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Heritage Australia presents two awards for meritorious work towards the conservation of
Engineering Heritage in Australia. These awards presented by Engineers Australia,
Australia's peak body in the profession, bring recognition to those individuals and
organisations who have committed time, effort and money to saving the significant works
that engineers and the like have created and developed before our time.
The awards are :
previous
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National President Peter
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John Monash
Medal |
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THE JOHN MONASH MEDAL FOR ENGINEERING HERITAGE
The award recognises an individual
who has made, over a considerable period of time, an outstanding contribution to
engineering heritage in Australia through one or more of the following:
· the raising of awareness of engineering heritage within the profession
· the promotion of engineering heritage within the community
· the recording and documentation of engineering heritage
· the conservation of engineering heritage
· such other contribution to engineering heritage as Engineering Heritage
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The award takes the
form of a bronze medal and a certificate, and is made annually.
The award is open to any individual and is not
limited to engineers or members of Engineers Australia. The first award was made in 2003.
The medal perpetuates the memory of Sir John
Monash who is recognised as Australia's greatest military commander, and an engineer of
exceptional and diverse talents. In 1921 Sir
John Monash was appointed Chairman of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria and was
responsible for the Latrobe Valley power scheme. Engineers
Australia awarded him the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal in 1929.
Initially the Monash Medal was awarded to the best
paper on engineering related to General Engineering interests. Awards were made from 1979
to about 1995 when the General College was discontinued. In 2002 Council approved a
re-designation of the medal as an award for outstanding achievement in engineering
heritage.
Advertisements calling for nominations normally
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Colin Crisp Award |
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THE COLIN CRISP AWARD FOR ENGINEERING HERITAGE
The Colin Crisp Award is Australia’s
premier award for excellence in Engineering Heritage projects. It is awarded biennially at
the National Engineering Heritage Conference.
The Award is made by Engineering Heritage Australia, a special interest group of
Engineers Australia.
Criteria for the Award
An award shall be for demonstrated excellence through one or more of the following
activities -
- Conservation of an engineering work of historic or heritage significance (in this
context conservation includes maintenance and may include preservation, restoration,
reconstruction, and adaptation)
- Engineering work that facilitates or is essential to the successful conservation of an
historic or heritage work, including machinery, structures, buildings or electrical
equipment
- Education, or the creation of awareness in engineering history or heritage
- Such other endeavour related to engineering history or heritage, deemed by the
Subcommittee to be worthy.
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COLIN CRISP
Colin Crisp,
who died in May 1991, was a structural engineer who, as principal of the consulting firm
McBean and Crisp, was well-known for his work in the conservation of heritage structures.
In this field, he had a long association with the National Trust (NSW) to the extent that
the Trust awarded him the title of its Honorary Consulting Engineer from 1968 to 1989. The
number of buildings and other structures that he was associated with was very extensive
but he is noted for his work on the Sydney GPO and Tathra Wharf, on the NSW South Coast.
Colin was chairman of the steering committee of the Warren Centre for the Advanced
Engineering project: "The Economic Recycling and Conservation of Structures" in
1990. He was a member of the Engineering Heritage Committee of Sydney Division of the
Institution of Engineers, Australia, from its inception in 1978 to 1991. |
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| Nominations may be submitted by individuals, firms or
organizations. The project must have been completed within four years prior to
judging. Making Nominations
Nominations may be made by any organisation or individual, Engineers Australia members,
Divisional Engineering Heritage Groups or their members.
NOTE : Any nomination for any Engineers Australia (including
Divisional) Engineering Excellence Awards in an Environment & Heritage category (or
similar) may be submitted as an entry for the Colin Crisp Award. A letter nominating a
particular project for the Colin Crisp Award signed by the firm/organization which
prepared the Engineering Excellence Award nomination is the only documentation required.
Nominations shall be submitted through the Divisional Engineering Heritage Group in the
Division in which the nominated project is located, or to the Administrator, Engineering
Heritage Australia, 11 National Circuit, Barton, ACT 2600
Entrants should provide two bound copies and one CD-ROM of their entry, together with
any supporting material such as photographs, discs and videos, which must be clearly
labelled.
Nominations will be treated as confidential.
A document providing further detailed information for entrants is available from the
Administrator of EHA.
Form of Nomination
Entries should not be more than 6,000 words or 12 pages in 12 point Arial font
excluding attachments. There is no limitation on the size of attachments. |
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Monash Medal |
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G (HARRY) TRUEMAN |
Harry
Trueman was instrumental in conserving many very significant timber bridges in NSW,
especially the highly visible Pyrmont Bridge in Darling Harbour. For Engineering Heritage
Australia, Harry wrote the Engineering Heritage
& Conservation Guidelines published in 1992, edited the EHA Newsletter for six years, chaired EHA in 1999
and 2000, convened the group that revised the Guide
to the Historic Engineering Plaquing Program, established the EHA website and
continues to manage the EHA Email Forum.
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RAYMOND
L WHITMORE AM |
Professor
Ray Whitmore formed the first engineering heritage panels, initially in Queensland and
then nationally in 1976. His guiding hand helped to lay sound foundations for the
identification, recording, assessment and conservation programs developed and used by
Engineers Australia.
He
has written 39 heritage-related papers, authored six books and edited four more. His
research and assessment skills have been widely sought by a range of organisations.
He
was a key member of EHA's Plaquing Committee (judging panel) for 18 years.
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| 2004 JOHN
F (JACK) ROSS AM |
Jack
Ross has made an outstanding contribution to the collection of artefacts and the recording
of the history of radio broadcasting technology from its early days through to the present
era. In 1976-78 he authored A History of
Telecommunications on Stamps in five volumes, followed by A History of Radio in South Australia 1897-1977.
His major effort was the 1998 self-publication of a 600 page volume Radio Broadcasting Technology: 75 Years of Development
in Australia 1923-1998 which carefully documents developments, manufacturers,
education, research and biographies with 500 historical photographs. He was editor of The Broadcaster for 10 years, and has arranged
extensive displays of vintage artefacts.
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COLIN O'CONNOR |
In
1979 Colin O'Connor was commissioned by the Australian Heritage Commission and the
Institution of Engineers Australia to undertake what is recognized as the definitive
survey of Australia’s historic bridges. This study led Colin to make the work
available to a wider audience in the How to Look at
Bridges booklet and, later, in the book Spanning
Two Centuries: Historic Bridges of Australia. Colin has continued to contribute
significantly to the conservation of heritage bridge structures. His book Roman Bridges was published in 1993 and he is
currently working on The History and Development of
Stone Bridges. The
award commenced in 2003. |
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| 2005 West Coast Wilderness Railway
Tasmania |
The
West Coast Wilderness Railway is a restoration of the original Mt. Lyell Mining and
Railway Co. Ltd. railway, built on the edge of civilization in 1896 to transport copper
concentrates from Queenstown to Strahan for export.The restoration was a major engineering
project with clear attention to heritage and the environment. Its completion offers major
regional development, tourism and local community benefits to the Tasmanian West Coast
region.This large and complex project contains examples of almost every type of
conservation process from preservation and restoration to reconstruction and adaptation;
all managed to a tight time frame and budget. The line was formally re-opened from
Queenstown to Regatta Point on 3 April 2003. |
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| 2005 - Highly
Commended Kyneton stiff-leg derrick crane |
The
stiff-leg derrick crane is located at Wm Thos Jones & Sons, Stonemasons, 11 Piper
Street, Kyneton, Victoria. The crane dates from 1897, marked HW Mould Clyde Forge, South
Melbourne. It is hand winched and is used for lifting and moving blocks of granite and
basalts for general stonework operations such as cutting and polishing.Richard Fooks,
Engineer and Building Practitioner, was engaged by Stonemason Huntly Barton in late 2003
to inspect and assess the structure and mechanical components of the crane and make
recommendations for repair and replacement of specific elements.The crane restoration has
ensured that future generations will be able to see it working in context in a precinct
dating from the Victorian gold rush. |
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