8 April 2009
First meeting of the UKTA Forum
The UKTA Forum will meet on 8th April at 10:30am in the BINDT Conference Room, 1 Spencer Parade, Northampton NN1 5AA
The areas scheduled for attention include:
1. Drafting terms of reference
2. Improving communication with members
3. Advising BINDT on services to offer to members such as Group Insurance
4. Raising awareness of regulations currently being drafted
5. Raising awareness of Government Policy and influencing Policy formulation
6. Technical developments in thermography
7. Organising Conferences and Presentations
8. Identify research requirements
9. Advising on Training and Certification requirements and syllabus
10. Promoting Thermography to end users
11. Identifying any other areas which require attention
Subsequently it will meet on the first Wednesday on or after the 7th of each quarter, that is 8th July, 7th October 2009 and 13th January 2010.
24 February 2009 - UKTA Forum
The meeting on 4 February resolved to make some changes to improve benefits to Mmebers. A new Forum is being set up. It will be the job of the 'UKTA Forum' as it has been named, to develop a programme of work to implement with BINDT and to promote to the wider thermography community.
4 February 2009 Public Meeting - A New Focus for UKTA
A meeting was held in Northampton on Wednesday 4th February 2009 to discuss the future of the UK Thermography Association (UKTA).
The UK Thermography Association, founded in 1997, has achieved much in the promotion of high standards of thermography. It has developed a community of thermographers, run its own conference and joined with BINDT to present thermography at their conferences, produced codes of practice on innovative methods for building and electrical surveys and worked with Government Departments to get thermography mentioned in Building Regulations.
UKTA has always had an international membership with members in Ireland, France, Germany, Australia and the Far East. It has had close relationships with Associations in Europe and Worldwide and this has assisted in developing International Standards for thermography.
It is felt that the time is right to develop the UKTA into an international community for everyone involved or interested in the science and practice of thermography. The applications of infra-red thermography are quite diverse and not restricted to engineering and the built environment. It is already being used in healthcare, veterinary diagnosis and arboreal management. As the science of thermography and the capability of its instrumentation continue to develop we are likely to see more applications emerge.
The purpose of the new ‘thermography community’ is to create a dynamic and vibrant environment for scientists, engineers and practitioners to help them keep at the forefront of the science and practice of thermography. The new community will act as a forum for the exchange of knowledge and the dissemination of information through meetings, conferences, seminars, web and print publications.
There are opportunities over the next few months and years to guide the thermography industry to meet the needs of the people who use thermography and to make the best use of developments that are coming out of academic and research institutes.
We believe there is a great opportunity to advance the science and practice of thermography and it is important that as many interested parties as possible attend this meeting to help shape the future for the thermography community.
If you want to know more, please contact Cindy Bailey cindy.bailey@bindt.org at BINDT on 01604 630124
13 June 2008 Message from The Chairman
I would like to thank the UKTA members for electing me as Chairman for 2008-9. I intend to continue the work of the outgoing Committee and introduce some changes to provide more benefits for members and raise the profile of UKTA in UK industry including the following proposals to be considered by the Committee at its next meeting
3 September 2008:
1. Working closely with members to meet their needs
2. Introduction of attainable Certification in Building Energy Efficiency Thermography
3. Establishing regional groups so members can meet more easily
4. Revitalising our application user groups
5. Working more closely with BINDT
6. Working more closely with Association of European Thermographers
7. Organising a Thermography Conference 2-4 April 2009 at Oxford
12 June 2008 New Committee elected at AGM
The AGM elected the following new Management Committee:
Colin Pearson (Chairman)
Stewart Little (Vice Chairman)
Richard Wallace
David Blain and
Kevin Howell (Medical) .
19 January 2008 New DRAFT Electrical Code of Practice
A draft Code of Practice has been placed on this site for comment. CP 304 Electrical Thermography - Safe Boundary
26 April 2007 New International Standards proposed
The following new work
item proposals for the ISO Technical Committee Subcommittee 8, Thermography, TC135/SC8 have been circulated for voting:
• Standard guide for examining electrical installations with infrared
thermography (WEE/46_07_0083)
• Infrared thermography in nondestructive testing – Characters of
equipment and system (WEE/46_07_0084)
• Standard terminology for infrared thermography in nondestructive testing
(WEE/46_07_0085)
• Standard guide of non-destructive testing with infrared thermography
(WEE/46_07-0086)
These would be extremely useful Standards for many UKTA members. UKTA will contribute to the drafting of these standards. Any members who wish to have a say should contact the ukta committee ukta@ukta.org
27 February 2007- UKTA AGM scheduled for 11 July.
Most pages updated
12 January 2007- IR- Information pages enhanced
Introduction to thermography section introduced to UKTA website see IR- Learning pages
20 December 2006 - Thermography Handbook links on IR Bookshop Page
The Thermography Handbook Volumes 1 & 2 are now available through links from the IR Bookshp page. These books are intended to provide the information needed by thermographers taking courses at Level I and Level II as well as providing reference material for practising thermographers.
7 December 2006 - Newsletter 27 published in member area of website
This service can now locate your local thermographer in the UK, an UKTA member who can provide a thermography service
This new service aims to put customers in touch with an UKTA member who can provide a thermography service
19 July 2006 - UKTA AGM re-elects management committee
After a successful year in which the profile of UKTA was raised,
prticularly in the civil thermography arena, the management committee has been re-elected with a mandate to further raise the profile and increase the membership of UKTA
21 June 2006 - Newsletter 26 published in member area of website
20 December 2005 - NPL want your views on the 2007 -2010 Thermal Programme!
This is your chance to influence the formulation of this new DTI funded programme
Click here to learn about the Thermal Programme, or attend a Focus Group
7 September 2005 - Issue 3 / 2005 of Thermology International is out now!
View the abstracts here
8 February 2005 - The 6th Course on the Theory and Practice of Infra Red Thermal Imaging in Medicine
This course takes place at the University of Glamorgan 29 June - 1st July 2005. Read more information on the course website here
8 February 2005 - The UKTA AGM will be on 19th July at the Condition Monitoring 2005 Conference, King's College Cambridge at 12 noon
14 January 2005 - Building Thermography meeting
International meeting at NPL 23 February (£15 discount for UKTA members) more details and registration form here
12 June 2004 - New
UKTA website
If you are reading this you have found the upgraded
UKTA website full of new features. more
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