Preparations for the Concrete Manu-
and initiatives, Monique Eggebeen, the
• Technical Excellence Award
facturers Association’s Awards for
Echo Group’s Managing Director, who
• Innovation Award
Excellence competition, in which the
chairs the CMA’s awards committee,
• Precast for Life Award
best products and other innovations and
outlined the plans that have been put
The competition rules allow for more
developments relating to precast con-
in place for the competition, which will
than one entry per competitor – in the
crete are showcased and given worthy
culminate in the award presentations in
same categories and/or in different ones.
recognition, are well underway.
February 2016.
Eggebeen urged CMA members to
At the CM A’s Feedback Session
A list of award categories has been
come forward with entries and also in-
to update members on progress with
drawn up by the committee. These are sub-
vited nominations for judges. The panel of
the association’s various programmes
ject to possible change in response to re-
six to eight judges will comprise mostly
quests or suggestions by CMA members.
presidents of various industry-related
The six award categories are applica-
The awards gala event is set for
sections, Building and Infrastructure,
February 20 at a venue in Gauteng still
resulting in a total of 12 awards – except
to be arranged.
in the unlikely event of the panel of judges
Those serving on the awards com-
deciding not to make an award in a par-
mittee with Eggebeen are John Cairns,
ticular instance.
a Consultant and former Director of the
The award categories as currently
Monique Eggebeen
associations.
ble to both of the industry’s major sub-
CMA, Kgomotso Modise, Operations
envisaged are:
Director of the Echo Group, Vincent
• Aesthetic Award
Erasmus, Key Accounts Manager of PPC
• Sustainability Award
and Gert van Wyk, Marketing Manager of
• Community Upliftment Award
the Bosun Group.
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