Position:

• Professor
• Director of CoMSIRU
• Deputy Dean: Research and Strategic Innovation

Email: 

• hans.beushausen@uct.ac.za

Office: 

• Room 3.44, New Engineering Building; UCT Upper Campus

Qualifications:

• PhD (UCT)
• MSc (UCT)
• Dipl.-Ing. (HAW)

Professional Affiliations: 

• RILEM (International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures); regional convener for sub-Saharan Africa and member of several technical committees
• fib (International Federation for Structural Concrete); head of the national member group South Africa and member of several task groups
• Concrete Society of Southern Africa (CSSA)
• Editor of the technical journal Concrete Plant International

Undergraduate Teaching: 

• CIV1006S (Building Science)
• CIV2042F (Construction Materials)
• CIV3049S (Structural Design I)
• CIV4045F (Structural Design II)

Postgraduate Teaching: 

• CIV5002Z (Structural Concrete Properties and Practice)
• CIV5138Z (Deterioration and Condition Assessment of Concrete Structures)
• CIV5139Z (Repair and Rehabilitation of Concrete Structures)

Research Affiliations: 

• Concrete Materials and Structural Integrity Research Unit (CoMSIRU)

Publication Profile: 

• Google Scholar

Research Interests:

• Durability of reinforced concrete structures, i.e. material aspects and durability testing, service life modelling, design and specification, reinforcement corrosion initiation and propagation
• Performance assessment of concrete structures
• Repair systems for concrete structures damaged by reinforcement corrosion
• Bonded concrete overlays, i.e. bond strength issues, stresses due to differential volume changes, specification and performance of concrete patch repair systems
• Innovative concrete materials