Seminar - Hot-dip galvanizing: technical and performance aspects
This seminar covers all technical galvanization-related aspects, while providing participants with a comprehensive understanding of treatment and design objectives and methods.
Seminar objectives
At the end of this seminar, the participant will be able to:
- Recognize the corrosion problem that America faces and analyze the type of environment in which steel will be installed
- Understand the hot-dip galvanizing process
- Incorporate proper corrosion protection in the design of steel products, which in turn significantly reduces maintenance costs
- Learn the key elements of designing steel structure parts compatible with hot-dip galvanizing
- Select steel that is compatible with hot-dip galvanizing
- Understand the limitations of the hot-dip galvanizing process
Seminar content
Analysis of corrosion problems:
- Infrastructure
- Exposed structures
- Equipment
Hot-dip galvanizing processes:
- Different zinc coating methods
Design:
- Specifications and standards
- Steel selection
Inspection:
- Specifications and standards
- Types of problems
Duplex galvanizing system vs. paint:
- Type of application
- Specifications and standards
- Advantages
- Life cycle vs. cost
Hands on case study:
- Revision of technical case study
Type of seminar
- Seminar only
- Industrial visit and seminar combo
Location of the seminar
- At Corbec's head office
- At your factory or your offices
Seminar duration
Plan for 1 hour and 30 minutes for the technical seminar and 2 hours and 15 minutes for the industrial visit and seminar combo.
Target clientele for this seminar
Engineers, specifiers, architects who wish to deepen their overall knowledge of hot-dip galvanizing.
Trainer - Godfroy St-Pierre
A graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal in urban planning, he also holds a minor in civil engineering from École Polytechnique. He worked for 2 years as a plant manager, 15 years in sales as director and vice president, and since 2018 he has been president of the company.
He is member of the AGA (American Galvanizers Association) and an active member on many of the association’s technical committees. He is chairman of the marketing committee for the Canadian region and also on the board of the association. He is also president of the Quebec rebar institute since 2014.
Mr. St-Pierre is an active member of the CSCE (Canadian Society for Civil Engineering), as well as the CISC (Canadian Institute of Steel Construction). He sits on several technical subcommittees of these associations.
To date, he has held over 40 technical seminars for different groups of engineers and architects. He has also organized a series of technical training sessions for engineers, plant and construction site inspectors for Hydro Québec.