CSSA Honorary Member Elected Chairman of C&CI

Congratulations to Prof Mark Alexander, Honorary Member of the Concrete Society, who has been elected chairman of the Cement & Concrete Institute (C&CI).

Mark, who is professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cape Town, teaches and researches cement and concrete materials, with specific interests in concrete durability and repair and rehabilitation of concrete structures.

He acts as a specialist consultant to the industry on concrete materials problems and co-authored Aggregates in Concrete (2005), and Alkali-Aggregate Reaction and Structural Damage to Concrete (2011).

He is also active in international scientific circles, and is presently Vice-President of RILEM, a Paris-based international organisation concerned with construction materials and structures.

Mark has had a long association with the C&CI and with its predecessor, the Portland Cement Institute (PCI).  The erstwhile Director of the PCI, the late Dr Derek Davis, took a personal interest in the young academic and researcher, and later collaborated with Mark on research into concrete aggregates.

The new C&CI chairman has worked with every director of the PCI/C&CI since, and was the doctoral supervisor for Dr Graham Grieve, and the late Dr Brian Addis, both of whom had long and fruitful careers with the C&CI.

Prof Alexander pictured at the Institute’s recent AGM being

congratulatedby the former chairman, Dr Hylton Macdonald (right)