Ethics Instructor-SENA
On October 3, 1968 “date chosen by the SENA and the British Embassy,”
was born Pilot Casting Center, now known as Comprehensive Maintenance
Industrial Center. That was 40 years ago.
It’s funny, but this is not easy to find any record, there is hardly a
mention in the record 270 of June 10, 1970, SENA Sectional Council,
which warns that were present at the ceremony was Minister of Overseas
England and Colombian government officials.
The track is lost after the September 25, 1968, when after inspecting
the work, Rodolfo Martinez Tono, national director, declared that the
opening would be on 3 October 1969 or January, with the presence of
President Carlos Lleras Restrepo. The option was the first.
The Regional Santander Sena, or what was mentioned as a regional
Bucaramanga and was 10 years old, was born on March 11, 1958 and this
was perhaps his first great challenge.
It had been almost four years since Mr. Norman E. Langdale, head of
the technical mission of England, a professional mechanical engineer and
metal came to Bucaramanga to present the initiative of a school of
casting, with an area of 2,700 meters, 15 workshops, classrooms,
administration offices, cafeteria, social services and second effort in a
sports area and a pool. The workshop separate classrooms to avoid the
noise, as seen today.
“Bucaramanga requires a cast center, due to the state it is the metal
industry, trying to move from light industry to heavy industry. Once
the center is operating, there will be a great achievement for
Bucaramanga. (166 minutes January 20, 1965 Regional Council SENA).
For this required the participation of the Division of Engineering
and Architecture of the National and the entire team of professionals to
design the award and of course the achievement of the land suitable for
this work, in which effort was the national director and and was
recognized: “The Council Sectional SENA Santander, places on record its
appreciation for the magnificent reception given at the National
Directorate of SENA, a pilot project for the sectional cast of Santander
and is grateful to Dr . Rodolfo Martinez effective management tone that
was good enough to advance to obtain the help of the government of
England …. ” (166 minutes January 20, 1965 Sectional Council SENA).
The first land visited to erect the building were located near
Trefilco Pigs and adjacent to the defunct company Funimag (today
work-Transaxle Dana), but the purchase of land had to be done under the
supervision of the National Directorate for which arrived in Bucaramanga
Cediel engineers and Robertulio Heberto Gonzalez. The money needed to
purchase was $ 1,500,000, would be sought by way of loan to the Bolivar
Insurance Company “for the purchase of the lot to the Pilot Center of
Foundry and to meet the initial costs of building and the same …” . (Act
172 of March 31, 1965).
None of the farms classified. On 12 May 1965 approved the purchase of
one million pesos, a lot located “near the intersection of Highway
Bucaramanga, Girón, with the road under construction Café
Madrid-Floridablanca at a rate of $ 10 per square meter and a room
approximately 10 acres, as proposed by Bernabé Angulo Prada and Evil.
After approval of the national delegates, the appraisal of the
Institute Agustín Codazzi and the technical concept of the Comptroller
General of the Republic, agreed to the delivery of deposit to vendors
totaling $ 250,000 and gave powers to the director Sectional to advance
relevant documents.
In June of that year Mr. Langdale returns to Bucaramanga to take
charge of the project and in September received a visit from Secretary
of the Ministry of Development English and the first secretary of the
British Embassy, who bring the purpose of providing the name of his
government the necessary equipment for the Center Foundry.
It is inevitable then hiring a mechanical engineer and a designer
preferably as assistants Mr Langdale. Mario J. Peñas, then a recent
graduate of the Universidad Industrial de Santander, who later became
the first director of the Pilot Center Foundry, was hired for the job
The process was launched and in May 1966 and there were initial
architectural plans, has since suggested channeling the stream of the
Church. By October 1966 he was awarded the contract for studies and the
structural calculations, Pedro García Arenas assigned a value of $
6,930. Similarly needed hydraulic studies that would allow channeling of
rain water, channeling of streams and sanitary facilities, which were
assigned to Jorge Alberto Chacon, valued at $ 12,805 and performed by
Jorge Chavez at a cost of $ 237,000
Everything was going so fast, so much that they even proposed the
first floor staff, composed basically of a center director, a molding
and casting instructor and a pattern shop, as well as a mecanotaquígrafa
and a watchman.
Made the necessary processes, topographic maps known to the nod for
the National Directorate of SENA is the adjudication process, being
handed the work for construction firm Villalba Martinez & Co., whose
proposal was the best fit to Final averages and announcing the arrival
of a consignment from Inglatera machinery and equipment supplied. (Act
218, May 16, 1967).
Everything was ready … better, almost ready, all we needed was a
bridge that would bypass the gorge of the Church, which until then with
their large, limited any learning activity. For the construction of the
bridge the town of Giron is declared without resources, which the Head
of Valuation Departmental Santander offers to SENA alliance with foundry
Funimaq to take forward the initiative, which had an estimated cost of $
105,000, of SENA which would provide $ 35,000 (record 225, November 29,
1967).
Come sing the recruitment of the grid with the signing Gomez and
Arango for $ 216.805.47 and the paving of the access awarded to Mr.
Antonio Niño worth $ 26.83 per square meter, for a total $ 100,000 and
one year warranty.
Thus, after this process, many comings and bickering, the effort and
the management of many leading Santander, on October 3, 1968 created the
National School of Foundry, now known as the Comprehensive Maintenance
Industrial Center. That was 40 years ago …
