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Pressure Management and Pressure Reducing Valves

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The Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent (MISA) in partnership with SAICE-PDP, invites you to attend this 2-day course to help candidates learn how to use pressure reducing valves, to reduce leakage from water reticulation systems, whilst ensuring that a minimum level of pressure is maintained to consumers.

Attend this course and learn about:
  • The principles of pressure management.
  • The use of smart controllers.
  • Factors to consider when selecting a control valve.
  • Sizing of pressure reducing valves (PRVs).
  • The design of PRV chambers.
  • Practical network design tips.
Benefits include:
  • Acquire the knowledge, concepts and principles of water conservation and demand management.
  • Broaden your knowledge of best practices in the field of leak detection and pressure management.
  • Become acquainted with the appropriate equipment to select for managing zones, logging and ensuring pressure reduction.
The course helps municipal attendees apply their theoretical training in practice and recommended for:
  • Managers in water service departments
  • Engineers, technologists and technicians responsible for pressure management, and those involved in operations and maintenance of water networks

CPD

This course is accredited with:

  • ECSA (Engineering Council of South Africa) and carries 2 CPD credits.

Please bring the following to the course:

  • Scientific calculator
  • Pencil and eraser
  • Scale ruler

For online courses, it is recommended to have the following installed on your computer:

  • MS Excel
  • The Zoom app

Please note the following requirements:

  • Delegates are responsible to ensure that they have sufficient data to cover the full duration of the online course.
  • According to the ECSA requirements for online training, a compulsory online assessment must be completed.
  • To receive a CPD certificate a 75% pass mark is required. Less than 75% will result in an attendance certificate which can be submitted for IPD.

Our Facilitators

Ronnie Mckenzie

PhD, BSc (Civil), PrEng, CEng, MICE, FSAICE, FWISA, FIWA

Dr Ronnie Mckenzie is a civil engineer with over 40 years of experience in water resources and water loss management. With a BSc in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Water Resources Planning, he has led major leakage reduction and pressure control initiatives since introducing BABE procedures to South Africa in 1994. He developed widely used leakage benchmarking software and Water Research Commission models, contributed to landmark projects including Khayelitsha and Sebokeng/Evaton, delivered over 80 workshops worldwide, supported organisations such as the World Bank, EIB, UN, MWA of Thailand, and GiZ. Ronnie is a fellow of the International Water Association, WISA and SAICE and has received many national and international awards for his work in both water resource planning and water loss management.

In-house courses can be arranged.

Contact Phathi Masimirembwa at [email protected] for more information.
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