What You’ll Learn

This webinar provides performance requirements for coatings and linings used on sound concrete substrates in principal service environments of areas of a municipal wastewater treatment facility, including:

• Collection systems (manholes, lift stations, pump stations, tunnels and interceptors);
• Preliminary treatment systems (grit chambers, headworks and screening structures);
• Primary treatment systems (sedimentation tanks and primary clarifiers);
• Secondary treatment systems (aeration basins, secondary clarifiers, chlorine contact chambers and oxygenation chambers);
• Advanced treatment systems (filtration units);
• Solids handling areas (digesters and dewatering structures); and
• Chemical storage (secondary containment structures).

Expert Presenter

Shields is a principal consultant for Corrosion Probe, providing instruction, coating and corrosion surveys, specifications development, project management, failure investigations, expert witness testimony, and other related services.

Based in Weston, FL, he has been a consultant for more than 26 years. Before that, he worked for an industrial painting contractor as a project manager.

Shields holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering construction technology from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Active in both SSPC and NACE International, he is an instructor for several SSPC courses, including BCI and Bridge Maintenance: Conducting Coating Assessments.

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