These courses are offered prior to the annual conference to help you make the best use of your travel time and money. If you wish to book a sleeping room, it is necessary to make those arrangements outside of the Conference Housing Bureau. Rooms through the Bureau are only available over conference dates.
How do you do this?
• Call the Hilton directly at 504-561-0500 to see if they have availability
• Do not identify yourself with the NACE conference or you will be directed to contact the conference housing bureau
What if the Hilton doesn't have any sleeping rooms or the rate is too high?
• You can easily do some investigation on your own by going to the New Orleans Visitor and Convention website
• Look for a hotel in the "Warehouse/Arts District", the "Central Business District" and even the "French Quarter"
What if I also want to attend CORROSION 2008?
• Book your room at a hotel that still has rooms for the nights of the conference
• Call the hotel direct to ask them if you can add the additional nights onto your reservation and not change rooms
Courses
Corrosion Control in the Refining Industry
5-Day Course • March 12-16,
2008
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
New Orleans, Louisiana
This course provides an overview of refinery process units and specific process descriptions. It also focuses on the examination and identification of metallurgical problems that occur in process units. Individuals benefitting from this course are those with a minimum of 1-2 years experience in refineries including: design engineers, process engineers, procurement agents, maintenance planners, service company representatives who support refineries, corrosion and equipment engineers, metallurgists, inspectors, and inspection supervisors.
5-Day Course • March 12-16,
2008
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
New Orleans, Louisiana
The S-CAT course is one of the newest courses launched by NACE International. This five-day course provides a foundation of coatings, corrosion, and corrosion control knowledge for assessing the condition of tanks and other structures. In addition, the assessor learns practical guidelines for surveying and evaluating the condition of the protective coating system on marine vessels. This course is beneficial to coating inspectors, shipyard planners, design engineers, port engineers, and type commander representatives.
1-Day Course • March 15, 2008
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
New Orleans
In this course, participants who have completed CIP Level 1 receive specific training related to coating inspection of bridges. The course focuses on coating application of bridges and the role of the bridge coating inspector in the quality control process. To better meet the training requirements of bridge coating inspectors for state and provincial Departments of Transportation (DOT), the course was recently revised with the assistance of representatives from various DOTs, including New Jersey, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Texas, Louisiana, and Nova Scotia, as well as the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority.
