Peter Charles Becker (1941 to 2013)

摘要

It was with great sadness that I learnt of the passing away of Peter Becker on 11 December 2013. I first met Peter in the very early 1990s when he was part of the roadshow for SAICE's Civil Engineering Quantities 1990, a document which he had drafted for use in everyday civil engineering practice. Peter spent a lifetime working on standardising specifications for civil engineering construction and methods of measurement. He worked in the 1970s in the Ninham Shand Cape Town office under AL Robinson, who was instrumental in the conceptualisation of the standardised specifications for civil engineering under the auspices of SAICE. These specifications were eventually published by the South African Bureau of Standards as SABS 1200 Standardised Specifications for Civil Engineering Construction. He took over the baton from his mentor and continued with the development and updating of SABS 1200. He was also involved in the early 2000s in the development of the SANS 2001 Standards for Construction Works. In 2007, ICE-SA (a joint division of SAICE and the Institution of Civil Engineers UK) brought Peter out of his retirement to assist with the finalisation of the Civil Engineering Standard System Method of Measurement (CESMM3) - Southern African Edition.