Mike Fordyce
| Mike Fordyce | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1940 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Scottish |
| 🏫 Education | George Heriot's School, University of Edinburgh, University of Leeds, University of Glasgow |
| 💼 Occupation | Engineer |
Mike Fordyce[edit]
Mike Fordyce FIStructE, FIEAust is a British structural engineer born in 1940 in Edinburgh, Scotland but who has lived and worked in Queensland, Australia since 1984[2] [3] [4].
Early Life & Education[edit]
Fordyce went to George Heriot's School, Edinburgh [5] and read Civil Engineering at the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded the Charles Innes Prize [6] in 1960. Immediately after graduating he moved to the University of Leeds to study for a Diploma in Concrete Technology [2].
Career[edit]
After Leeds Fordyce moved to London and joined GKN Reinforcements (a subsidiary of GKN[7] analysing Concrete shell structures. He soon moved on to Lowe & Rodin [8] (now BDP) where he worked on the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. He was the sent to Glasgow to set up an office for Lowe & Rodin and there he took an MEng in Soil Mechanics and Foundation (engineering) at the University of Glasgow [2]. Fordyce next moved to Memphis, Tennessee to develop industrialised housing systems for Operation Breakthrough [9], a US Government housing programme. He returned to Preston, England in 1973 with BDP where he stayed for 11 years in a multi-disciplinary design team. He studied the use of Glassfibre Reinforced Cement (GRC) for the Building Research Establishment and co-wrote a book 'GRC and Buildings' [10] In October 1984 he took his family to Brisbane Australia to work for Cameron McNamara [11] which later merged with Kinhill but then was taken over by Kellogg Brown & Root, KBR (company). Fordyce became Principal Engineer, Project Director and Resource Group Leader for the Civil Structures group in Queensland. He worked on various projects including Townsville Hospital [12], a Customs building in Kiribati, the re-roofing of the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, a bank and a new Chancery for the Australian High Commission in Sri Lanka, two post-independence projects for East Timor and a hospital in Bali after the terrorist bombing in 2002. Fordyce is a Director of CROSS-AUS Ltd (Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety – Australasia) [13]. He was National President of Concrete Institute of Australia in 1995-96 [14] and had an important hand in arranging reciprocal membership between Engineers Australia and the Institution of Structural Engineers. Fordyce was President of the Institution of Structural Engineers [2] [3] [15] [16] in 2004-05 and the first to be based outside the UK. In June 2005 the Magazine of Engineers Australia voted Fordyce as one of the top 100 most influential Australian engineers [17] [18]
Awards & Honours[edit]
- Charles Innes Prize in Civil Engineering, University of Edinburgh [6]
- John Connell Medal Engineers Australia [1]
Selected projects[edit]
- Ealing Broadway Centre, London,
- Townsville Hospital, Queensland, Australia [12]
- Re-roofing of the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh,
- Bank and a new Chancery for the Australian High Commission in Sri Lanka,
- Hospital in Bali after the terrorist bombing in 2002
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "John Connell Award 2009" (PDF).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "The President 2004" (PDF).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Kathy Stansfield interviews Mike Fordyce" (PDF).
- ↑ "Snapshot: Mike Fordyce, Magazine of Engineers Australia (Civil ed.)". 76 (9). Civil Engineers, Australia. September 2004: 17. ISSN 1448-496X.
- ↑ "Former Pupil News Mike Fordyce Class of '57" (PDF).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Charles Innes Prize, University of Edinburgh".
- ↑ "GKN Reinforcements".
- ↑ "Jack Rodin".
- ↑ "Operation Breakthrough".
- ↑ Fordyce, M W; Wodehouse, R G (1983). Glass Fibre Reinforced Cement and Buildings. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0408003957. Search this book on
- ↑ "Cameron McNamara".
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Townsville Hospital, Queensland".
- ↑ "CROSS-AUS".
- ↑ "Past National Council Presidents of Concrete Institute of Australia".
- ↑ "IStructE's shrinking world".
- ↑ "Alumnus elected president of engineering institution". Avenue: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of the University of Glasgow. University of Glasgow. 37: 18. January 2005. ISSN 0950-7167.
- ↑ Top 100 Australia's most infuential engineers. 77. Engineers Australia. June 2005. Search this book on
- ↑ "If you can imagine it engineers make it so".
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