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CPAA Certified Concrete Pipe Training Courses

Do you or your team need more confidence when specifying or installing concrete pipes?

Humes is offering FREE CPAA-Certified Training Sessions across New Zealand — designed to be practical, relevant, and easy to apply to real projects.

Who should attend?

  • Council Engineers and Asset Managers
  • Consultants and Infrastructure Designers
  • Contractors and Site Supervisors involved in pipeline installation

"We extend an invitation to you and your team to the one and only certified Concrete Pipe Installation Training Courses in New Zealand," says Amanda Choi, Technical Sales Engineer for Humes. "The course is designed for Engineers. including infrastructure designers, consultants, installers and contractors and covers the general New Zealand market, pipe technologies and common practices that CPAA promotes in Australia and New Zealand."

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Course agenda: 

  • Overview on the pipe installation process: Flexible and rigid pipes; Load Class and markings and NZS 3725 introduction.
  • Pre-Construction: Delivery inspection: Manufacturing defects acceptance; Storage and stringing; Stacking requirement; Moving and handling and Lifting methods.
  • Load Types: Dead loads; Live loads: Construction loads; and PipeClass3* introduction. 
  • Trench/Embankment Construction: Correct bedding; Support Types; Backfills; Compaction requirements and other good practices.
  • Laying Concrete Pipe: top-up pipes, Rubber ring types; Joint types; Fitting rubber rings and Curved concrete pipes.
  • Field assessment: Visual inspections; Soil density and Joint testing.
  • Cracking and Defects: Self-healing, Circumferential cracking and Longitudinal cracking. 

Want to know more? Contact Amanda Choi, Technical Sales Engineer for Humes.

Call Amanda on 027 293 2611 or Email Amanda.Choi@humes.co.nz 

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