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The Southern African Institute of Steel Construction (SAISC) is an organization which helps building and construction in South Africa by serving to promote and develop companies providing steel-related products and services to the industry. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= vision and mission of the SA Institute of Steel Construction )〕 ==History== The institute was founded on 24 March 1956 when South Africa was still a Union under the Nationalist Government. It was known as the Structural Steel Publicity and Advanced Association Limited. The first meeting of the association took place on 12 September 1956 in Johannesburg in the Barclay Bank building which stood on the corner of Commissioner and Market Streets. The staff consisted on a single engineer offering his services on a part-time with a membership of 18 members.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Southern African Institute of Steel Construction )〕 As a result of World War II, the cheapness of concrete enabled it to encroach upon work which until previously had been the domain of the steel industry. The institute was born to rectify this situation. In 1958 the association started to receive copies of publications from Belgium and Luxemburg, and the American Institute of Steel started to sent their journal. The association found themselves on the mailing list for Acier-Stahl-Steel a steel-structure based journal in three languages. The board management found this journal to be so informative that it sponsored the circulation of the journal to engineers and architects to promote publicity, something that continued until the demise of the journal. In 1960 the institute employed an engineer, Mr Robert McHalfie-Clarke, on a part-time basis. Scottish and born in 1906 McHalfie-Clarke was a consulting engineer who specialised in structural steel design. Some of his structures including Iscor head office in Pretoria and Newcastle as well as the Norwich Union Building in Pretoria. He was to remain on the scene until 1976 when Dr. Hennie de Clercq took the over the reigns. At the 5th annual general meeting a resolution was placed before members that the name of the company be changed. In 1961, the institute changed its name to the 'South African Institute of Steel Construction, and more recently the Southern African Institute of Steel Construction. Today the institute has over 600 members.〔(Pretorius, R. November 6, 2013. Steel construction volume 37 No. 6. pp 10 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southern African Institute of Steel Construction」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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