Tokyo Cement to revolutionise construction industry

The Tokyo Cement Group held a ‘Masons Seminar’ in Kurunegala recently.

The seminar was a resounding success with the masons in the area expressing their profound gratitude to Tokyo Cement for their beneficial initiative.

“Tokyo Cement always has our best interests at heart; we receive tea, lunch and gifts worth the day’s wage and we are losing by attending the workshop.

However, even if this wasn’t the case, we would never grudge missing a day’s wage by attending this workshop because we learn so much,” said Ampitiye Dharmasiri, a mason.

Tokyo Cement has conducted quality assurance seminars for masons for the past 11 years, in various parts of the country.

The objective of these seminars is to upgrade the masons’ technical knowledge and skills level by enlightening them on the standards of cement in general, how to identify good cement, the current types of cement available in the market, the correct application and use of varying types of cement to cater to different requirements and best practices on how to maintain high quality in cement.

As most masons practise the traditional methods used by their seniors which are most often incorrect, Tokyo Cement seeks to rectify this situation by breaking the cycle.

Consultant Engineer, Mouly Gooneratne who has been an integral part of this program from the very beginning said, ‘Most masons start out as ‘golayas’ and learn under the ‘head baas’, who is usually not correctly versed in the latest trends and practices of the industry.

With this program the systems which prevailed for generations are corrected accordingly by educating them to look for standard and quality to increase the overall quality of building and architecture, that will last for more than a lifetime’.