then, implying an old and a new standard running parallel.

These standards will cover all type of passenger and goods lifts.

EN81-20 defines the design and technical parameters of lifts as also the conditions which apply to the installation of

these lifts. In addition EN81-50 defines how the inspection of lifts and testing of components must be carried out.

Of equal critical importance is the reminder that “Goods Hoists” technically no longer exist. The approximately 12 000

‘hoists’ installed in South Africa previously under the OHSAct Driven Machinery Regulations Section 17, now had their

controlling legislation repealed in terms of the new DMR published on 24th June 2015. Immediately from that date a

‘hoist’ as we knew it, could not longer be installed … ‘hoists’ were then redefined as access only goods lifts, governed

by SANS 1545:5. Incorporated into the latest OHSAct LEPC regulations, this standard is now the only valid standard for

goods-only-lifts. Each new unit now has to be registered with DoL (Department of Labour) under Annexure 1

(application notice for installation). Automatically these new units now have to be inspected by an AIA.

What happens to the ±12 000 ‘hoists’ installed previously? The Act clearly states that all ‘hoists’ installed before

30th September 2015 must comply to SANS 1454:5 within 5 years … that means by absolute latest 30th Septem-

ber 2020. Don’t leave it till then … be pro-active and start the modifications necessary to make your units compli-

ant now! … You have been warned … ignorance of the Law is no excuse!

FROM MY INSPECTION PORTFOLIO

Submitting photos such as for poor service and dangerous situations to Sanjeev for publishing on our LIASA website, has elicited the further need for a parallel portfolio of newsworthy photos and mini-articles, taken on our sojourns into the coun-try, that could be informative for our readers. Names and places of these scenarios can be left out to obviate any possible embarrassment, as the story and lesson is to be gleaned from the content of the photo and accompanying short explanation.

Please forward your contributions to Bonnie or Theo for illustration in future issues of Educom.

November Lift Inspector’s Course

Please take note, there are only 5 places left in the course commencing 7-11 November 2016. If you are interested in the course please send me your application forms as soon as possible to reserve your space.

With regard to your applications, attached please find ... “Short Learning Program (SLP): Lift Inspectors –

Preparation for Registration with ECSA”:

Application form to be completed (remember to attach a copy of your ID document)

Course information

Please take note of the following : 1. Please inform us if you no longer want to receive any correspondence from us. 2. Each course will consist of only 20 candidates, meaning early response is necessary. 3. We will inform you as soon as the course is full. If you have any further enquiry with regard to the above course, you are welcome to contact us.

Regards

Mariska Swartz

mailto:[email protected]


LOCAL INDEPENDENT

Part of the Cape Town service vehicle fleet, an indication of the investment towards long-term objectives of Nu-Line in South Africa to become a preferred lift service provider. They have al-ready branched out to all the ma-jor cities, with a current order book of 145 new lifts being in-stalled. We were shown around some really smart installations, as well as their head office and manufacturing plant at 33 Mansell Road in Killarney Gardens , Cape Town.

Nu-Line under CEO Allan Behr and a select group of associates saw a distinct gap in the South African lift in-dustry to market an international product but with a wide scope of personal design to suite any local customer’s needs. Importing only the critical equipment such as ma-chines, over-speed governors, safety gears, doors drives and landing door lock equipment, along with the necessary micro-processor controls, buttons and signals. The car and counterweights slings, car bodies, landing doors, etc, are all manufactured locally in Cape Town, allowing Nu-Line to meat practically all a customer’s requirements at an afford-able cost.

Above is a typical example where the mandate for this fu-turistic ‘Alexander Street’ project was a stand-alone circular shaft and round lift binding to the landings with an equally

circular inclined stairway.

We were pleasantly surprised with the number of staff in the head office manufacturing facility, from the design and drawing office right down to the shop floor.

Seen below is a further example of Nu-Line’s local design with this ‘shoebox-lid’ on top of a panoramic car inside a glass shaft. So-doing, the stainless steel design hides the entire top of car fixings and wirings. On lifting the gas-assisted trap-door, the lift will immediately only travel by inspection control. An innovation that we have not seen from any multi-national lift company.

Below is a dedicated car lift that takes a full 4x4 Bakkie

or SUV from ground floor to the basement parking. Three pairs of heavy-duty car guides keep it steady whilst the drive is gearless AC V3F underslung rope drive, making for spot-on floor leveling. We could not believe the contract installation cost for this installation, almost entirely manufactured locally. Proves once again that where

there is a will, there is a feasible and affordable solution!


NU-LINE CONTACT DETAILS Telephone: (021) 556-2595/4

Telefax: (021) 556-2593

PO Box 60088, Table View, 7439

[email protected]

Www.nu-line.co.za

Allen Behr - Managing Director ([email protected])

Ronney Behr - Sales Director, Local, National & International

([email protected])

Steven Nagy - Company Operations Director ([email protected])

Paul Clark - National Branch Director , all Nu-Line operations

outside Cape Town ([email protected])

Controller Manufacturing Workshop - seen here is a newly completed duplex control with two drives for an MRL AC V3F gearless installation being tested for total functionality and door drive operations. We saw six panel-wireman employed fulltime on con-troller manufacture. Not surprisingly, we met up with an old colleague from yesteryear, still from Ex-press Lift’s time, who is a full-time quality inspector on total in-house manufac-ture. Nothing goes to ship-ping from any workshop without a stamp of ap-proval.

Despatched to say Botswana, Kenya or Nigeria, there must be no manufacture come-backs.

The Heavy Steel Manufacturing Workshop where the Car and Cwt slings are pro-duced. Profile-cutters ensure spot-on design parameters for really profes-sional manufac-turing welding standards. This is important for the Funiculars, all manufactured locally. All the structural steel has to be galvanized for external installa-tion, mostly against the steep Cape Town mountain sides, in constant contact with the corrosive sea breezes. The panoramic views force the cars to be glass observation units. All the safety-glass is now sourced locally at reduced cost compared to export, obviously SABS tested and coded.


WHEN BIG IS REALLY B-I-G

LIASA AGM - Tuesday 11th October @ 09:00

All LIASA’s meetings will be held at the Jeppe Quondam Conference Centre. The ECSA LIRC meetings will gener-ally be held the previous day at ECSA, of which due notice will be given. In view of the diminishing Lift Inspector appli-cations, specific dates were not preset for LIRC for 2016. The writing is therefore on the wall to promote registration as Lift Inspectors amongst our lift fraternity colleagues.

Last course for this year is …

7 to 11 November with the exam on 26th November.

Please Note: It has taken some serious marketing in the past to get the minimum stipulated group of 15, otherwise the course would have been cancelled for that week. Application forms are now available for the July course from Antoinette or Mariska Swartz, who will distribute them on request to all relevant persons ... or obtain them from Bonnie. Apply now or loose out for 2016 ...

[email protected] [email protected]

TUT RLI COURSES 2016 LIASA & LIRC COMMIT-TEE MEETINGS 2016

Our Free State engineering colleague although retired, is still fascinated by exceptional engineering disciplines, in this case gigantean machines. He writes that where we though our local ‘Big-foot’ 4x4 was big, its not even in the same class as the ‘Bigfoot’ left. The nuclear accelerator (right) puts our South African riggers to shame when one considers the art of moving such a massive machine in Europe, both from a weight and length perspective.

MASSIVE STEAM TURBINE

From the write-up, this appears to be a steam turbine, destined for a European city where it is to be in-stalled. Apart from the weight is-sues that damage the tar road sur-faces, we believe that damage to the actual machine must also come into the equation because the op-erational and manufacturing speci-fications are so tight. Perhaps Eugene Ferreira, our power-station fundi can give us more information in this regard.



LIASA CONTACT DETAILS

Bonnie Peden - National Executive Secretary

Office: (011) 907-0133 - Telefax: (011) 907-0131

E-Mail: [email protected]

Website Address: www.iliasa.org.za

PO Box 531, Alberton, 1450

LIASA in 1995, to qualify for ECSA (Engineering Council) recognition as a ‘Voluntary Association’ (VA - Article 21 Association), formal Arti-cles of Association were required, along with a formalized membership struc-ture. These were drawn up by founder members Dr Theo Kleinhans and Steve le Roux. Steve was elected as Chairman of the National Executive Commit-tee in Gauteng, with Theo as Executive Secretary-Treasurer; Mike Russell as Regional Chairman Western Cape and Graham Mould as Regional Chair-man Eastern Cape. Natal and the Free State were vacant at that time.

The LIASA membership has regrettably reduced to 145 paid-up mem-bers, possibly due to the curtailing forces of the SANAS accreditation.

New LIASA membership cards have again been issued to all payed up members. Please check with Bonnie if you have not received your latest card, making sure that you are indeed paid up. Remember that proof has to be retained in case you are called on to present them to ECSA. Membership of LIASA ensures an ECSA subscription rebate more than equal to the LIASA subscription, being a motivator to engender or retain LIASA membership. □

EDUCOM COMMUNICATIONS

Educom’s contact logistics, where you speak to …

The Editor - Bonnie Peden

Office: (011) 907-0133

Telefax: (011) 907-0131

E-mail: [email protected]

PO Box 531, Alberton, 1450

Please forward us your newsworthy articles and photos for dis-

sémination to all our colleagues around the RSA.

Articles contributed to Educom are evaluated by ECSA as CPD, assisting you to achieve your minimum 5 points per year, avera-ged out over 5-year rolling periods. Remember that …

« Ignorance of FACT is NO excuse for any stated non-compliance »

« Liberty means responsibility -

That is why most men dread it »

George Bernard Shaw

We are on the Web - go to … www.iliasa.org.za

The web is maintained by LIASA Chairman Sanjeev Singh for the members’ benefit

NEW ‘POOR SERVICE’ &

‘DANGEROUS SITUATION’ WEB

Immediate past LIASA chairman Sanjeev Singh originally

set up and now maintains our LIASA website as a free ser-

vice to our members.

We have for several years been discussing at the general

LIASA meetings, the need for a system to record through

examples of on-site photos where situations indicate an ab-

solute lack of service, possibly to the point of being danger-

ous. Articles by Ronnie Branders and Willem du Toit in the

December issue high-lighted this claimed poor service.

You are hereby requested to assist us by building up

such a LIASA web library by sending your photos di-

rect to Sanjeev at ... [email protected].

All submissions will be treated in the strictest of confidence.

We anticipate a short technical description with each photo

to highlight the suggested regulatory, standards or safety

non-compliance. Please treat this as serious, for we need

your inputs.

LIASA WEBSITE

LIASA AGM Tuesday 11th October 2016

NOMINATIONS for 2016 < 2017

The National Management and Executive Commit-

tee have all indicated there willingness to stand for

an additional year to October 2017.

Vacancies however exist for the Regional Chair-

man Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Free

State, for which nominations are invited.

Nominations are also invited, supplying name and

reason for your nomination …

Doyen of the Year Award.

Most Improved Junior Member Award.

Please remember that nominations must reach Bon-

nie by absolute latest Friday 9th September for the

above vacancies and nominations.


http://www.iliasa.org.za/


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