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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon PITT, AO Born: Engineer In 1922 he, like his colleagues EDWARDS and STUBBS, left the employ of TUSCON and established in Durban The Concrete Engineering Department of HUNT, LEUCHARS AND HEPBURN LTD (later HL&H CONCRETE ENGINEERS LTD). It opened its Johannesburg office under the management of – then unusual for the time – a woman, one Mrs Bell. With TRUSCO and the REINFORCING STEEL COMPANY they established reinforced concrete as a standard construction material in South Africa. [FREEDMAN, R. 1964. Structural concrete in South Africa. Johannesburg: SA Reinforced Concrete Engineers Ass. p. 47.] All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.